Short-term Effects of a Myofascial Release on Elasticity in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis: A Pre-post Evaluation With Sonoelastography
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 62
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Changes in echointensity
研究概览
简要总结
Background: Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain in runners. No studies have described the short-term effects of myofascial release on plantar fasciitis using ultrasound.
Objectives: To describe the immediate sonoelastographic changes in the plantar fascia of amateur runners with fasciitis after applying a myofascial release technique.
Design: A single-centre, experimental and controlled study.
Method: Patients with plantar fasciitis and a group of healthy subjects will be examined using B-mode and real time sonoelastography scanning. Fascia thickness, echointensity and echovariation of the color histogram will be analyzed pre- and post intervention. A two-way (Group × Time) repeated measures ANOVA will be performed.
详细描述
Participants
Subjects of the plantar fasciitis group (PFG) will be recruited in May2018 to apply to them a myofascial release technique.
Healthy volunteers without a history of plantar fascia disease will be recruited as control group (CG).
The examination will be included B-mode scanning and real time sonoelastography using an US scanner with linear array transducer (ML6-15). All examinations will be conducted by a sonographer with more than 10 years' experience in musculoskeletal imaging.
Using a standardized protocol three images of every pre-post intervention video will be stored uncompressed and with no losses in bitmap format (bmp), and the mean value of the histogram components will be used for statistical analysis. The examination protocol shows good reliability, and has been reported previously.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •heel pain at the proximal fascia insertion
- •worse pain when waking up in the morning or after a period of rest
- •a visual analog score (VAS) of more than 4 on a scale of 10
排除标准
- •Patients who had undergone surgery or steroid injections to the heel will be excluded.
研究组 & 干预措施
plantar fasciitis group
Myofascial release technique
干预措施: Myofascial Release Technique (Procedure)
control group
None of the control group received the treatment
结局指标
主要结局
Changes in echointensity
时间窗: Measured twice. pre and post treatment. Post treatment examination will be carried out 10 minutes after the intervention concludes.
The EI of the color histogram computed the mean value of intensity of red, green and blue channels (color intensity range, 0-255) within a given area
Changes in Echovariation
时间窗: Measured twice. pre and post treatment. Post treatment examination will be carried out 10 minutes after the intervention concludes.
Determined as the relation between standard deviation and mean of pixel intensity obtained from the histogram
Changes in thickness of the plantar fascia
时间窗: Measured twice. pre and post treatment. Post treatment examination will be carried out 10 minutes after the intervention concludes.
Measured from the anterior edge of the inferior calcaneal border vertically to the inferior border of the plantar fascia
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
María Elena del Baño-Aledo
Principal Investigator
Universidad de Murcia