NCT03725917

Patients With Diabetic Neuropathy Who Receive Physiotherapy Treatment Will Have a Decrease in Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Efficacy of a Protocol of Intervention in Physiotherapy in the Prevention of Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Patients With Diabetic Neuropathy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 143 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidad Complutense de Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effects of a physiotherapy protocol (manual therapy and exercise) in the prevention of diabetic foot ulcers in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A group of participants will receive a physiotherapy protocol added to their usual medical treatment and the other group will not receive physiotherapy treatment.

Detailed description

Neuropathic diabetic patients present alterations in joint mobility, plantar pressures and ankle and foot function, characteristics related to the development of ulcers. In previous studies, it has been observed that physiotherapy protocols have produced improvements in joint mobility, magnitude of plantar pressures, distribution of plantar pressures, and improved function in the ankle and foot. A 12-week progressive physiotherapy protocol composed of manual therapy and exercise could produce changes in foot and ankle characteristics in diabetic neuropathic patients related to tissue damage, resulting in a reduction in ulcerations.

Conditions

• Diabetic Foot Ulcer
• Diabetic Neuropathy Peripheral

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physiotherapy protocol	The intervention will consist of a physiotherapy protocol twice a week for twelve weeks. The protocol will be done in three phases, constituting each month, a phase of the protocol. The first two phases will include therapeutic exercise of progressive difficulty and manual therapy, while the last phase will include only one week of manual therapy and therapeutic exercise, the last three weeks being composed only of therapeutic exercise

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-25
• Primary completion: 2019-12-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2018-10-31
• Last updated: 2019-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain