Effects of Adding Hip Strengthening to Manual Therapy for Heel Pain Patients
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 终止
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 8
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Level of intensity of pain
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of manual therapy and of manual therapy associated with hip strengthening in the recovery of patients with heel pain.
Heel pain decreases function, balance, walking and can cause change in the movement pattern. This alterations can induce a deficit in motor control of other structures as knee and hip. There is an importance to compare the effects of manual therapy and manual therapy associated with hip strengthening on the recover of patients with heel pain.
详细描述
After the initial assessment and data collection, participants will be randomly assigned to one of two intervention groups. Randomization will be held electronically in http://graphpad.com/quickcalcs/index.cfm site by simple random sampling. Patients will be treated for a maximum of 10 sessions, each session lasting about 40 minutes and each week two sessions. The maximum duration of treatment is 3 months. A physical therapist will be responsible for the screening of eligible patients and the random allocation of participants A second professional will be responsible for physical therapy initial and final evaluation and will be blind to the interventions. A third physical therapist will perform the interventions. The physiotherapist in charge of intervention will be blind to the initial and final evaluation.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 60 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients with heel pain, that increases on the first steps after a period without activity and with long periods on standing position, regardless of age and gender and that didn't went under any physiotherapeutic treatment in the last 3 months.
排除标准
- •Patients who have a history of surgery on the lower limb on the past 6 months; patients with bilateral heel pain; patients under psychiatric treatment; patients that went under a manual therapy scheme treatment for heel pain before; rheumatic syndromes; patients who receive some benefit labor or patients underage.
研究组 & 干预措施
Manual Therapy
The treatment for this group will be manual therapy.
干预措施: Manual Therapy (Other)
Manual Therapy and Hip Strengthening
It will be done the same treatment performed in group 1 plus the strengthening of the muscles of the hip.
干预措施: Manual Therapy and Hip Strengthening (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Level of intensity of pain
时间窗: Up to three months
Level of intensity of pain assessed through the numerical pain scale.
次要结局
- Functional Status(Up to three months)
- Pressure pain threshold(Up to three months)