Taping and Patellar Maltraction in PFPS Patients

Launched by ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY · Dec 30, 2020

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This is a single blinded randomized controlled trial, will be conducted at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt UniversityYenimahalle Education and Research Hospital. Evaluations regarding the parameters and inclusion criteria at the stage of diagnosis will be carried out by the Specialist Physician, exercise therapy and taping practices by the Specialist Physiotherapist, and the MRI measurements by the Specialist Radiologist. Fixed probability stratified randomization method will be preferred in order to ensure proportional gender distribution in the formation of groups and participants will be divided...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Presence of anterior knee pain lasting more than 6 weeks
• • Anterior or retropatellar knee pain is present in at least two activities (stair descending, stair climbing, squatting, running, jumping, sitting for a long time
• • Presence of malalignment of patellofemoral joint in MRI examination \[Bisect offset index (BOİ) ≥57 and / or patellar tilt angle (PTA) ≥15\]
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • presence of knee trauma history and/or previous knee surgery
• • presence limitation in knee joint range of motion
• • presence of meniscopathy or lesion in knee ligaments
• • presence of patellar subluxation or dislocation
• • presence of a neuromuscular (upper or lower motor neuron lesions), cardiovascular or rheumatological disease
• • pregnancy status
• • presence of MRI contraindications