Effect of Short Foot Exercise in Treatment of Patients With Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Short foot exercise; Other: Hip and Knee focused exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05383781

P.T.REC/012/003641

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purposes of the study

To investigate the effect of adding Short foot exercise on patellofemoral pain syndrome on knee Pain, Function, Balance and abductors, quadriceps Muscle strength.

Enrollment: 28 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed as PFPS
• Pain elicited at least by two of the following four tests; (i) Isometric muscle contraction with slight bent knee,(ii) palpation of the patellofemoral joint line, (iii) patellar compression against the femoral bone (iv) active resisted knee extension.
• Psychological and mentally stable
• No previous knee surgery, except for diagnostic arthroscopy.
• No current knee pathologies (e.g. osteoarthritis)
• Navicular drop test more than 10 mm which indicated pronated foot

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects will be excluded if they don't meet the inclusion criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Hip and Knee exercise group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Individuals in this group will perform exercises for the Hip and knee only.

Treatment:

Other: Hip and Knee focused exercises

Hip , Knee exercise and SFE group

Experimental group

Description:

Individuals in this group will perform exercises for Hip , knee and also short foot exercise

Treatment:

Other: Short foot exercise

Other: Hip and Knee focused exercises