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Plantar Pressure Distribution in Patient With Multiple Sclerosis

Conditions
Multiple Sclerosis
Interventions
Other: No intervention
Registration Number
NCT02947906
Lead Sponsor
Hacettepe University
Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
70
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.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Study groupNo interventionParticipants with multiple sclerosis who able to walk at least 30 meters independently.
Control GroupNo interventionHealthy participants
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pedobarography for assessment of foot pressure while standing and walkingInitially evaluation at first minute, Change from initial evaluation to 20th minutes, Change from initial evaluation to 24 hours, Change from initial evaluation to 24 hours and 20 minutes

Participant stands and walks on system name is pedobarography which records foot pressure. Foot pressure means, gravitational force reflecting from ground at every foot step phase. Newton/cm2 is the unit of measure.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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