Treatment for Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome Using Knee Abduction Moment-Reducing Footwear
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 36
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Knee joint internal abduction moments of force during running at 4m/s
研究概览
简要总结
Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is the most common running injury and is believed to be associated with higher than normal knee joint loading. Footwear has been developed that may decrease these knee loads in healthy subjects, but their effects on patients with PFPS are unknown. In this study, we aim to test the effects of such footwear on patients with PFPS. We hypothesize that patients who receive the footwear intervention will show a decrease in knee joint loading, and consequently will show improvements in subjective levels of perceived knee pain over a period of six weeks compared to a control condition.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 50 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Male or Female between 18 and 45 years of age.
- •Have been diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) by a physician.
- •Have nontraumatic unilateral and/or bilateral peripatellar or retropatellar knee pain.
- •Patellofemoral knee pain with and/or after activity.
- •Inactivity patellofemoral pain and/or stiffness, especially with sitting with knees held in flexed posture.
- •Peripatellar tenderness ± mild inferior patellar pole tenderness.
- •Run at least 15km per week.
- •Are heel-toe runners (as opposed to forefoot strikers).
排除标准
- •Are currently, or have previously, participated in any other forms of treatment for their knee pain.
- •Significant articular or periarticular effusion or bursitis.
- •Significant joint line tenderness.
- •Intra-articular ligamentous instability.
- •Patellar apprehension.
- •Have undergone any form of knee surgery or arthroscopy.
- •Have any other neuromuscular, musculoskeletal or cardiovascular conditions
结局指标
主要结局
Knee joint internal abduction moments of force during running at 4m/s
时间窗: First day of joining the study
Motion analysis trials will be conducted on each subject with both the control and intervention footwear. Inverse dynamics calculations will reveal the internal joint loading for each subject. Knee joint moments will be compared within subjects for each footwear condition.
次要结局
- Change in subjective levels of perceived knee pain over six weeks(Upon initial recruitment to the study, and once per week for six weeks thereafter)
研究者
Ryan Lewinson
Ryan T. Lewinson
University of Calgary