Summary

In the contemporary society, the patellofemoral joint pain syndrome is very common, and can take seriously effect on people's daily life and sports, the extracorporeal shock wave is a new technique of rehabilitation treatment, studying the extracorporeal shock wave for patellofemoral joint pain syndrome patients whether it is effective .

Abstract

Purpose:To discuss and study the effect of patellofemoral joint pain syndrome with the rest pain and pain using of extracorporeal shock wave therapy compared with common anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs in patients .

Methods

in the orthopaedics and sports medicine outpatient department, 36 patients with patellofemoral joint pain syndrome were randomly divided into experimental group and control group, 18 of the experimental group and 18 of control group. The experimental group’s patients used the extracorporeal shock wave to treat the pain site, once a week, shocking with 2000 times once, the impact strength based on the patients pain VAS score ,the score should be less than 6 .And 3 weeks for treatment .In the process of treatment with normal life activities, stop high intensity exercises such as running, long jump, high jump and so on .The control group taking conventional anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs such as loxoprofen sodium pieces for 3 weeks, the same normal life and activity, stop high intensity exercises such as running, long jump, high jump and so on .After 3 weeks ,the two groups respectively evaluate the pain score ,including the rest pain and the pain after exercise.

Results

the comparison between two groups before treatment was no statistically significant difference (P > 0.05). After treatment for 3 weeks, the two groups improved significantly both the rest pain and kinesalgia compared with before, and the VAS pain score lower than before (P < 0.05).After 3 weeks for treatment, the experimental group was better than control group with the rest pain and kinesalgia, the experimental group VAS pain score was lower than the control group (P < 0.05).
Conclusion:using extracorporeal shock wave to treat the patients with patellofemoral joint pain syndrome ,and the effect of the rest pain and motion pain is better than conventional anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs patients, using extracorporeal shock wave treatment more effective.