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Administrative data

NCT number NCT04985396
Other study ID # Plantar Fasciitis
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date July 25, 2021
Est. completion date February 1, 2022

Study information

Verified date May 2022
Source Armed Police Force Hospital, Nepal
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Plantar fasciitis (PF) is the one of the most common orthopaedic problem resulting in heel pain. Previous evidence suggests that Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injection has better outcome in the long run as compared to the local steroid injection (SI). Although over the past many years, steroid injection was considered as the choice of treatment after the failure of conservative treatment methods, PRP therapy has shown promising results in the treatment of plantar fasciitis now-a-days. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of PRP injection compared with Steroid injection in the treatment of Plantar Fasciitis. A hospital-based randomized clinical trial study will be carried out to compare the efficacy of the therapeutic effect between steroid injection and Platelet Rich Plasma injection in plantar fasciitis. A representative sample size of 78 patients aged 18 years to 60 years suffering from plantar fasciitis with failed conservative treatment will be intervened. The American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) and the visual analog scale (VAS) scoring system will be recorded pre- and post-injection phases at 3 months and 6 months period. Statistical analyses will be performed using independent t-test and Mann Whitney U test to compare between the two means. The outcome of this study will help to guide the physicians to choose the better therapeutic approach among the patients suffering from plantar fasciitis.


Description:

Plantar fasciitis is a common and degenerative condition of plantar fascia resulting from excessive strain and micro-trauma on the planter surface of the foot. The prevalence of Plantar Fasciitis is estimated up to 7% in the general population and is common cause of plantar heel pain. The incidence of calcaneum spur with heel pain in the age group of 40 to 50 years is around 59% in the case of India. Plantar fasciitis is defined as localized inflammation and degeneration of the plantar aponeurosis, and it is the most common reason for presentation. Plantar Fasciitis is considered to be a self-limiting disease which resolves, in 80% to 90% of cases, within 10 months. This disease is very problematic for both doctors and patients. The majority of treatment options are non-surgical approaches due to the nature of the disease. The NSAIDS, shoe insert, stretching exercise or extracorporeal shockwave therapy are the common non-surgical therapy. Typically, these types of non-operative treatment are successful up to 90% of the patients with the condition and, in those patients who do not respond to non-operative treatment, injection therapies may be utilized. The occurrence of plantar fasciitis is multifactorial. The risk factors may be extrinsic or intrinsic. Whatever may be the cause of plantar fasciitis, it is painful and affects the daily functioning of life. Orchard (2012) mentions the lifetime prevalence of plantar fasciitis as 10%, and it mostly affects the people aged 40 to 60 years, having no discrimination in gender. The prevalence of plantar fasciitis is estimated up to 7 % in general population. Goweda et al, 2015 found the prevalence of plantar fasciitis in Saudi Arabia as 57.8%. The number of cases of heel pain is increasing day by in Nepal. The prevalence of Plantar Fasciitis in Nepal could not be traced because of the lack of study in our population. However, different studies have been found in other perspectives. Different modalities of the treatment for PF are available. They are stretching exercise, soft heel pad shoe, ultrasound therapy, NSAIDs etc. If conservative treatment fails, the steroid injection is the preferred choice for the clinicians in practice, but this treatment has certain limitations as it can only reduce pain for a few months but not thereafter. Many studies suggest PRP treatment is more safe and beneficial than steroid injection in this manner. PRP therapy has been gaining popularity over the steroid therapy in the western world. But there are no studies done so far in the context of Nepal. Hence, this study will generate the empirical evidence to fill the knowledge gap for the treatment of PF.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 78
Est. completion date February 1, 2022
Est. primary completion date January 26, 2022
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 60 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - The patients having the pain over the plantar aspect of foot for more than 6 weeks with tenderness on palpation over the medial calcaneal tuberosity, failure of conservative treatment with physiotherapy, splints and NSAIDs. Exclusion Criteria: - Lumbar radiculopathy - Existing trauma, previous surgery or any local pathology over the foot - Patient on aspirin - Bleeding disorders with low platelet counts - Systemic disease like diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis

Study Design


Intervention

Drug:
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) group
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) group will be intervened with PRP injection. The collection of 30 ml blood of patients into acid citrate dextrose tube under aseptic condition will be done and subjected for centrifugation at 2000 rpm (soft spin) through digital centrifuge machine speed control (REMI, R-8C PLUS). There will be three layers of blood, among them the supernatant layer and buff coat of plasma will be again subjected to centrifuge at 3000 rpm (hard spin). The upper two thirds of the tube containing platelet poor plasma will be discarded and finally, the lower one third concentrated platelet plasma superficial buffy coat will be injected into medial calcaneal tuberosity at the most tender point.

Locations

Country Name City State
Nepal Dev Ram Sunuwar Kathmandu Bagmati

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Armed Police Force Hospital, Nepal

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Nepal, 

References & Publications (13)

Acevedo JI, Beskin JL. Complications of plantar fascia rupture associated with corticosteroid injection. Foot Ankle Int. 1998 Feb;19(2):91-7. — View Citation

Baksh N, Hannon CP, Murawski CD, Smyth NA, Kennedy JG. Platelet-rich plasma in tendon models: a systematic review of basic science literature. Arthroscopy. 2013 Mar;29(3):596-607. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2012.10.025. Epub 2013 Jan 24. Review. — View Citation

Buchbinder R. Clinical practice. Plantar fasciitis. N Engl J Med. 2004 May 20;350(21):2159-66. Review. — View Citation

David JA, Sankarapandian V, Christopher PR, Chatterjee A, Macaden AS. Injected corticosteroids for treating plantar heel pain in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2017 Jun 11;6:CD009348. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009348.pub2. Review. — View Citation

Davis PF, Severud E, Baxter DE. Painful heel syndrome: results of nonoperative treatment. Foot Ankle Int. 1994 Oct;15(10):531-5. — View Citation

Hawker GA, Mian S, Kendzerska T, French M. Measures of adult pain: Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), Numeric Rating Scale for Pain (NRS Pain), McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ), Chronic Pain Grade Scale — View Citation

Healey K, Chen K. Plantar fasciitis: current diagnostic modalities and treatments. Clin Podiatr Med Surg. 2010 Jul;27(3):369-80. doi: 10.1016/j.cpm.2010.03.002. Epub 2010 May 14. Review. — View Citation

Jain K, Murphy PN, Clough TM. Platelet rich plasma versus corticosteroid injection for plantar fasciitis: A comparative study. Foot (Edinb). 2015 Dec;25(4):235-7. doi: 10.1016/j.foot.2015.08.006. Epub 2015 Aug 22. — View Citation

Lareau CR, Sawyer GA, Wang JH, DiGiovanni CW. Plantar and medial heel pain: diagnosis and management. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2014 Jun;22(6):372-80. doi: 10.5435/JAAOS-22-06-372. Review. — View Citation

League AC. Current concepts review: plantar fasciitis. Foot Ankle Int. 2008 Mar;29(3):358-66. doi: 10.3113/FAI.2008.0358. Review. — View Citation

Orchard J. Plantar fasciitis. BMJ. 2012 Oct 10;345:e6603. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6603. Review. — View Citation

Say F, Gürler D, Inkaya E, Bülbül M. Comparison of platelet-rich plasma and steroid injection in the treatment of plantar fasciitis. Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc. 2014;48(6):667-72. doi: 10.3944/AOTT.2014.13.0142. — View Citation

Zhang JY, Fabricant PD, Ishmael CR, Wang JC, Petrigliano FA, Jones KJ. Utilization of Platelet-Rich Plasma for Musculoskeletal Injuries: An Analysis of Current Treatment Trends in the United States. Orthop J Sports Med. 2016 Dec 21;4(12):2325967116676241. — View Citation

* Note: There are 13 references in allClick here to view all references

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Pain reduction Visual analog scale (VAS) will be used to measure the pain assessment at the three months and six months follow-up. Six months
Primary Functional mobility of the patients American Foot and Ankle Score (AFAS) ankle-Hindfoot scale will be used to measure the functional outcome of the patients at the three months and six months follow-up. Six months
Secondary Plantar fascia thickness Measure the changes of plantar fascia thickness in steroid injection and Platelet-Rich Plasma injection using ultrasonogram at six months Six months
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