| dc.description.abstract | Patellar tendinopathy, also known as a jumper's knee, is a common injury in sports involving repetitive jumps such as volleyball, where it has an incidence of 45% of professional athletes. This review aims to evaluate the relationship between jump kinematics (take-off and landing) and the strategy used by volleyball players with patellar tendinopathy, and thus to better determine the risk factors for the development of the injury. A search was made in the online databases PEDro, LILACS and Medline to identify studies that dealt with the kinematics of jump specifically of volleyball athletes and the relation with patellar tendinopathy. Differences were observed in the kinematics of the jump, especially in the landing, of athletes presenting with patellar tendinopathy, suggesting that a more stiff landing, reduction of knee and ankle flexion range of motion, reduction in the eversion-inversion Ankle arc of motion, dynamic valgus and, in the take-off phase, a worse absorption of energy in the eccentric phase of impulsion may be risk factors for the development of patellar tendinopathy. These studies indicate that an improvement in the jumping strategy may have an influence on the treatment and prevention of injury. | |
