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NCT ID: NCT04204824 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

Ultrasound Treatment in the Management of Plantar Fasciitis

Start date: September 1, 2016
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of ultrasound treatment in addition to an exercise program to improve pain and function in individuals with plantar fasciitis.

NCT ID: NCT04162262 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

Effects of Exercise Versus Exercise and Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization for Plantar Fasciopathy Treatment

Start date: October 24, 2019
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

This study compares the addition instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) to a program of home strengthening and stretching exercises to see whether adding weekly IASTM treatments improves plantar fasciopathy pain and plantar fascia stiffness.

NCT ID: NCT03918434 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

Efficacy of a Locoregional Anesthesia Technique During Shock Wave Therapy

Start date: June 1, 2019
Phase:
Study type: Observational

Plantar fasciitis and the chronic Achilles tendinopathy are the most common causes of heel pain. The term "plantar fasciitis" implies an inflammatory condition by the suffix "itis". However, various lines of evidence indicate that this disorder is better classified as "fasciosis" or "fasciopathy", as heel pain associated with degenerative changes in the fascia and atrophy of the abductor minimi muscle. High energy shock wave therapy (HESWT) has been proposed as a potential method of treating patients with chronic disease without the need to stop weightbearing. Often a crucial complication of HESWT is the appearance of pain with the subsequent interruption of the procedure. The consequences are a reduced patient compliance, need of a deep sedation and more sessions for the treatment. Frequently, topic anesthesia (TA) (as EMLA) is applied during the therapy to decrease the pain HESWT-induced and enable sham treatment. Multiple publications focused on the evaluation of a clinically relevant effect of shock wave application on plantar heel pain, either of HESWT, applied in a single session with local or regional anesthesia or of low energy HESWT, applied repetitively without local anesthesia. Rompe JD and colleagues have demonstrated that the therapeutic success rate of HESWT with TA is significantly smaller than without TA even after 3 months. Probably, the use of anesthetic topically applied can reduce the efficacy of HESWT for increased impedance. To date, many patients interrupted the HESWT for moderate-severe pain. Consequently, this therapy, which generally is administered in three sessions, required a prolongation of procedure up to six sessions.The clinical application of Posterior Tibial nerve block (already widely used in operating room) during HESWT applied in Orthopedic Day Hospital could offer the possibility to minimize the patient discomfort and to give the therapeutic doses just in few HESWT sessions, reducing the hospital access of outpatients for the treatments and the costs related to prolonged treatment caused by pain. Furthermore, this anesthetic approach could make patients tolerate majorated doses of HESWT in few sessions, with high effectiveness of procedure after several months.

NCT ID: NCT03904966 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

The Effect of Kinesio-tape and Shock Wave Therapy on Plantar Fasciitis

Start date: April 8, 2019
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Foot problems are common in society. Accordingly, loss of workforce, quality of life and mental health deterioration can be observed in employees and hardship in daily life activities, balance-walking problems and fall risk increase in older adults. The presence of athletic and sedentary populations causes a large number of patients to apply to outpatient clinics with the complaint of heel pain every year. Plantar fasciitis (plantar heel pain), although multifactorial origin, obesity, overload bearing and ankle joint motion reduction factors are thought to play an active role in the emergence of discomfort. Foot orthoses are a common treatment used for plantar heel pain, but a period of several weeks is usually required between the diagnosis and transportation to the orthosis due to the production process. Therefore, short-term therapies such as supportive banding are used to alleviate the symptoms of this intermediate period. The low-dye taping technique is the most commonly used banding technique and has been found to be effective in randomized controlled trials. In addition, there is a rare study in the literature showing the efficacy of Kinesio taping method. Although both were found to be useful in the treatment of plantar fasciitis, no randomized controlled trial was studied in this patient population of the low-dye method with Kinesio taping. In the studies, the early period of banding therapy is mentioned and studies on relatively longer treatment response are still required. Our hypothesis is that low-dye Kinesio-banding treatment added to ESWT treatment for patients diagnosed with plantar fasciitis will be effective on foot functionality by reducing the pain of the patient both in the early and later period.

NCT ID: NCT03873961 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

Effect of HILT vs LLLT in Treatment of Patients With Achilles Tendinitis or Plantar Fasciitis

Start date: January 3, 2017
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the changes of heel pain, functional health and well-being after high-intensity and low-level laser therapy for plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendinopathy

NCT ID: NCT03857334 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

Efficacy of Platelet Rich Plasma in Plantar Fasciitis

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Start date: July 1, 2016
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Plantar fasciitis is a common pathology among podiatry moreover the healing time takes several months. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a injection of Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) versus corticosteroid injection.

NCT ID: NCT03731897 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

Evaluation of the Efficacy of Prolotherapy Treatment in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis: a Randomized Double-blind Study

Start date: November 12, 2018
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain and it is diagnosed by clinically. Resting, stretching exercises, weight loss, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and physical therapy methods are used in the treatment. Steroid injection can be applied in patients who do not respond to these treatments. But steroid injection is not a pathology-based treatment, and also can cause serious side effects, such as fat pad atrophy and plantar fascia rupture. At this stage, in patients who do not respond to conservative treatments, new methods such as dextrose prolotherapy and platelet rich plasma may be used instead of steroid injection. In the literature, there is insufficient study showing effect of prolotherapy in patients with plantar fasciitis. Because these studies enrolled small number of patients and lacked controlled design. The investigators design a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial to assess the effect after prolotherapy injection in patients with plantar fasciitis. The participants evaluated with clinically and sonographically. The aim of this study is to compare the pain, function and thickness of proximal plantar fascia in prolotherapy or control group.

NCT ID: NCT03677167 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

The Effect of Barefoot Walking Plantar Chronic Heel Pain

Start date: August 29, 2018
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Many patients suffer from chronic heel pain, and studies have not yet found the most appropriate treatment. There are some researchers who claim that the pain is caused by weakness in the muscles of the foot, which causes increased pressure in the heel. In walking, the muscles of the foot are activated and strengthened. No research has yet been done on whether walking (barefoot or with shoes) on a treadmill reduces pain in the heel and improves function.

NCT ID: NCT03472989 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

Plantar Fasciopathy and the Effectiveness of Radial Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy, Physical Training or Usual Care

Start date: March 21, 2018
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether radial extracorporeal shockwave therapy (rESWT), sham- rESWT or standardised exercise program is more effective on change in heel pain than usual care in the treatment of plantar fasciopathy. The null hypothesis is: There is no difference between rESWT, sham- rESWT or standardised exercise program on change in heel pain (primary outcome) and functioning (secondary outcomes) compared to usual care in the treatment of plantar fasciopathy at 6 months follow-up (and secondary outcomes at the 12 months follow-up). Alternative hypothesis is: H1: There is a difference between rESWT and usual care on change in heel pain (and secondary outcomes) at the 6 months follow-up (and secondary outcomes at the 12 months follow-up). H2: There is a difference between sham-rESWT and usual care on change in heel pain (and secondary outcomes ) at 6 months follow-up (and secondary outcomes at the 12 months follow-up). H3: There is a difference between standardized exercise program and usual care on change in heel pain (and secondary outcomes) at 6 months follow- up (and secondary outcomes at the 12 months follow-up).

NCT ID: NCT03246087 Completed - Plantar Fascitis Clinical Trials

Acupuncture for Plantar Fasciosis in the Primary Care Setting

Start date: October 17, 2017
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The purpose of this study is to determine if the addition of acupuncture to a standard of care prescribed exercise program is more effective at improving pain and function in adult patients with plantar fasciosis.