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Effect of Dynamic Taping on Landing Kinematics and Kinetics in Volleyball Players With Symptoms of Patellar Tendinopathy

NCT04480905 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 23

Last updated 2022-10-28

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Summary

Patellar tendinopathy (PT) is the common cause of anterior knee pain, particularly in sports required repeated jumping and landing, such as volleyball. PT clinically presents as anterior knee pain and localized tenderness at the patellar tendon. To evaluate the severity of symptoms of PT, the VISA-P questionnaire is a self-administered, well-validated, and widespread assessment tool. In the long term, athletes would land with knee avoidance patterns and transfer the load to the hip joint caused further hip-related injury. Lower extremities eccentric exercise has been proven the most beneficial treatment of PT. However, the course lasts for three to six months. For athletes who are still in season, it's difficult to get the immediate effect. A newly developed biomechanical taping, dynamic tape, considered to be beneficial for load absorption during muscle eccentric contraction during landing and further normalized the lower extremities load contribution by its viscoelasticity property. However, no past research has confirmed this effect.

Therefore, the aims of the study are to translate the English VISA-P questionnaire to the Chinese and to study the reliability and validity of the Chinese version. In the next part, the investigators investigate the different landing biomechanics between individuals with and without patellar tendinopathy and establish the reliability of different landing tasks, and further explore whether the dynamic tape alters landing biomechanics in volleyball players.

Conditions

  • Biomechanical Phenomena

Interventions

DEVICE

Dynamic tape

The dynamic tape will stick from anterior inferior iliac spine to the middle of the tibia in supine and full knee extension position

DEVICE

Sham tape

The 3M™ Soft Cloth Tape will stick from anterior inferior iliac spine to the middle of the tibia in supine and full knee extension position

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yi-Fen Shih, PhD · Department of Physical Therapy and Assistive Technology, National Yang-Ming University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-20
Primary Completion
2022-07-01
Completion
2022-07-01

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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