Vibration training New therapy for knee pain

Effective therapy for knee pain
Knee pain is widespread. Especially athletes often suffer from it. Researchers have now achieved good results with a novel therapy. With the help of a vibration training a significant decrease of the pain could be registered.

Relieve the knee again and again
Knee pain can often be avoided by practical tips. For example, experts advise to relieve the knee over and over again, to avoid being overweight and to strengthen the musculature. Athletes usually have strong muscles anyway and usually they are not fat either. Nevertheless, they plague knee pain. Researchers from the University of Salzburg are now reporting a new therapy for knee pain.

Researchers have achieved good results against knee pain with a new method. The "Good Vibrations Therapy" could possibly be a treatment alternative for the general population. (Image: underdogstudios / fotolia.com)

Top athletes often have knee pain
Top athletes often suffer from knee pain. Reason for this can be, among other things, an overload of the patella tendon.

"In top athletes as well as in recreational sports, it often happens that tendons degenerate due to overload and cause pain," explains sports scientist Florian Rieder of the University of Salzburg in a statement.

This disease is called Tendinopathy. It affects not only the patellar tendon in the knee, but also often the Achilles tendon on the heel of runners.

Demanding treatment methods
In addition to the so-called shock wave treatment, a targeted eccentric strength training was used against this rare inflammatory tendon disease as part of a physiotherapy or training therapy.

From Scandinavia comes the "Heavy Slow Resistance Training". The latter treatments show good results, after a three-month training in most cases, a significant reduction in pain was recorded.

Disadvantage of these common treatment methods, however, is that they are very intense and sometimes painful and beyond that are often too demanding for the general population.

Treatment alternative for the general population
The new method of "Good Vibrations", which Florian Rieder and Hans-Peter Wiesinger have examined, promises to be equally successful, but is much easier for the person concerned to carry out.

"The vibration training hardly strains the patient," says Rieder. Already in his dissertation he dealt with the question of how vibration training affects muscles, tendons and strength.

The individuals who participated in this study were healthy and untrained. "We realized that while the training has hardly any effect on the muscles and strength, but on the patella tendon has an uplifting effect."

In another study, people suffering from tendinopathy should now carry out the vibration training program.

"When the" Good Vibrations Therapy "comes in, we have a good treatment alternative for the general population," says Rieder. (Ad)