مقايسه تاثير گوه داخلي خلف پا با گوه خارجي قدام پا بر بهبود ميزان فعاليتهاي روزمره و پرداختن به فعاليتهاي ورزشي و سرگرمي و درد دربيماران مبتلا به پلانتار فاشياتيس

Comparison between Medial Heel Wedge Effectand Lateral Forefoot Wedge Effecton Improvement of Activity Daily Living, Sportand RecreationalActivities and Pain in PlantarFasciitis Patients

Objective: Plant ar fasciiti s is one of the mos t common foot complications . Pain appear at the inside par t of the an terior ma rgin of ca lcaneous bone. The goal of this study wa s a comparative between the effect of med ia l heel wedge and lateral forefoot wedge on improvement of Activity da ily living, Spo rt and pain in these patients . Materials & Methods: In this inter ventional and qua si experimen tal study, 30 patien ts with plan tar fasci itis including 12 male and 18 fema le with 36 invol ved extremi ties were se lected by non probab ility sampling . Th e patients were allocated in two groups with 15 patients in each group by random assig nment. First group used medi al heel wedge and second group used lat eral forefoot wedge . Variab ies includi ng ac ti vity dail y Iiving, sport and recr eat ional ac tivity. step length were measured in 3 stages . In order to evalua ting of the var iables FAGS quest io nnaire was used . 3 stages included : once before interve ntion and the seco nd and third stages af ter 2 weeks and the third stage 4 weeks after intervention . Alp ha cronbach in all subscales were more than 0/7 1 and test retest correlation in all subscales were more than 0/80 . Data ana lysis has been do ne with T-Test, SmironovKolomogrov, Alpha Cro nbac h and Correlat ion Coefficient. Results: In bo th follow up stages, the change of variab les including ac tiv ity daily living, spo rt and recreational activi ty and pain was significant (p