Optimal Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis: Physical Training, Glucocorticoid Injections or a Combination Thereof.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether reduced load to patients with plantar fasciitis (reduced standing, walking, landing) together with either controlled heavy resistance training or glucocorticosteroid injection or a combination thereof is the best treatment.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital
• Collaborator: Fonden for Faglig Udvikling af Speciallægepraksis, Denmark
• Treatments: Glucocorticoids; Methylprednisolone; Methylprednisolone Acetate; Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate; Prednisolone; Prednisolone acetate; Prednisolone hemisuccinate; Prednisolone phosphate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pain at the medial attachment of fascia plantaris.

• First step pain in the morning

• Symptoms for at least 3 months.

• Age 20-65 years

• Ultrasound scanning at the first visit shows thickness of the fascia above 4 mm.

• Patient can read and understand danish

Exclusion Criteria:

• known arthritis, inflammatory bowl disease, psoriasis or clinical signs of any of these

• Leg ulcerations

• Longlasting oedema of the leg and foot

• Palpatory decreased puls in the foot

• Diabetes

• Reduced sensibility in the foot

• Infections in the foot

• Daily use of pain killers

• Pregnancy or planning to become pregnant

• Earlier operations on the foot, that is judged to complicate training

• Patient assessed not to be able to participate in the training for other reasons

• Glucocorticosteroid injection to the diseased plantar fascia within the last 6 months.