Isometric exercise for acute pain relief: is it relevant in tendinopathy management?
Tags: treatment, knee, exercise, chronic pain, sports, strength, rehab, tendinosis, leg, limbs, pain problems, self-treatment, injury, overuse injury
Two pages 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,” Rio et al, 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,” Holden et al, {Presented at the Scandinavian Sports Medicine Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019}, 2019.
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