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NCT Number: NCT02624245

The Movement Control Training Associated With Conventional Physical Therapy is More Effective Than Conventional Physical Therapy Alone in Pain and Functional Performance?

Assess pain, performance function, hip and knee strength and kinematics of trunk and lower limbs during single leg hop test after movement control training associated to hip and knee muscle strengthening.

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Key information

Conditions

Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome Joint Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases

Age range

18 year–35 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Universidade Nove de Julho

São Paulo, 02020000, Brazil

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Sedentary women,
  • Previous knee pain last 3 months in at least two of the following activities: sitting for long periods, walk up or down stairs, squat, running and jumping

Exclusion criteria

  • Lower limb surgery,
  • Patella displacement
  • Knee instability
  • Heart or locomotor disorders which might influence the evaluation

Treatment and study plan

Conventional physical therapy

Other

Other names: hip abductors, lateral hip rotators and knee extensors strengthing exercises with and without weightbearing

Primary outcomes

  1. Pain

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    NRPS Score

  2. Functional Performance

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Single leg hop test distance

Secondary outcomes

  1. Strength of hip and knee extensor muscles measured through hand-held dynamometer

    Time frame: 4 weeks

  2. 3D kinematic range of motion of hip adduction during single leg hop test

    Time frame: 4 weeks

  3. 3D kinematic maximum angular value of hip adduction during single leg hop test

    Time frame: 4 weeks

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Nove de Julho

Other

Registry information

Acronym: MCTACPTMECPTA

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2015
First posted
Dec 8, 2015
Registry last updated
Dec 8, 2015

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