Rehabilitation effects of quadriceps stretch training on anterior knee pain

ObjectiveTo investigate the rehabilitation effects of quadriceps stretch training on symptoms and different incentives of anterior knee pain(AKP).

MethodsForty-two patients with AKP were randomly divided into the control group and observation group(21 cases in each group).Two groups were treated with routine rehabilitation method, and the observation group was additionally treated with quadriceps stretch training.The Kujala score(Anterior Knee Pain Scale, AKPS) and VAS scores of common functional movement-induced pain were evaluated before and after treatment.

ResultsThe differences of AKPS scores, and pain VAS scores of daily life, knee-bending sedentary, up stairs, down stairs and squatting, jogging movements between two groups were not statistically significant before treatment(P>0.05).The differences of the AKPS scores and VAS scores in control group between before treatment and after 6 weeks of treatment were not statistically significant(P>0.05).After treatment, the AKPS score in the observation group increased compared with before treatment(P < 0.05), and which was significantly higher than that in control group(P < 0.01).Except for the knee-bending sedentary, the other items' scores in observation group after treatment decreased compared with before treatment(P < 0.05), and which was significantly lower than that in control group(P < 0.01).

ConclusionsThe quadriceps stretch training has a good effect on the improvement of clinical pain and function limitation in AKP patients, and also has a positive intervention effect on common incentives, so it can be used as the choice of clinical rehabilitation treatment for AKP patients.