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SpO2 was commonly monitored during exercise testing
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Oxygen was available during exercise testing and training in most programs
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The rationale for prescribing oxygen during exercise varied between programs
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The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia-11 assesses the kinesiophobia construct.
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The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia-11 is a consistent and reliable questionnaire.
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The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia-11 showed improvement in kinesiophobia after an exercise-based intervention in patients with fibromyalgia.
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The effect of resistance exercise with BRF is not more effective that resistance exercise in in patients with knee pain.
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Our study was unable to demonstrate the clinical benefits of resistance exercise with BRF in subjects with knee pain.
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Further studies are needed to support the clinical effect of BRF in pain intensity and knee function in these patients.
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Women with PFP present worse performance in functional tests than an age-matched control group.
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Investigated functional tests are reliable in women with or without PFP.
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Investigated functional tests do not seem to be valid tools to identify functional limitations due to anterior knee pain.
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Only 50% of the published trials were registered.
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Unregistered trials may have collected other measures that remain unreported.
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Many additional outcomes not appearing in trial registries were published.
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Some reported positive findings are likely spurious due to unadjusted multiple comparisons.
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The combination of heat and TENS significantly improves pain pressure thresholds.
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The combination of heat and TENS does not affect maximum and average pain, nor movement-evoked pain (MEP).
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There is a need for standardized and sensitive assessment tools for measuring MEP.
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Physical therapists’ use of recommended care has not changed since 1990s.
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Physical therapists’ use of treatments of unknown value appears to be increasing.
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One explanation for these trends is the challenge of keeping up to date with evidence.
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Other explanations include increased exposure to treatments of unknown value and not seeing value in research.
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Strategies to replace non-recommended care with recommended care are needed.
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Osteoarthritis promoted distinct modulation on MMP-2 in the quadriceps versus patellar tendon.
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There is peri-articular tissue adaptation to resistance training in osteoarthritis.
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Resistance training downregulates MMP-2 in quadriceps tendon, while in the patellar tendon its effects are limited.
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Understanding extracellular matrix degeneration is crucial for rehabilitation purposes of osteoarthritis.
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This systematic review identified 8 randomized clinical trials investigating the effect of blood flow restriction (BFR) in patients with knee pain.
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Resistance exercise with BFR did not show clinical benefits compared to resistance exercise.
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Further high-quality studies are needed to clearly determine the clinical effectiveness of BFR in pain intensity and knee function in these patients.
