Physiotherapy for Chronic Metatarsalgia

Spiraldynamik AG

Status: Completed

Conditions: Metatarsalgia

Treatments: Other: physiotherapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02578615

2014-0528 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The pilot study was conducted in the form of an open prospective single-arm observational study with 28 patients who received physiotherapy at the Spiraldynamik® Med Center in Zurich.

Full description

The pilot study was conducted in the form of an open prospective single-arm observational study. The data of 28 patients who received physiotherapy at the Spiraldynamik® Med Center in Zurich was evaluated. The endpoints of Visual Analog Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS FA), Activity Index (AI), plantar and inter-metatarsal pres-sure pain, rearfoot angle and dorsal extension capability of the upper ankle joint were individually compared and analyzed before and after therapy.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• main diagnosis: Metatarsalgia
• secondary diagnosis: Hallux rigidus,Hallux valgus, Knick-Senk-Spreizfuß, Hohlfuß
• age 30-75 Jahre, gender both
• chronic ( ≥ 3 month),
• pain ≥ 1 visuell analog scale (VAS)
• no other complementary therapy

Exclusion criteria

• local: trauma, fracture, tumore, infectionen
• pain after forefoot - operation
• neurological diseases
• generell: somatoform, pension covet