Resistance Training Interventions for Lower Limb Tendinopathies: A Scoping Review of Resistance Training Reporting Content, Quality, and Scientific Implementation
Table 1
Resistance training principles and training intervention criteria assessed.
Principle
Criteria for this review
Specificity: training and desired adaptations should be specific to the tendinopathy and relevant to desired outcomes
Appropriate population targeted and intervention designed to improve primary outcome
Progression: to allow for continuous adaptations, resistance or load must be increased providing a greater stress to the body
Training intervention was stated to be progressive with gradual increases in frequency, sets, repetitions, resistance, or loading throughout intervention
Overload: for the intervention to improve strength, greater than normal stress and training volume must occur above current training levels
Interventions included baseline strength testing or rationale that intervention was of sufficient intensity and volume relative to baseline capacity
Individualisation: training is tailored to the individual to allow for consideration of individual factors and training response
Training intervention considered methods to individually tailor exercises stimulus based on an individual’s own factors or training response
Component of training
Description
Frequency
How many times per week or day
Intensity
Measurement methods: RM, %RM, RPE, pain level
Time
Duration of session
Sets
How many sets of each exercise
Repetitions
How many repetitions of each exercise or target number of repetitions
Exercise selection
Outline and description of specific exercises used in intervention
Adherence
Was adherence to the training intervention monitored and reported?