Tibiofemoral Mobilization in Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
NCT ID: NCT04225000
Last Updated: 2020-01-23
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
52 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2019-06-15
2020-01-07
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The main symptom of PFPS is anterior knee pain or pain around and behind patella during patellofemoral joint loading activities. The pathophysiology of PFPS is multifactorial. External factors; change in training intensity and frequency, training surfaces and inappropriate shoe wear, while intrinsic factors includes muscle and soft tissue imbalance and malalignment of lower extremity and poor biomechanics of foot. In PFPS patients' dynamic valgus and patellar maltracking is common. Decrease strength of hip abductors, abnormal rear foot eversion can cause dynamic valgus. Further other muscles imbalance is also associated with PFPS i.e. vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, quadriceps, hamstring and iliotibial tract.
Correction of biomechanical imbalance and decreased anterior knee pain as therapeutic exercise has already been shown to be effective in the treatment of PFPS for pain and function. Conservative treatment involves a multimodal physiotherapy approach including patient education, activity modification, neuromuscular electric stimulation on quadriceps, therapeutic ultrasound, biofeedback, exercises for enhancing the activity of Vastus Medialis Obliquus (VMO) muscle, lower extremity-strengthening exercises, and proximal stabilization, stretching exercises on tight structures, bracings, foot orthoses, patellar mobilization and taping techniques. Patellofemoral pain syndrome is treated through conservative methods from long period of time but
tibiofemoral mobilization is not practiced very much while standard mobilization is patellar mobilization, it can be painful to mobilize patella. So the goal of this study is determine the effect of reciprocal joint mobilization i.e. tibiofemoral joint mobilization in patellofemoral joint pain syndrome and enhance the awareness of this in practice.
Literature review A systematic and evidence based search of relevant literature was performed by utilizing PubMed and Google Scholar as search engines. Search term for the initial literature review was patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, Tibiofemoral mobilization, prevalence of patellofemoral pain syndrome, causes of PFPS, pathophysiology of PFPS, treatment option for PFPS, conservative treatment of PFPS, short term effect of Tibiofemoral mobilization, exercise protocol of PFPS. The search was limited to papers in English preferably published since 2010 with full text available. Different studies were available regarding PFPS but limited data were available regarding tibiofemoral mobilization in PFPS.
A consensus statement (2018) on exercise therapy and physical interventions and mentioned that it is recommended that exercise targeting the hip and knee is a key component of management for all patients with patellofemoral pain, particularly when used in combination.
A consensus statement (2016) from the 4th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat, that exercises are best to treat PFPS in short medium and long term goal and also mentioned that instead of only giving exercises of knee alone if combined hip and knee exercises would be given to patient it will show great effect.
The short-term effects of Movement With Mobilization (MWM) and Kinesio Tapping practices performed in addition to the exercises proved to be similar to one another.
The tibiofemoral joint manipulation with exercises for home plane give a successful results in treating patellofemoral pain syndrome.
A systemic review mentioned that the different combinations of Manual Therapy (MT) and physical therapy analyzed in this review suggest that giving more emphasis to proximal stabilization and full kinetic chain treatments in PFPS will help better alleviation of symptoms.
Another study concluded that interventions directed at the lumbopelvic region did not have immediate effects on quadriceps force output or activation. Muscle fatigue might have contributed to decreased force output and activation over 1 hour of testing.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Exercise Group
Hip \& Knee Exercises
Exercise Group
Control group included 6 different exercises to treat participants having PFPS. These exercises included Semi squat with hip adduction and internal rotation, Quads isometrics, Straight Leg Raise (SLR) Hamstring Stretch, Terminal knee extension with elastic band , Adductor squeeze in crook lying (squeeze the ball), Hip abduction in standing with elastic band. These all exercises were advised to perform 3 x 15 Repetitions with 10 sec hold. This exercise protocol was for 4 weeks and 3 sessions per week.
Mobilization Group
Tibiofemoral joint anterior-posterior mobilization combined Hip \& Knee Exercises
Mobilization Group
Experimental group included Anterior-Posterior (AP) tibiofemoral joint mobilization and all 6 exercises suggested controlled group for treating participants having PFPS; 3 sessions of mobilizations per week and total 4 weeks.
These exercises included Semi squat with hip adduction and internal rotation, Quads isometrics, Straight Leg Raise (SLR) Hamstring Stretch, Terminal knee extension with elastic band , Adductor squeeze in crook lying (squeeze the ball), Hip abduction in standing with elastic band. Theses all exercises were advised to perform 3 x 15 Repetitions with 10 sec hold. This protocol was for 4 weeks and 3 sessions per week.
Interventions
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Exercise Group
Control group included 6 different exercises to treat participants having PFPS. These exercises included Semi squat with hip adduction and internal rotation, Quads isometrics, Straight Leg Raise (SLR) Hamstring Stretch, Terminal knee extension with elastic band , Adductor squeeze in crook lying (squeeze the ball), Hip abduction in standing with elastic band. These all exercises were advised to perform 3 x 15 Repetitions with 10 sec hold. This exercise protocol was for 4 weeks and 3 sessions per week.
Mobilization Group
Experimental group included Anterior-Posterior (AP) tibiofemoral joint mobilization and all 6 exercises suggested controlled group for treating participants having PFPS; 3 sessions of mobilizations per week and total 4 weeks.
These exercises included Semi squat with hip adduction and internal rotation, Quads isometrics, Straight Leg Raise (SLR) Hamstring Stretch, Terminal knee extension with elastic band , Adductor squeeze in crook lying (squeeze the ball), Hip abduction in standing with elastic band. Theses all exercises were advised to perform 3 x 15 Repetitions with 10 sec hold. This protocol was for 4 weeks and 3 sessions per week.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Anterior or retropatellar knee pain on at least 2 of the following activities: prolonged sitting, climbing stairs, squatting, running, kneeling, and hopping/jumping.
* Presence of 2 of the following clinical criteria on assessment: pain during apprehension test, pain during the patellar compression test, and crepitation during the compression test.
Exclusion Criteria
* History of patellar dislocation or subluxation, malalignment, or ligament laxity
* Spinal referred pain
* History of other abnormalities such as leg length inequalities (.2 cm)
* Medication as a part of the treatment
* Previous physical therapy or acupuncture treatment for the knee within the previous 30 days.
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Riphah International University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Saira Waqqar, PP-DPT
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Riphah International University
Locations
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Lady Reading Hospital
Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Countries
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References
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Collins NJ, Barton CJ, van Middelkoop M, Callaghan MJ, Rathleff MS, Vicenzino BT, Davis IS, Powers CM, Macri EM, Hart HF, de Oliveira Silva D, Crossley KM. 2018 Consensus statement on exercise therapy and physical interventions (orthoses, taping and manual therapy) to treat patellofemoral pain: recommendations from the 5th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat, Gold Coast, Australia, 2017. Br J Sports Med. 2018 Sep;52(18):1170-1178. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099397. Epub 2018 Jun 20.
Briani RV, Pazzinatto MF, De Oliveira Silva D, Azevedo FM. Different pain responses to distinct levels of physical activity in women with patellofemoral pain. Braz J Phys Ther. 2017 Mar-Apr;21(2):138-143. doi: 10.1016/j.bjpt.2017.03.009. Epub 2017 Mar 17.
Crossley KM, van Middelkoop M, Callaghan MJ, Collins NJ, Rathleff MS, Barton CJ. 2016 Patellofemoral pain consensus statement from the 4th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat, Manchester. Part 2: recommended physical interventions (exercise, taping, bracing, foot orthoses and combined interventions). Br J Sports Med. 2016 Jul;50(14):844-52. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096268. Epub 2016 May 31. No abstract available.
Santos TR, Oliveira BA, Ocarino JM, Holt KG, Fonseca ST. Effectiveness of hip muscle strengthening in patellofemoral pain syndrome patients: a systematic review. Braz J Phys Ther. 2015 May-Jun;19(3):167-76. doi: 10.1590/bjpt-rbf.2014.0089. Epub 2015 May 29.
Demirci S, Kinikli GI, Callaghan MJ, Tunay VB. Comparison of short-term effects of mobilization with movement and Kinesiotaping on pain, function and balance in patellofemoral pain. Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc. 2017 Dec;51(6):442-447. doi: 10.1016/j.aott.2017.09.005. Epub 2017 Oct 17.
Lantz JM, Emerson-Kavchak AJ, Mischke JJ, Courtney CA. TIBIOFEMORAL JOINT MOBILIZATION IN THE SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME: A CASE REPORT. Int J Sports Phys Ther. 2016 Jun;11(3):450-61.
Fatimah I, Waqqar S. Effects of tibiofemoral mobilization in patients of Patellofemoral pain syndrome. J Pak Med Assoc. 2021 Nov;71(11):2506-2510. doi: 10.47391/JPMA.04-585.
Other Identifiers
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REC/00567 Ishrat
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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