Comparison of Responsiveness of Different Pain and Disability Measurements in Plantar Fasciitis

Gaziosmanpasa Research and Education Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Plantar Fasciitis, Chronic

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04271696

GaziosmanpasaTREH12

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present study is compare the frequently used pain and disability assessment questionnaires before and after 5 sessions of standard treatment for patients admitted to the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation outpatient clinic for plantar fasciitis and who were queued to receive extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) treatment.

Full description

The study was designed as prospective observational research. Between December 2019 and May 2020, 90 patients who were admitted to the Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation outpatient clinic for ESWT were planned to be included in the study. Pre-treatment pain values of patients with 3 different examination methods (visual analog scale, numerical pain scale and heel sensitivity index), 3 different disability index Foot function index, Foot and Ankle Outcome Score, The American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) Ankle-Hindfoot Score will be used.

These methods will be evaluated before and after ESWT treatment and the responsiveness and minimal clinically important difference of the questionnaires will be compared.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients 18 years and older
• Patients with chronic heel complaints for more than 1 month
• Patients queued for ESWT

Exclusion criteria

• Patients under the age of 18
• Patients who do not want to participate in the study voluntarily
• Patient undergone physical therapy for the same heel in the last 6 months
• Patients treated for heel pain
• Rheumatologic diseases that cause heel pain (ankylosing spondylitis, Behçet's disease)
• Neurological diseases (such as diabetic polyneuropathy, postpolio syndrome)
• Patients with malignancy
• Illiterate patients with speech pathology