Status:
COMPLETED
Advice vs Advice + Exercise vs Advice + Exercise + Injection for Individuals With Plantar Fasciopathy
Lead Sponsor:
Aalborg University
Conditions:
Plantar Fasciopathy
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this trial is to investigate the efficacy of fundamental patient advice and a heel cup versus fundamental patient advice and a heel cup plus heavy-slow resistance training versus fundam...
Detailed Description
This trial will be designed as a randomised, data analyst-blinded, superiority trial, with a 3-group parallel design to be conducted in Aalborg, Denmark. Reporting of the trial will follow CONSORT gui...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- history of inferior heel pain for at least three months before enrolment
- pain on palpation of the medial calcaneal tubercle or the proximal plantar fascia
- thickness of the plantar fascia of 4.0 mm or greater as measured by ultrasonography
- mean heel pain of ≥30 mm on a 100 mm VAS during the previous week
Exclusion
- below 18 years of age
- diabetes
- history of inflammatory systemic diseases
- pregnancy or breastfeeding
- corticosteroid injection for plantar fasciopathy within the previous six months
- pain or stiffness in the 1st metatarsophalangeal joint to an extent where the exercises cannot be performed
- known hypersensitivity to corticosteroids or local anaesthetics
- skin or soft tissue infection near the injection site
- received treatment by a healthcare professional for plantar fasciopathy within the previous 12 weeks
- made any substantial changes to usual self-care of the condition in the last 4 weeks (e.g. started using insoles, started performing stretching, made a substantial decrease in physical activity level)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 7 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 23 2021
Estimated Enrollment :
180 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03804008
Start Date
February 7 2019
End Date
September 23 2021
Last Update
January 11 2022
Active Locations (1)
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Department of occupational therapy and physiotherapy, Aalborg University Hospital
Hobrovej 18-22, Denmark, 9000