Close Kinetic Chain Exercise With Kinesio Taping in the Management of Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2017-08-17
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators will include patients attending outpatient clinic in the area of Orthopedics and Traumatology of our hospital with a diagnosis of unilateral Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome.

Two groups would be made, the control group will receive treatment with acetaminophen and physical therapy rehabilitation, closed chain exercises and stretches at home intended for the strengthening of quadriceps, abductors and internal rotators of the hip for the duration of six weeks. The experimental treatment group will receive the above plus the application of the technique NUCAP Medical Upper Knee Spider ® Kinesio taping on the affected knee. Both groups will be evaluated by an external consultation. They will be assessed by the Tegner Activity Scale, the Kujala score of the WOMAC and visual analog scale (VAS) for pain assessment; these scales will be applied at the beginning, third and sixth week

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
• Treatments: Acetaminophen

Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• Age between fifteen and thirty-five years,

• Presenting unilateral PFPS with six months of evolution,

• Presenting anterior or retro knee pain that presents itself when undergoing two or more of the following activities:

(squatting, running,kneeling, jumping,climbing stairs,physically active patients, with at least thirty minutes of physical activity at least three times per week.)

Exclusion criteria:

• Patients with previous knee surgeries,

• Chronic pain with more than one year of evolution,

• Pregnancy or suspected pregnancy

• Application of intra-articular steroids in the three months prior to their evaluation

• Patients with meniscal injuries

• Ligament or intra-articular knee structures

• Degenerative diseases such as diabetes

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Osteoarthritis of the knee, hip or ankle

• History of dislocation or subluxation of patella

• Osgood Schlatter syndrome

• Patellar tendinitis or quadriceps.