Influence Of Blood Flow Restriction Training on Knee Pain After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Double Blinded Randamized Controlled Trial

Background: Anterior cruciate ligament rupture thought to be one of the most popular injuries among adults.Knee pain is a common post-operative rehabilitation problem, which may disturb muscle physiological prosperities and hinder the fluence of post-operative rehabilitation milestones achievement and vise versa.Blood flow restriction is an innovative technique which positively affects postoperative knee function.Purpose: To investigate the effect of adding Blood flow restriction to post-operative anterior cruciate ligament conventional rehabilitation protocol on knee pain.Methods: Thirty six post-operative anterior cruciate ligament post-operative patients were randomized into two groups.Participants in group I received conventional rehabilitation protocol.Participants in group II received blood flow restriction training added to conventional rehabilitation protocol.Knee pain was evaluated using a visual analogue scale pre-operative and one and half months and three months post-operatively.