Plantar Plate Repair for Treatment of Floating Toe: Must we Associate it to Weil Osteotomy?

Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Floating Toe

Treatments: Procedure: Weil osteotomy; Procedure: Plantar plate repair

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05625282

IIBSP-FLO-2020-131

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to assess if isolated Weil osteotomy for floating toe grade II or III provides results that are not inferior to those obtained with the Weil osteotomy associated with plantar plate repair.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years old, minimum
• ability to understand treatment and recovery
• floating toe

Exclusion criteria

• age less than 18 years old at the moment of recruiting
• patients who are not able to understand treatment and recovery
• intraoperative diagnosis of plantar plate injury grade 0, I or IV in Nery's classification
• secondary surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Weil osteotomy and plantar plate repair

Treatment:

Procedure: Plantar plate repair

Procedure: Weil osteotomy

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Weil osteotomy alone

Treatment:

Procedure: Weil osteotomy