Comparison of New Technique Taping and Placebo Taping on Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome: A Randomised Controlled Study

Patello Femoral Syndrome Clinical Trial

Official title:

New Technique For Taping on Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04760158
• Other study ID #: 2014/06/02
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 5, 2019
• Est. completion date: January 20, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: February 2021
• Source: Hacettepe University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

We included in this study 42 individuals with patellofemoral pain syndrome. 39 of them were completed six weeks of exercise and other groups. We randomized them into three groups. One group is the star technique which is a new patellar taping technique. Another group is placebo taping and the third group is only the exercise group. Both groups performed exercises three times a week for six weeks. Three groups were assessed with knee and hip muscles strength, shortness, performance tests, pain severity in the activity, night, rest, and knee-buckling, and Kujala Scale before and after 4-week exercises.

Description:

Based on previous studies those participants who met the following inclusion criteria were invited to participate in the study: i) insidious onset of anterior knee pain with a duration greater than 4 weeks; ii) pain provoked by at least two of the following situations: prolonged sitting or kneeling, squatting, running, hopping or ascending or descending stairs; iii) age ranged between 18-60 years.

Participants were excluded in cases of the clinical history of patellofemoral dislocation or subluxation; knee osteoarthritis; injury or pain from the hip, lumbar spine, or other knee structures (meniscus, ligaments, bursa, synovial plica, infrapatellar fat); traumatic lesions of soft tissues or previous orthopedic surgery in lower limbs; having received knee injections of corticosteroids or hyaluronic acid; cognition or impaired communication; being involved in an ongoing medical-legal dispute; using Canadien or walker; can not walk independently and having an allergy to taping.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 39
• Est. completion date: January 20, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 10, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• insidious onset of anterior knee pain with a duration greater than 4 weeks;

• self-reported patellofemoral pain intensity =30 mm on the 100 mm Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)

• pain provoked by at least two of the following situations: prolonged sitting or kneeling, squatting, running, hopping, or ascending or descending stairs;

• age ranged between 18-60 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

• the clinical history of patellofemoral dislocation or subluxation; knee osteoarthritis; injury or pain from the hip, lumbar spine, or other knee structures (meniscus, ligaments, bursa, synovial plica, infrapatellar fat)

-); traumatic lesions of soft tissues or previous orthopedic surgery in lower limbs; having received knee injections of corticosteroids or hyaluronic acid

• cognition or impaired communication

• being involved in an ongoing medical-legal dispute

• using Canadien or walker; can not walk independently

• having an allergy to taping

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Patello Femoral Syndrome
• Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
• Syndrome

Intervention

Other:
• Exercise
Participants of this study exercised strengthening and stretching 3 days a week for 6 weeks

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Kirikkale University	Kirikkale	Yahsihan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hacettepe University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	comparision of the effects of new patellar taping technique and placebo taping on performance	we analyzed and compared the performance test outcomes.	6 weeks

External Links

•   Effects of exercise combined with whole body vibration in patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome: a randomised-controlled clinical trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 21, 582 (2020).
•   Effects of Posterior X Taping on Movement Quality and Knee Pain Intensity during Forward-Step-Down in Patients with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
•   Systematic Review of the Effect of Taping Techniques on Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
•   The Effect of Kinesio Taping on Anterior Knee Pain Consistent With Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome: A Critically Appraised Topic