NCT03904966

The Effect of Kinesio-tape and Shock Wave Therapy on Plantar Fasciitis

Completed NA Last updated 2 June 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Kinesio tape in Plantar Fascitis in 45 participants. Completed in 15 September 2019.

Timeline

8 April 2019

Primary endpoint
5 August 2019

15 September 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hitit University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	45
Start date	8 April 2019
Primary completion	5 August 2019
Estimated completion	15 September 2019
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Kinesio tape
• Extracorporeal shock wave therapy

Conditions studied

• Plantar Fascitis — all drugs for Plantar Fascitis →
• Calcaneus Spur — all drugs for Calcaneus Spur →

Sponsor

Hitit University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 65, any sex, with Plantar Fascitis or Calcaneus Spur. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Foot problems are common in society. Accordingly, loss of workforce, quality of life and mental health deterioration can be observed in employees and hardship in daily life activities, balance-walking problems and fall risk increase in older adults. The presence of athletic and sedentary populations causes a large number of patients to apply to outpatient clinics with the complaint of heel pain every year. Plantar fasciitis (plantar heel pain), although multifactorial origin, obesity, overload bearing and ankle joint motion reduction factors are thought to play an active role in the emergence of discomfort.

Foot orthoses are a common treatment used for plantar heel pain, but a period of several weeks is usually required between the diagnosis and transportation to the orthosis due to the production process. Therefore, short-term therapies such as supportive banding are used to alleviate the symptoms of this intermediate period. The low-dye taping technique is the most commonly used banding technique and has been found to be effective in randomized controlled trials. In addition, there is a rare study in the literature showing the efficacy of Kinesio taping method. Although both were found to be useful in the treatment of plantar fasciitis, no randomized controlled trial was studied in this patient population of the low-dye method with Kinesio taping. In the studies, the early period of banding therapy is mentioned and studies on relatively longer treatment response are still required. Our hypothesis is that low-dye Kinesio-banding treatment added to ESWT treatment for patients diagnosed with plantar fasciitis will be effective on foot functionality by reducing the pain of the patient both in the early and later period.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Effects of adjuvant low-dye Kinesio taping, adjuvant sham taping, or extracorporeal shockwave therapy alone in plantar fasciitis: A randomised double-blind controlled trial.
   Bahar-Ozdemir Y, Atan T. · · 2021 · cited 17× · PMID 33410228 · DOI 10.1111/ijcp.13993