Patellar syndrome: how to regain knee mobility?
What treatment for patellar syndrome should be used to restore knee mobility?
Patellar syndrome: how to regain knee mobility?
Knee pain can have several causes. They are often the result of a little known but very common syndrome: patellar syndrome. The reason for this is a lack of muscle tone, which is a common problem in our modern lifestyles. The good news is that a lack of muscle tone can usually be worked on without major intervention.
Let's find out more about the syndrome, its causes and the relevant treatments for this knee pathology.
What is patellar syndrome?
Patellar syndrome, also known as patellofemoral syndromeis linked to a lack of muscle tone in most cases. The weakened muscle unbalances the function of the patella. This leads to overloading of the patella cartilage. This leads to patellofemoral friction syndrome.
Patellar syndrome is most often characterised by pain in thefront of the knee (at thepatellofemoral joint) caused by this friction. This pain is particularly noticeable during sports, when climbing up or down stairs. It can also be felt when sitting for a long time (the syndrome is also known as cinema syndrome).
The syndrome is often caused by prolonged inactivity, such as sitting at a desk for long hours, travelling a lot in a car or plane. Also due to fatigue of the quadriceps in older people. But it can also be due to trauma during repeated movements: stepping, cycling, running on hard ground, frequent use of stairs, etc.
In rarer cases, it can also be caused by amedical history. Untreated meniscus injury, surgery, long-term sprain or fracture, or previous deformities (patella bi partita, X-knee, flatfoot syndrome).
Symptomatic pain is also often accompanied by other symptoms of discomfort:
- A feeling ofinstability in the knee, i.e. the feeling that the knee gives way when loaded
- A feeling of a locked knee
- Cracking or squeaking inside the knee
- Or, in some cases, swelling.
What are the treatments?
Treatment of patellar syndrome may begin with a prescription for rest from sport or from the activity that triggered the syndrome. It is important to allow time for rehabilitation to strengthen the muscle before resuming strenuous activity. The activity should be resumed gradually and without risk.
The heart of treatment for this syndrome is rehabilitation. At Allyane, we use an innovative method of neuromotor rehabilitation. Repeated knee pain can lead the brain to reduce muscle use... This is why, even after successful rehabilitation, regression can occur over time, linked not just to muscle weakness, but to a deficit in muscle recruitment by the brain. As a result of pain caused by a particular movement, your brain may develop avoidance reflexes which also need to be retrained. Our method thus combines proprioception exercises for patellar syndrome, mental imagery and our patented medical device, theAlphabox®, which emits low-frequency sounds to restore neuromotor control of the muscle.
Effective, fast and without risk, our method allows toeducate the body and to relieve the mind, for a lasting effect.
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