What is it about?
This is a review of the literature looking at rehabilitation interventions directed at the hip muscles in individuals with front of knee pain. It explores many aspects of the rehabilitation intervention, making comparisons with no intervention controls, rehabilitation focused at the thigh muscles and a combination of hip and thigh muscle rehabilitation to thigh muscle rehabilitation on its own.
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Why is it important?
The findings of this review will inform the decisions that a clinician would make when treating this specific group of patients. It also identifies areas of weakness within the delivery of treatment, helping to direct researchers and clinicians in the delivery of more efficacious treatment directed at the hip muscles.
Perspectives
This is a very detailed examination of the current literature exploring interventions directed at the hip. The work has delved deeper in the treatment approaches that where delivered by the individual studies to stimulate a more considered exercise prescription by clinicians, inform future study design by researchers and highlight the specific characteristics that were associated with favourable outcomes. The hope is that this work helps to deliver more effective treatments to this patient group, who are often young and physically active, but are limited in their sport participation by pain.
Mr Simon Lack
Queen Mary University of London
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This page is a summary of: Proximal muscle rehabilitation is effective for patellofemoral pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis, British Journal of Sports Medicine, July 2015, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2015-094723.
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