NCT06456944

Effect of Selected Rehabilitation Program in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis

Effect of Selected Rehabilitation Program on Pain, Function, and Plantar Fascia Thickness in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Horus University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will be done to investigate the effect of the selected rehabilitation program for PF on plantar fascia thickness, clinical outcomes such as pain, foot function, dorsiflexion ROM and pressure pain threshold and alignment such as rearfoot eversion angle and foot posture index in patients with PF.

Detailed description

Plantar fasciitis (PF), which constitutes approximately 15% of all foot disorders, is the most prevalent cause of heel pain. It is a long-term degenerative process that is impacted by subtalar pronation and pes planus. One million US patients saw primary care physicians with PF between 1995 and 2000. There is not enough data to determine the best physical therapy management techniques for individuals with heel pain, despite the existence of multiple successful treatment approaches. this study investigated at how a mechanically based rehabilitation program affected patients with PF in terms of foot alignment, plantar fascia thickness, pain, pressure pain threshold, ROM and foot function. The approach included strengthening the plantar intrinsic muscles of the foot, plantar fascia specific stretching and Achilles tendon stretching, and passively correcting the pathomechanics of the foot by low dye tapping and high load resistance exercise for Achilles tendon and windlass mechanism

Conditions

• Plantar Fascitis
• Plantar Fasciitis, Chronic
• Heel Pain Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	stretching exercises	stretching exercises of the plantar fascia, gastrocnemius and soleus
DEVICE	ultrasound	therapeutic ultrasound upon the most painful point on the medial calcaneal tubercle. The parameters involved a pulsed mode (duty cycle 50%) using an intensity of 1.5 W/cm2 and a 1 MHz of frequency for 5 minutes
OTHER	rigid tape	low-dye tapping will be done to provide mechanical correction to plantar fascia and medial longitudinal arch
OTHER	mobilization	mobilization techniques for the talocrural joint in weight bearing and non-bearing positions and subtalar joint
OTHER	myofascial release	deep tissue release of the plantar fascia and flexor hallucis longus in a stretched position of the plantar fascia
OTHER	strengthening exercise	strengthening exercise of the plantar intrinsic muscles using short foot exercise and strengthening of the Achilles tendon and windlass mechanism using unilateral heel raise exercises

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-06-15
• Primary completion: 2025-03-15
• Completion: 2025-04-15
• First posted: 2024-06-13
• Last updated: 2025-07-22

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Egypt