Isometric exercise for acute pain relief: is it relevant in tendinopathy management?
Tags: treatment, sports, knee, strength, tendinosis, rehab, exercise, chronic pain, self-treatment, leg, limbs, pain problems, overuse injury, injury
Two articles on PainSci cite Silbernagel 2019: 1. Tennis Elbow Guide 2. Achilles Tendinitis Treatment Science
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- “Isometric Contractions Are More Analgesic Than Isotonic Contractions for Patellar Tendon Pain: An In-Season Randomized Clinical Trial,” Ebonie Rio, Mathijs van Ark, Sean Docking, G Lorimer Moseley, Dawson Kidgell, Jamie E Gaida, Inge van den Akker-Scheek, Johannes Zwerver, and Jill Cook, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, 2017.
- “The Acute Effect of Isometric Versus Isotonic Resistance Exercise in Patients With Patellar Tendinopathy—does contraction type matter? A randomised crossover trial,” S Holden, K Lyng, and T Graven-Nielsen, {Presented at the Scandinavian Sports Medicine Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019}, 2019.
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