Patellar Tendinitis Rehab Exercise Plan

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Patellar Tendinitis is a resolution pain. People start their new years resolution to get fit, lose weight, get strong and hire services of a personal trainer. Too Much Too Soon with no progressive overload results in patellar tendinitis.

Incidence: Patellar tendinitis is more often seen is men over the age of 30 years.

Causes for patellar tendinitis: 3 most common causes for patella tendinitis in weight room or gym are due to:

Ankle mobility: lower ankle mobility leads to over compensation at the knee resulting in over loading of patellar tendon.
Lack of hamstring and quadriceps mobility and flexibility training in your program.
High volume of squats (Quadriceps dominant training) or lower body exercises without adequate recovery planning.

Treatment/Management:

At PhysioGenics Physiotherapy clinic in St John's Wood London we follow proven scientific protocols and customise it to individual needs of the patient.

Manual therapy to release tight quadriceps tendon/IT band and Patellar tendon.
Electrotherapy to activate deep quadriceps tendon
Ultrasound to reduce inflammation
Exercise with progressive overload supported with a well designed warm up routine.
Cryotherapy (apply ice) on the tendon post exercise to reduce inflammation.

Warm Up

Note: The plan is to activate and mobilise the ankle so there is no compensatory stress on the knee, followed by mobilising quadriceps and hamstring (Knee muscles), and activating the glutes.