Effect of treadmill running on pain level of patients with anterior knee pain syndrome

Anterior knee pain is pain that occurs in the front and center of the knee and has a high prevalence, which is necessary to study the therapeutic effect of different methods on the pain of this disease. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of treadmill use on pain in patients with anterior knee pain syndrome.

This study was performed on 136 patients with anterior knee pain syndrome (68 patients in the treadmill group and 68 patients in the control group). After recording demographic information and clinical notes, patients were randomly assigned to two groups and pain was recorded after intervention in both groups. The statistical test of Kai Square, Mann-Whitney and independent t was used to compare the data.

The results of our study showed that the difference between mean pain score before the intervention and in the first week was not statistically significant among patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome in both treadmill and control groups, but in the fourth and eighth week in patients with treadmill group it was less significance than the control group, and this difference remained significant in people under the age of 25 with a BMI greater than 25.

Due to the prevalence of patellofemoral pain syndrome, especially in young people, additional treadmill treatment should be done along with standard treatment for patients to improve the patients’ pain in short term and increase the quality of life of them.