Examination of Strengths Exercise in Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome with emphasize on ‎Weakness, Lumbar-Pelvic Girdle Muscles and Quadriceps: Narrative Review Articles ‎‎2010-2020‎

Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome is a common type of musculoskeletal disorder of the knee with a variety of therapeutic approaches, including surgery, kinesio taping, exercise therapy, physiotherapy, orthosis, and prosthesis. The aim of this study was to investigate the examination of strengths exercise performed on Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome with emphasis on muscle weakness.

The present article is a narrative review that with a systematic electronic search of databases (Google Scholar, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Magiran PubMed and ISC) applied to download related articles from 2010 to 2020. Keywords were “Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome”, “Strength Training”, and “Proximal Training for PFPS”.

After reviewing 324 articles, 64 related articles on exercise therapy were found. After reviewing the articles in terms of the quality of the paper, 17 articles that reviewed the strengthening exercise program looked at muscle weakness in people with patellofemoral pain syndrome, selected and their effect on improving pain and performance in people with patellar pain were investigated.

Strengths exercise has been shown to be effective in improving pain and performance in people with patellofemoral pain syndrome, but exercise that not only strengthens the muscles in the knee area but also strengthens the muscles in the lumbar-pelvic girdle showed more improvement than exercises that only focused on strengthening of the muscles of the knee joint.