NCT02760875

Foot Pressure Mapping and Tendon Length After Nonoperative Treatment of Acute Achilles Tendon Rupture

Foot Pressure Mapping and Ultrasound Achilles Tendon Length, in Medium Term Acute Achilles Tendon Rupture Patients Using Nonoperative Treatment.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Using a population of patients from another study, who was originally randomized to 2 different types of nonoperative treatment after an acute achilles tendon rupture, the length of the achilles tendon is examined using ultrasound, and foot pressure mapping is performed, 4-5 years after the injury.

Detailed description

A total of 56 patients from an earlier study (see reference) on Achilles tendon rupture using nonoperative treatment with or without early weight bearing was invited for an additional follow up, where we examine the length of the Achilles tendon using ultrasound, as well as functional influence of the injury, using foot pressure mapping (FPM) during barefoot gait. Additionally the mobility of the ankle is measured with the Achilles Tendon Resting Angle (ATRA) as well as passive plantar- and dorsiflexion. Strength is measured using Heel Raise Work (height of lift, number of lifts and the total work), and supplemented with calf circumference.

Conditions

• Achilles Tendon Rupture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Early weight bearing	The intervention implies that the selected patients, will be allowed to bear weight on the injured leg form day 1 while wearing the orthosis, in contrast to the control group, who must wait 6 weaks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2016-05-04
• Last updated: 2021-08-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark