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Immediate Effects of Ankle Mobilization on Dorsiflexion Range of Motion in Women With Patellofemoral Pain.

NCT03281421 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 117

Last updated 2019-02-22

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Summary

Anterior Knee Pain or Patellofemoral Pain (PFP) is one of the most common disorders that affecting knee in the physically active population, being a condition that typically presents as diffuse knee pain in the anterior region and retro- or peri-patellar area, mainly in activities that increase compression force in patellofemoral joint, such as squatting, running, stair ascent and descent. The overall prevalence of PFP has been reported as between 15-45% of the population, and its incidence is higher among women. The literature cites as etiology of PFP the ocorrence of dysfunctions in the local (knee), proximal (trunk, pelvis and hip complex) and distal (ankle and foot regions) factores. Actually, there is a lack of studies that investigate the interventions influences on distal factors in outcomes clinical in persons with PFP. Thus, the aim of this study is analyze the effect of ankle mobilization techiniques in ankle dorsiflexion range of motion closed kinetic chain in women with patellofemoral pain and with dorsoflexion restriction.

Conditions

  • Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Manual Therapy

The manual therapy intervention, through the technique of mobilization with movement in the ankle joint (following the specific sense direction of the group), will be performed in a protocol that consists of four sets of five repetitions, with rest time between series of one minute.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidade Federal do Ceara

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gabriel PL Almeida, MSc · Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-14
Primary Completion
2018-03-31
Completion
2018-09-25

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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