NCT02373618

Dry Needling Versus Conventional Physical Therapy in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis

Dry Needling Versus Conventional Physical Therapy in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis: a Multi-center Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Alabama Physical Therapy & Acupuncture · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to compare patient outcomes following treatment of plantar fasciitis with conventional physical therapy (stretching, strengthening, ultrasound, manual therapy, and cryotherapy) and conventional physical therapy plus dry needling. Physical therapists commonly use conventional physical therapy techniques and dry needling to treat plantar fasciitis, and this study is attempting to find out if the addition of dry needling to conventional physical therapy is more effective than conventional physical therapy alone.

Detailed description

Patients with plantar fasciitis will be randomly assigned to receive 1-2 treatments per week for 4 weeks of either: (1) Dry Needling and conventional physical therapy, or the (2) Conventional physical therapy (stretching, strengthening, ultrasound, manual therapy, and cryotherapy)

Conditions

• Plantar Fasciitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	DN and conventional PT	Dry needling to the foot and lower leg. Up to 8 sessions over 4 weeks. Also conventional PT including: ultrasound, stretching, strengthening, cryotherapy and manual therapy to the foot and lower leg.
OTHER	Conventional PT	Conventional physical therapy includes ultrasound, strengthening, cryotherapy, and manual therapy up to 8 sessions over 4 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-05-17
• Completion: 2017-05-17
• First posted: 2015-02-27
• Last updated: 2017-05-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States