Live Feedback to Increase Adherence in Adolescents With Patellofemoral Pain

Aalborg University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Disorders; Joint Diseases; Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Feedback on TUT; Other: No feedback on TUT; Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02674841

N-20150070

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigates if live feedback during home-based exercises will improve the ability to perform the exercises with the prescribed time under tension (TUT) per repetition compared with no feedback among adolescents with patellofemoral pain. The hypothesis is that adolescents who receive live feedback from BandCizer™ will have a mean TUT that is significantly closer to the prescribed TUT compared to the group not receiving feedback during the course of the intervention.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 15 to 19 years of age
• Anterior knee pain of non-traumatic origin which is provoked by at least two of the following activities: prolonged sitting with bended knees or kneeling, squatting, running, jumping or ascending or descending stairs
• Tenderness on palpation of the peripatellar borders
• Pain of more than 6 weeks duration
• Worst pain during the previous week ≥ 30 mm on a 100 mm VAS

Exclusion criteria

• Concomitant pain from other structures in the knee (e.g. ligament, tendon or cartilage), the hip or the lumbar spine
• Previous knee surgery
• Patellofemoral instability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Feedback group

Experimental group

Description:

Receives live feedback on TUT and pulling force during exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Feedback on TUT

Other: Exercise

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Receives no feedback on TUT but on pulling force during exercises.

Treatment:

Other: No feedback on TUT

Other: Exercise