Patellar Tendinopathy Conservative Treatments: A Review of Recent High-Quality Evidence

Howe Liu^*
*Correspondence: Howe Liu, Department of Intensive Physical Therapy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA, Email:

Keywords

Knee pain • Physical therapy • Rehabilitation • Tendon injury

INTRODUCTION

Included were 22 randomised controlled trials (n = 22) examining the effects of physical interventions, soft tissue methods, and exercise treatment. The outcomes demonstrate that exercise therapy is the most successful. Despite the prevalence of eccentric exercise, extremely promising programmes for progressive tendon-loading exercise treatment have just lately emerged. The interaction between these stressors, such as training load, psychological well-being, and recuperation, can not only affect an athlete's performance but is also essential for the prevention of injury and disease [1]. Athletes are subject to a variety of internal and external stressors. Due to additional pressures including various sporting commitments, school, social connections, and physical growth, this relationship becomes progressively more complex in young athletes [2]. Given the many stresses that young people experience, it stands to reason that monitoring goals for young people may differ from those for elite athletes. Both situations aim to protect athletes' wellbeing and ensure that they are given the best chance possible to recuperate so as to avoid harm. Monitoring should help long-term athletes who are young athletes.

Methodology

The effect of occupational footwear on physical task performance and the risk of musculoskeletal injury were examined in published academic works, and data from those works were identified and synthesised. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews served as the protocol's guide [3-5].

Discussion

The absence of studies comparing work footwear to specific job task performances is one of the reviews' limitations. It remains to be seen how the use of specific occupational footwear (in this case, a minimalist style boot) affects real physical work performance, even if metrics like energy expenditure and respiratory exchange ratios, etc., were measured and found to improve with its use [6]. In addition, only three of the 50 studies that met the requirements for this evaluation expressly examined how footwear affects occupational tasks.

Conclusion

Given that the majority of research on training loads monitoring has been done on male adult athletes, which makes it inapplicable to female child athletes, it is crucial to highlight unique conclusions, practical applications, and research gaps for the monitoring of young female athletes. A trustworthy and convenient method must be utilised to track and monitor menstrual cycles in young female athletes. Through wellness questionnaires, it is advised in this demographic to use a counting back method along with instruction about tracking symptoms in relation to different times of their cycle. This might be able to offer both a retrospective and a prospective insight into how each person's menstrual cycle affects their capacity for training and recovery.

Conflict of Interest

None.

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