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

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Department of occupational therapy and physiotherapy, Aalborg University Hospital

Hobrovej 18-22, Denmark, 9000