TY - JOUR T1 - Is hip strengthening the best treatment option for females with patellofemoral pain? A randomized controlled trial of three different types of exercises. AU - Saad,Marcelo Camargo, AU - Vasconcelos,Rodrigo Antunes de, AU - Mancinelli,Letícia Villani de Oliveira, AU - Munno,Matheus Soares de Barros, AU - Liporaci,Rogério Ferreira, AU - Grossi,Débora Bevilaqua, Y1 - 2018/04/04/ PY - 2017/09/26/received PY - 2018/02/14/revised PY - 2018/03/22/accepted PY - 2018/4/18/pubmed PY - 2019/5/6/medline PY - 2018/4/18/entrez KW - Anterior knee pain KW - Quadriceps and hip muscles. KW - Rehabilitation KW - Step up and down kinematics SP - 408 EP - 416 JF - Brazilian journal of physical therapy JO - Braz J Phys Ther VL - 22 IS - 5 N2 - OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of three types of exercise intervention in patients with patellofemoral pain and to verify the contributions of each intervention to pain control, function, and lower extremity kinematics. METHODS: A randomized controlled, single-blinded trial was conducted. Forty women with patellofemoral pain were randomly allocated into four groups: hip exercises, quadriceps exercises, stretching exercises and a control group (no intervention). Pain (using a visual analog scale), function (using the Anterior Knee Pain Scale), hip and quadriceps strength (using a handheld isometric dynamometer) and measuring lower limb kinematics during step up and down activities were evaluated at baseline and 8 weeks post intervention. RESULTS: All treatment groups showed significant improvements on pain and Anterior Knee Pain Scale after intervention with no statistically significant differences between groups except when compared to the control group. Only hip and quadriceps groups demonstrated improvements in muscle strength and knee valgus angle during the step activities. CONCLUSION: Hip strengthening exercises were not more effective for pain relief and function compared to quadriceps or stretching exercises in females with patellofemoral pain. Only hip and quadriceps groups were able to decrease the incidence of dynamic valgus during step-down activity. This study was approved by Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry registration number: RBR-6tc7mj (http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/rg/RBR-6tc7mj/). SN - 1809-9246 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/29661570/Is_hip_strengthening_the_best_treatment_option_for_females_with_patellofemoral_pain_A_randomized_controlled_trial_of_three_different_types_of_exercises_ L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1413-3555(17)30474-4 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -