A comparison of shock wave treatment versus steroid injection in the treatment of heel pai
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Plantar Fasciitis
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/12/010975
- Lead Sponsor
- Armed Forces Medical College
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
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Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 501
1) Patients of more than 18 years of age with plantar heel pain, worse on rising in the morning and/or after periods of sitting or lying, and present for at least 6 weeks.
2) On examination, the site of maximal tenderness is at the calcaneal attachment of the plantar fascia.
3) Pain aggravated by hopping on the foot and relieved with tie-beam taping
4) Patients satisfying the above criteria and who have already received unsuccessful conservative therapy in the form of passive stretching exercises, NSAIDS, rest, local heat or cold.
1)Previous surgery, CSI, or ESWT for heel pain.
2)Clinical features suggestive of seronegative spondyloarthropathy.
3)Clinical features suggestive of complex regional pain syndrome.
4)Local arthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, DM, local or systemic infection, PVD, metabolic disease such as gout, clotting disorder, anticoagulant therapy, or the presence of a cardiac pacemaker.
5)Age less than 18 years.
6)Pregnancy
7)Nerve-related symptoms (Baxter nerve entrapment, radiculopathy, tarsal tunnel syndrome).
8)Localized dysfunction of the knee, ankle, or foot.
9)Work-related or compensable injury.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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