Effect of Patellar Realignment Training in Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Objective: PFPS is a common musculoskeletal dysfunction presenting with anterior knee pain. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether implementation of realignment training can achieve early pain and functional ability improvements in patients with PFPSMethod: 37 females, 20-45 year of age with PFPS, were randomly assigned into two treatment Group 1 received realignment training in addition to conventional treatment protocol whereas Group 2 as a control group received routine treatment for 4 weeks. The outcome measures was Visual analogue scale (VAS), range of motion, manual muscle testing (MMT), Q angle, postural assessment.Results: The results obtained show that both the groups showed significant improvement in the outcome variables and therefore aids with early correction of dysfunction. Within group analysis showed statistically more significant improvement in all outcome measures for Group 1.Conclusion: This Is a cross sectional study comparing effect of realignment training and the conventional treatment protocol in PFPS on 37 total subjects. We found that realignment training showed significant improvement in the outcome variable concluding that it improves functional ability and reduce pain. It can be further concluded that Conventional treatment can be more efficacious if combined with realignment training.