Efectos de la pliometría en el tratamiento fisioterapéutico de pacientes con lesiones deportivas de rodilla

Abstract

Plyometrics is a physiotherapeutic treatment that seeks to increase maximum voluntary strength, reducing the coupling time, and increasing stiffness in sports injuries, based on this the main objective of this research was to determine the effects of a plyometric exercise program in the treatment of patients with knee injuries who attend the Physical-med physiotherapy center in the city of Riobamba, during the period July-December 2020. The methodology used was the application of a plyometric exercise program to 20 patients with knee injuries who are in the last stage of physical therapy, the type of research was quasi-experimental with a quantitative approach because a data analysis was performed before and after the program was applied. The data were processed in the statistical program SPSS v.21 The first type of jump was the Counter Movement Jump whose result showed a progression from 20.49±6.05 (before) to 22.47±7.2 (after), the second the Squart Jump with 23.48±7.1 (before) to 25.35±7.79 (after), and the third the Drop Jump with 21.8±8.5 (before) to 24.5±7.2 (after); showing also that statistically significant differences were registered in the Counter Movement Jump (p=0.022) and in the Drop Jump (p=0.027), the Squat Jump did not show significant changes in the jumping capacity (p=0.883), finally at the level of the total values of the Jump test instrument statistically significant differences were observed (p=0.033).