NCT01981226

Sonoelastographic Changes After Low Energy Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) in Plantar Fasciitis

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Extracoporeal shock wave therapy(ESWT) was perfomed on the plantar fascia of chornic plantar fasciitis patients. Pre-ESWT and post-ESWT pain intensity, sonography and sonoelastrography of the plantar fascia was checked. Our hypothesis is that the plantar fascia stiffness increased after ESWT as clinical symptom improves.

Detailed description

For patient who met the inclusion criteria, we check sonography and sonoelastography for their plantar fascias and obtain a thorough evulation questionaire for clinical symptom and pain condition and intensity in various conditions, also SF-36 questionaire first. Inform consent was done. After the ESWT, we follow patient with questionaire and sonography/sonoelastography at 1-week, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, and 12-month post-ESWT time. The colored sonoelastographic image was analysed by computer software "Image-J" with hue analysis method and relative stiffness of selected area within proximal plantar fascia wasa obtained for statistical analysis.

Conditions

• Chronic Plantar Fasciitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Extracoporeal shock wave	Extracoporeal shock wave, 3000 shots/time, once a week for 3 weeks, treatment duration:30 minutes/time, shock wave freqency：2-4Hz, energy level:0.8-1.0 mJ/mm2

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2013-11-11
• Last updated: 2013-11-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan