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Training Intrinsic Foot Muscles

NCT03670563 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 39

Last updated 2019-05-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Muscular Weakness

Interventions

OTHER

Short foot exercise protocol

Exercises that target intrinsic foot muscles

OTHER

Short foot exercise plus NMES

Exercises that target intrinsic foot muscles supplemented by NMES for muscle re-education

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Louis University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine Newsham, PhD · St. Louis University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-10-10
Primary Completion
2019-04-05
Completion
2019-04-05

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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