Physiotherapy for Chronic Metatarsalgia

Metatarsalgia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Physiotherapie Bei Chronischer Metatarsalgie - Ein Vergleich Klinischer Parameter Vor Und Nach Therapie gemäß Spiraldynamik®- Konzept

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02578615
• Other study ID #: 2014-0528
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 13, 2015
• Last updated: October 15, 2015
• Start date: December 2013
• Est. completion date: September 2014

Study information

• Verified date: October 2015
• Source: Spiraldynamik AG
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Switzerland: Ethikkommission
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The pilot study was conducted in the form of an open prospective single-arm observational study with 28 patients who received physiotherapy at the Spiraldynamik® Med Center in Zurich.

Description:

The pilot study was conducted in the form of an open prospective single-arm observational study. The data of 28 patients who received physiotherapy at the Spiraldynamik® Med Center in Zurich was evaluated. The endpoints of Visual Analog Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS FA), Activity Index (AI), plantar and inter-metatarsal pres-sure pain, rearfoot angle and dorsal extension capability of the upper ankle joint were individually compared and analyzed before and after therapy.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 28
• Est. completion date: September 2014
• Est. primary completion date: September 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 30 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• main diagnosis: Metatarsalgia

• secondary diagnosis: Hallux rigidus,Hallux valgus, Knick-Senk-Spreizfuß, Hohlfuß

• age 30-75 Jahre, gender both

• chronic ( = 3 month),

• pain = 1 visuell analog scale (VAS)

• no other complementary therapy

Exclusion Criteria:

• local: trauma, fracture, tumore, infectionen

• pain after forefoot - operation

• neurological diseases

• generell: somatoform, pension covet

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Metatarsalgia

Intervention

Other:
• physiotherapy
physiotherapeutic intervention according to the principles of the Spiraldynamik® concept

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Spiraldynamik AG

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Visual Analog Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS FA)		9 weeks	No
Secondary	Activity Index (AI)		3, 8 weeks	No
Secondary	plantar and inter-metatarsal pressure pain - measured dichotom	measured dichotom - pain triggered or not	9 weeks	No
Secondary	rearfoot angle measured in degree °	measured in degree, during standing: the angle for pes valgus (measured at the position of calcaneus)	9 weeks	No
Secondary	dorsal extension capability of the upper ankle joint measured in degree °		9 weeks	No