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Filter by:Pressure offloading is often considered the most crucial aspect in healing after a foot injury. The investigators have devised a novel foot offloading device (PopSole™) which will allow for customization of the area where there is foot pain, as well as allow for customizable arch support and elevation of the metatarsals. This validation study is aimed to assess improvement of pain with use, ease of use, fit and feel, compliance, and durability over a 4 week period. Validated patient reported outcome measures will be used at baseline, 2 weeks and 4 weeks.
Plantar fasciitis is a common cause of heel pain affecting about 20% of the general population. The basic treatment of plantar fasciitis is conservative. Approximately 85-90% of plantar fasciitis patients can be successfully treated without surgery. Methods include resting, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, stretching, shoe orthotics, corticosteroid injections, physical therapy, night splints, and extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) and ultrasound therapy. Plantar fasciitis treatment is a chronic treatment that has been clearly described in the literature despite the use of treatment modalities. In the literature, treatment modalities which should be used respectively in the treatment of plantar fasciitis are expressed. Nevertheless, it is a chronic disease caused by skipping the treatment steps for various reasons or applying the treatments in the wrong hierarchy. The aim of this project is to compare the effects of stretching exercises, ESWT and instrument-assisted myofascial relaxation technique (Graston Technique®) in the treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis in terms of pain, disability level, quality of life and static and dynamic plantar pressure analysis.
Determine if the addition of a specific acupuncture protocol to a standard of care prescribed exercise program is more effective at improving pain and function in adult patients with plantar fasciosis.
The aim of this study is to translate into Norwegian and cross-culturally adapt the Foot Functional Index- revised, short form (FFI-RS) according to international guidelines. Furthermore, the reliability and the validity, responsiveness as well as floor and ceiling effect of the Norwegian version of the FFI-RS will be determined.
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.
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.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate clinical outcomes of patients with plantar fasciitis following treatment with Amnios™ RT. Patients will be randomized to either Amnios™ RT or a placebo control.
The Dynamic Tape ® (DT) is a new Tape (2009). Dynamic tape ® is a visco-elastic nylon tape material , greater than 200% elastic has manufactured in Asia. The material and adhesive arefast drying and breathable meaning that the tape, if it is correctly applied may stay on for up to 5 days, bearingin mind that if any discomfort, itching, burning, stinging orirritation is felt immediate removal is strongly advised. Usually tapes are applied in plantar fasciitis to improve the symptoms. The fasciitis plantar is an pain that sometimes incapacitates the physical activity of the patients.
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.
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.