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APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
卷 11, 期 18, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11188748
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patellar tendinopathy; focus extracorporeal shock wave therapy; ultrasound; imaging analysis; blood flow; sports; athlete; overuse; treatment; morphology
The study showed that f-ESWT can reduce rest pain in patients with patellar tendinopathy, indicating a potential analgesic effect of the treatment.
We aimed to investigate the changes caused by focused extracorporeal shock wave pain therapy (f-ESWT) in patients with patellar tendinopathy by means of ultrasound imaging. We included 18 knees from 11 college athletes with patellar tendinopathy. We assessed the tendon thickness and blood flow of the patellar tendon using ultrasound imaging, rest pain using NRS and tenderness using a pressure pain gauge. We recorded four measurements: immediately before f-ESWT (PRE 1) and after f-ESWT (POST 1) and two weeks after the first irradiation before f-ESWT (PRE 2) and after f-ESWT (POST 2). Only the resting pain in both the first and second irradiations showed a significant difference immediately before and after the treatment. In terms of pain changes after two weeks later, we observed significant differences in the resting pain between PRE 1 and PRE 2 and also in the resting pain, tenderness and blood flow area between PRE 1 and POST 2. No significant difference was seen in the tendon thickness. We concluded that pain in the patellar tendon at rest decreased before and after irradiation, suggesting that f-ESWT may have influenced the nociceptive structures and had an analgesic effect.
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