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Radial Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis

INTRODUCTION: Patients with plantar fasciitis usually suffer from reduced mobility due to the pain caused by the movement of the tendons involved. AIM: This study was aimed to compare both shockwave and ultrasound therapies in patients with plantar fasciitis by assessing the pain intensity, and both...

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Autores principales: Dedes, Vasileios, Tzirogiannis, Konstantinos, Polikandrioti, Maria, Dede, Ariadni Maria, Nikolaidis, Christos, Mitseas, Athanasios, Panoutsopoulos, Georgios I.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31213743
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2019.27.45-49
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author Dedes, Vasileios
Tzirogiannis, Konstantinos
Polikandrioti, Maria
Dede, Ariadni Maria
Nikolaidis, Christos
Mitseas, Athanasios
Panoutsopoulos, Georgios I.
author_facet Dedes, Vasileios
Tzirogiannis, Konstantinos
Polikandrioti, Maria
Dede, Ariadni Maria
Nikolaidis, Christos
Mitseas, Athanasios
Panoutsopoulos, Georgios I.
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description INTRODUCTION: Patients with plantar fasciitis usually suffer from reduced mobility due to the pain caused by the movement of the tendons involved. AIM: This study was aimed to compare both shockwave and ultrasound therapies in patients with plantar fasciitis by assessing the pain intensity, and both the functionality of the lower limbs and the quality of life impairments. METHODS: Total amount of 88 patients with plantar fasciitis constituted the shockwave group, 56 the ultrasound group and 15 the control group. The self-administered questionnaire “University of Peloponnese Pain, Functionality and Quality of Life Questionnaire” was used. The intensity of pain, functionality impairment and quality of life impairment were evaluated on a five-point Likert scale, before treatment, immediately after and at 4-week follow-up. RESULTS: The pain reduction and the improvement of functionality and quality of life after shockwave treatment and ultrasound treatment significantly increased both post-treatment (p<0,001) and at the 4-week follow-up (p<0,001) compared to post-treatment. However, the improvements in the ultrasound group were not as pronounced as in shockwave group (p<0,001). CONCLUSIONS: Although both radial shockwave and ultrasound therapies were found to be effective in patients with plantar fasciitis, the statistical analysis showed that radial shockwave is significantly more effective than ultrasound therapy.
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spelling pubmed-65112722019-06-18 Radial Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis Dedes, Vasileios Tzirogiannis, Konstantinos Polikandrioti, Maria Dede, Ariadni Maria Nikolaidis, Christos Mitseas, Athanasios Panoutsopoulos, Georgios I. Acta Inform Med Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Patients with plantar fasciitis usually suffer from reduced mobility due to the pain caused by the movement of the tendons involved. AIM: This study was aimed to compare both shockwave and ultrasound therapies in patients with plantar fasciitis by assessing the pain intensity, and both the functionality of the lower limbs and the quality of life impairments. METHODS: Total amount of 88 patients with plantar fasciitis constituted the shockwave group, 56 the ultrasound group and 15 the control group. The self-administered questionnaire “University of Peloponnese Pain, Functionality and Quality of Life Questionnaire” was used. The intensity of pain, functionality impairment and quality of life impairment were evaluated on a five-point Likert scale, before treatment, immediately after and at 4-week follow-up. RESULTS: The pain reduction and the improvement of functionality and quality of life after shockwave treatment and ultrasound treatment significantly increased both post-treatment (p<0,001) and at the 4-week follow-up (p<0,001) compared to post-treatment. However, the improvements in the ultrasound group were not as pronounced as in shockwave group (p<0,001). CONCLUSIONS: Although both radial shockwave and ultrasound therapies were found to be effective in patients with plantar fasciitis, the statistical analysis showed that radial shockwave is significantly more effective than ultrasound therapy. Academy of Medical sciences 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6511272/ /pubmed/31213743 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2019.27.45-49 Text en © 2019 Vasileios Dedes, Konstantinos Tzirogiannis, Maria Polikandrioti, Ariadni Maria Dede, Christos Nikolaidis, Athanasios Mitseas, Georgios I. Panoutsopoulos http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Paper
Dedes, Vasileios
Tzirogiannis, Konstantinos
Polikandrioti, Maria
Dede, Ariadni Maria
Nikolaidis, Christos
Mitseas, Athanasios
Panoutsopoulos, Georgios I.
Radial Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis
title Radial Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis
title_full Radial Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis
title_fullStr Radial Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis
title_full_unstemmed Radial Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis
title_short Radial Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis
title_sort radial extra corporeal shockwave therapy versus ultrasound therapy in the treatment of plantar fasciitis
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31213743
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2019.27.45-49
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