NCT03254602

Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound for the Treatment of Chronic Plantar Fasciitis

Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound for the Treatment of Chronic Plantar Fasciitis Musculoskeletal Pain Reduction

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 33 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Foot and Ankle Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness, safety and patient tolerance for the use of Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound (ITU) for chronic, Plantar Fasciitis musculoskeletal tissue pain reduction began in August 2016 and was completed in April 2017. The clinical setting: University Foot and Ankle Institute, Santa Monica, California, USA; Single-Blinded, pivotal study for chronic plantar fasciitis.

Detailed description

Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound (ITU) is an established ultrasound based therapy in which sound waves are concentrated and focused into selected musculoskeletal tissue, to produce selective thermal coagulative changes over a small controlled area while leaving the surrounding tissue unaffected. These coagulative changes are known to begin the body's tissue response cascade and promote collagen generation in the targeted anatomy resulting in pain reduction.

Conditions

• Plantar Fasciitis, Chronic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound Treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-04
• Primary completion: 2017-04-10
• Completion: 2017-04-10
• First posted: 2017-08-18
• Last updated: 2017-12-07
• Results posted: 2017-11-17

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study