Prolotherapy for the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis

Réseau de Santé Vitalité Health Network

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 4

Conditions: Plantar Fasciitis

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise; Procedure: Dry needle injection; Procedure: Regenerative injection therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01326351

prolo-2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that prolotherapy in conjunction with a physiotherapy program looking at reinforcing calf muscle and muscle of the plantar fascia, relieves pain and improves function of people suffering of plantar fasciitis, an inflammation of the plantar fascia, after basic treatment failure.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• have a diagnosis of Plantar Fasciitis
• experience pain in the plantar fascia for more than 6 months
• be capable to understand and execute physiotherapy exercises

Exclusion criteria

• previous operation of the plantar fascia
• deformation of the foot (congenital or acquired)
• presence or suspicion of infection of the skin at the site where the injection will occur
• history of systemic diseases capable of inducing pain or sensitivity to the feet (seronegative arthritis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, etc.)
• abnormal coagulation
• allergy to lidocaine and/or marcaine
• pregnancy
• lumbar, hip or knee pain

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

Regenerative Injection Therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Regenerative injection therapy

Dry needle

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Dry needle injection

Exercise

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise