Myofascial Release in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis

Universidad de Murcia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Plantar Fasciitis

Treatments: Procedure: Myofascial Release Technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03506464

Sono2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain in runners. No studies have described the short-term effects of myofascial release on plantar fasciitis using ultrasound.

Objectives: To describe the immediate sonoelastographic changes in the plantar fascia of amateur runners with fasciitis after applying a myofascial release technique.

Design: A single-centre, experimental and controlled study.

Method: Patients with plantar fasciitis and a group of healthy subjects will be examined using B-mode and real time sonoelastography scanning. Fascia thickness, echointensity and echovariation of the color histogram will be analyzed pre- and post intervention. A two-way (Group × Time) repeated measures ANOVA will be performed.

Full description

Participants

Subjects of the plantar fasciitis group (PFG) will be recruited in May2018 to apply to them a myofascial release technique.

Healthy volunteers without a history of plantar fascia disease will be recruited as control group (CG).

The examination will be included B-mode scanning and real time sonoelastography using an US scanner with linear array transducer (ML6-15). All examinations will be conducted by a sonographer with more than 10 years' experience in musculoskeletal imaging.

Using a standardized protocol three images of every pre-post intervention video will be stored uncompressed and with no losses in bitmap format (bmp), and the mean value of the histogram components will be used for statistical analysis. The examination protocol shows good reliability, and has been reported previously.

ImageJ 1.45 software will be used to perform quantitative analysis of gray-scale images and the color histogram of the elastogram.

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• heel pain at the proximal fascia insertion
• worse pain when waking up in the morning or after a period of rest
• a visual analog score (VAS) of more than 4 on a scale of 10

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who had undergone surgery or steroid injections to the heel will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

plantar fasciitis group

Experimental group

Description:

Myofascial release technique

Treatment:

Procedure: Myofascial Release Technique

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

None of the control group received the treatment