The effectiveness of pain neuroscience education in the treatment of recreational marathon runners with chronic running related knee injuries
- Conditions
- Musculoskeletal Diseases
- Registration Number
- PACTR202209718136908
- Lead Sponsor
- Tyren Naidoo
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
•Signed informed consent.
•Participants aged 18 to 65 years (Knechtle and Nikolaidis 2018; Larsen et al. 2020).
•Participants who are male or female with symptomatic chronic knee pain (greater than 3 months duration).
•Participants with a weekly training volume between 30 and 80km/week (Rasmussen et al. 2013).
•Participants who had completed 2 or more marathon events within the past 2 years (virtual and non-virtual).
•Participants with a score greater than 40 on the central sensitization inventory scale (CSI) (Mayer et al. 2012).
Exclusion Criteria
•Professional and elite marathon runners (Rüst et al. 2011).
•Participants who have had previous total knee replacement or any other lower limb surgery within the past six months of the affected knee, co-existing inflammatory, metabolic or neurologic disease (Messier et al. 2008; Lluch et al. 2018).
•Participants who have contraindications to chiropractic care and PNE.
•Participants who have previously received chiropractic care and/or PNE can require a 3 month wash out period before they can be eligible to enter the study.
•Participation in other pain trials prior (3 months) to recruitment.
•Lack of the ability to adhere to the protocol, cognitive impairment, illiteracy or unable to speak English (Lluch et al. 2018).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measure the difference between manipulation and Pain neuroscience education combined<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measure the difference with manipulation alone.