Training Intrinsic Foot Muscles

NCT03670563 NA COMPLETED

The foot intrinsic muscles are increasingly targeted in foot and ankle rehabilitation. The exercises are often difficult to learn initially. The purpose of the proposed study is to examine the effect training the intrinsic foot muscles on performance in selected physical and functional measures such as balance, plantar pressure during gait, vertical jump, and foot posture. In addition,the investigators will compare one group training with traditional exercise instruction methods and one group using an adjunctive modality (neuromuscular electric stimulation) during the introductory phases of exercise instruction. The investigators are interested in how this modality might affect physical and functional outcome measures and if it affects participants' frustration with learning a new exercise.

Details

Lead sponsor	St. Louis University
Phase	NA
Status	COMPLETED
Enrolment	39
Start date	Wed Oct 10 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Completion	Fri Apr 05 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Conditions

• Muscular Weakness

Interventions

• Short foot exercise protocol
• Short foot exercise plus NMES

Countries

United States