Hip Strengthening and Manual Therapy for Heel Pain Patients

Plantar Fasciitis Clinical Trial

Official title: Effects of Adding Hip Strengthening to Manual Therapy for Heel Pain Patients

Status Terminated

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of manual therapy and of manual therapy associated with hip strengthening in the recovery of patients with heel pain.

Heel pain decreases function, balance, walking and can cause change in the movement pattern. This alterations can induce a deficit in motor control of other structures as knee and hip. There is an importance to compare the effects of manual therapy and manual therapy associated with hip strengthening on the recover of patients with heel pain.

Clinical Trial Description

After the initial assessment and data collection, participants will be randomly assigned to one of two intervention groups. Randomization will be held electronically in http://graphpad.com/quickcalcs/index.cfm site by simple random sampling. Patients will be treated for a maximum of 10 sessions, each session lasting about 40 minutes and each week two sessions. The maximum duration of treatment is 3 months. A physical therapist will be responsible for the screening of eligible patients and the random allocation of participants A second professional will be responsible for physical therapy initial and final evaluation and will be blind to the interventions. A third physical therapist will perform the interventions. The physiotherapist in charge of intervention will be blind to the initial and final evaluation. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fasciitis
• Fasciitis, Plantar
• Plantar Fasciitis

• NCT number: NCT02624635
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Centro Universitário Augusto Motta
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2016
• Completion date: March 2018