Plantar Pressure Distribution in Patient With Multiple Sclerosis

Hacettepe University

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Multiple Sclerosis

Treatments

Other: No intervention

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02947906

G0 16/344

Details and patient eligibility

About

Fifty patients who were referred to receive physiotherapy and 20 healthy volunteers will be participants of the study.Participants with multiple sclerosis will evaluate with the following assessment tools: Modified Ashworth scale will use to evaluation of severity of plantar flexor spasticity. Plantar pressure distribution parameters will assess with dynamic pedobarography.

Full description

Fifty patients who were referred to receive physiotherapy at the neurology department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Hacettepe University, Ankara with multiple sclerosis and twenty voluntary healthy age matched participants will be the subjects of this study.

Assessment tools described as following: Modified Ashworth scale will use to evaluate of severity of plantar flexor spasticity. Static and dynamic loading parameters will be evaluate with pedobarography.Maximum loading pressure -N/cm2, maximum loading time- ms for; 1st. and 5th metatarsal head, medial and lateral heel and midfoot will be recorded both while the patients standing and walking.

Enrollment

70 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 55 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Want to participate Individuals with multiple sclerosis who can walk alone for 30 meters Healthy participants who diagnosed no disorders or orthopedic problems.

Exclusion criteria

Want to participate Individuals with multiple sclerosis who can walk alone for 50 meters Healthy participants who diagnosed no disorders or orthopedic problems.