Plantar Fasciitis, Operation or Conservative Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare in a randomized controlled trial the effect of endoscopic operation with the standard conservative treatmentprotocol with training supplemented with 1-3 injections of glucocorticoids in patients with chronic plantar fasciopathia.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital
• Collaborator: The Danish Rheumatism Association
• Treatments: 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

• ultrasound scanning at the first visit shows thickness of the proximal 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

• long lasting 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.

• patients 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