None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The main purpose of the study is to compare a pain education program with a tendinopathy education program both combined with eccentric exercises to determine which decrease most the pain and increase the most the life quality in sports players with chronic patellar tendinopathy. The study hypothesize that a combined program of education with eccentric exercises will provide better results than an eccentric exercise program alone, and as the chronic patellar tendinopathy is a dysfunctional pain and not exactly a chronic pain, it's been hypothesize that a tendinopathy education program will give better results than a pain education program.
Interventions
Arm 1: Program with explanation of pain (theoretical class about the pain, neuroscience, physiology of pain and how it works the pain) combined with eccentric exercise in a 25 degrees decline board which the participants have to perform for 3 weeks at home.
Arm 2: Program with explanation of tendinopathy (theoretical class about the physiology of the tendon, the function of the patellar tendon, what is the tendinopathy and how it works) combined with eccentric exercise in a 25degrees decline boa
Arm 1: Program with explanation of pain (theoretical class about the pain, neuroscience, physiology of pain and how it works the pain) combined with eccentric exercise in a 25 degrees decline board which the participants have to perform for 3 weeks at home. Arm 2: Program with explanation of tendinopathy (theoretical class about the physiology of the tendon, the function of the patellar tendon, what is the tendinopathy and how it works) combined with eccentric exercise in a 25degrees decline board which the participants have to perform for 3 weeks at home.. Both groups made with sports players from athleticism, volleyball and basketball with chronic patellar tendinopathy. The programs of explanation consist in a group theoretical 1 hour class with the support of a PowerPoint. The programs of eccentric training consist in a first group class of 30 minutes for explain the exercises and the progress of them, and then the participants do the exercises twice a day during 3 weeks with the 25 degrees decline board at home. The exercise consist of 3 sets of 15 repetitions performed during 15 minutes twice daily of a single leg squat stand on the 25 degrees declined board while performing the exercise. The intervention consist in 4 sessions: session 1 complete the test and explanation of pain/tendinopathy, session 2 explanation of the exercise and start of home exercises completed within 1 week of session 1, session 3 occurs three weeks following session 2, and the participants complete the final test, session 4 occurs 1 month following session 3, and the participants complete the monitoring test. All the interventions are executed by experienced physical therapists in a sports center. In order to monitor the adherence when the patients complete the exercises they have to send an okey sign in a message to the physical therapist.
Sponsors
University of Alcala de Henares
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject, Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 46 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Minimum of exercise that each participant must be completing in a normal week: 3 trainings of his/her sport (athletics, basketball, volleyball) per week of 45 minutes each one, chronic patellar tendinopathy, no meniscus injury or muscular injury or articular injury and no pharmacological, medical or physical therapy treatment during the intervention.
Exclusion criteria
Less than 3 trainings/week of less than 45 minutes each one, no chronic patellar tendinopathy, with meniscus injury or muscular injury or articular injury and with pharmacological, medical or physical therapy treatment in the moment that the intervention begins.
Outcome results
None listed