Plantar Fasciitis Randomized Clinical Control Trial
Sponsored by University of Pennsylvania
About this trial
Last updated 3 years ago
Study ID
Status
Type
Phase
Placebo
Accepting
Trial Timing
Ended 2 years ago
What is this trial about?
What are the participation requirements?
Inclusion Criteria
- Pain on palpation along the proximal plantar fascia with or without radiographic evidence of a plantar calcaneal bone spur
- ≥18 years of age
- Male or non-pregnant female of any ethnicity or race
- Active, former or non smoker
- With or without peripheral vascular disease without lower extremity intermittent claudication or rest pain
- With or without diabetes mellitus without polyneuropathy
- With or without collagen vascular disease without lower extremity wound formation.
Exclusion Criteria
- Known drug or alcohol dependence
- Chronic pain syndrome or lumbosacral radiculitis
- Neurological condition that requires the use of analgesic medications or anti-seizure or neuroleptic medications
- Peripheral vascular disease that results in rest pain or intermittent claudication or venous stasis ulceration
- Calcaneal stress fracture or show evidence of a foreign body or tumor of the affected heel as viewed radiographically
- Pregnant females
- Known allergy to any of the components of the injection therapy
- Previously suffered a rupture or surgery of the plantar fascia within the 5 years preceding participation in the investigation
- Existing or prior osteomyelitis of the involved calcaneus
- Unable to consent to participation in clinical research or currently be involved in another clinical investigation.