NCT02624635

Hip Strengthening and Manual Therapy for Heel Pain Patients

Effects of Adding Hip Strengthening to Manual Therapy for Heel Pain Patients

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centro Universitário Augusto Motta · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of manual therapy and of manual therapy associated with hip strengthening in the recovery of patients with heel pain. Heel pain decreases function, balance, walking and can cause change in the movement pattern. This alterations can induce a deficit in motor control of other structures as knee and hip. There is an importance to compare the effects of manual therapy and manual therapy associated with hip strengthening on the recover of patients with heel pain.

Detailed description

After the initial assessment and data collection, participants will be randomly assigned to one of two intervention groups. Randomization will be held electronically in http://graphpad.com/quickcalcs/index.cfm site by simple random sampling. Patients will be treated for a maximum of 10 sessions, each session lasting about 40 minutes and each week two sessions. The maximum duration of treatment is 3 months. A physical therapist will be responsible for the screening of eligible patients and the random allocation of participants A second professional will be responsible for physical therapy initial and final evaluation and will be blind to the interventions. A third physical therapist will perform the interventions. The physiotherapist in charge of intervention will be blind to the initial and final evaluation.

Conditions

• Plantar Fasciitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Manual Therapy	The scheme established for that intervention is as follows: joint manipulation passive ankle and foot, myofascial release technique (gastrocnemius, soleus muscle and plantar fascia), neural mobilization (nerve tibial) and stretching the plantar region and sural triceps, following the recommendations described by Mcpoil et al. (2008).
OTHER	Manual Therapy and Hip Strengthening	It will be done the same treatment performed in group 1 plus the strengthening of the muscles of the hip (iliac muscle, psoas, gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus) and the treatment schedule established for this intervention is the use of exercises with progressive resistance. Will be performed 3 sets of 10 reps with 30 seconds rest between each set, according to the guidelines of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM, 2014). The home exercises consist of repeating the same procedures performed for supervised strengthening. The calculation of the ideal individual load will be carried by Brzycki formula, i.e. one repetition maximum (1RM) = weight ÷ \[1.0278 - (0.0278 x number of repetitions)\] as was used by (Shirazi et al., 2007).

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-03-01
• Completion: 2018-03-01
• First posted: 2015-12-08
• Last updated: 2018-03-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil