A new study from the University of Connecticut has discovered that rehabilitation to address chronic knee pain may not be targeting all the right muscles.
Neal Glaviano and Sungwan Kim, a Ph.D. student in his lab, recently published their findings in the journal Physical Therapy in Sport.
"It all comes back to there being some potential deficit in the muscle for some reason," Glaviano says. Glaviano and Kim worked with the Brain Imaging Research Center at UConn to conduct MRI scans of 13 female patients with patellofemoral pain. The researchers then worked with Springbok, a company developed by researchers at the University of Virginia, to analyze individual muscle volumes.
While Glaviano and Kim expected to see differences in muscle size in the quads and glutes, that's not what they found. There were no significant differences in the size of these muscles in patients with patellofemoral pain compared to the healthy samples. Glaviano intends to pursue these findings to investigate if rehabilitation interventions for patellofemoral pain can be better tailored and individualized.
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