جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « ارتز اصلاح شده » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

Plantar fasciitis is due to irritation and inflammation of the plantar fascia, which may occur in patients aged 30-60 years old. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of new modified foot orthosis on improving the quality of daily life, sport and recreational activities in patients with plantar fasciitis. This clinical trial study was done at orthotics and prosthetics clinics in Tehran during Aug 2007 to May 2008. 15 patients with plantar fasciitis including 4 male and 11 female with ranging age 25-45 yrs old (35±5.02) were selected by non probability sampling. Patients used new modified foot orthosis. FAOS questionnaire was used for evaluating the activity daily life and sport and recreational activities. 2 stages included: once before intervention and the second stage after 4 weeks after intervention. Data analysis has been done with paired T-Test, Smironov-Kolomogrov by SPSS-13. Quality of daily life was 44.30±10.16 before interventional treatment and 61.08±16.26 after intervention and difference between two stages was not statistically significant. The results for sport and recreational activity were 26.50±10.09 before interventional treatment and 52.50±12.23 after intervention and difference between two stages was statistically significant (P<0.05). This study showed that the new modified foot orthosis was no effective on improving of activity daily life but, was effective in sport and recreational activities in patients with plantar fasciitis.

Plantar fascia inflammation will result in plantar fasciitis. Nonsurgical treatments include the use of orthosis and physical therapy techniques. The goal of this study was a comparison between the effect of functional foot orthosis and modified foot orthosis on improvement of pain in patients with plantar fasciitis. In this experimental study, 30 patients with plantar fasciitis including 7 male and 23 female, age 25-45 yrs old (34±4.64, 35±5.02), were selected by non probability sampling. Patients were randomly allocated in two groups with 15 patients in each group. First group used functional foot orthosis and second group used modified foot orthosis. FAOS questionnaire was used for evaluating the pain, once before intervention and once 4 weeks after the intervention. Data were analyzed using paired and independent T-test and Smironov-Kolomogrov in SPSS13. The difference between groups with functional foot orthosis, before and after the intervention was 0.001, using paired T-test and it was 0.229 in group with modified foot orthosis. Independent T-Test showed a significant difference between two groups after the intervention (p<0.05). According to the findings of this study, functional foot orthosis was more effective on improvement of pain in patients with plantar fasciitis than modified foot orthosis.