Effectiveness of manual physical therapy in treatment of plantar fasciopathy

Background: plantar fasciitis is now known as plantar fasciosis or fasciopathy (pf),is a common foot pain disorder in athletes and non-athletes. there is a pain along plantar side of the foot especially in heel and at the site of insertion of the fascia. objective: to determine the effectiveness of manual physical therapy in management of plantar fasciopathy. methods: referred patients of plantar fasciopathy filled a self-reported questionnaire,containing the foot and ankle ability measure (faam) and the numeric pain rating scale (nprs). all measures were taken at baseline and at 6 weeks follow up. treatment of pf in term of pain and function was measured with paired sample t-test. result: thirty (30) eligible patients (mean age 45.63 years (±sd10.81); 73.3% female) signed the consent form. the manual physical therapy group showed clinically sensitive and significant progress in term of pain and function over group ii of ultrasound and exercise. the group i showed clinically significant results in terms of faam [ci: 3.171,2.08] (p=0.001) after 6 weeks follow up. the group i also showed clinically significant improvment in terms of nprs [ci: 0.861,2.07],(p=0.001) after 6 weeks follow up. conclusion: the result of our study showed that manual physical therapy (mpt) is an effective treatment approach in treatment of plantar fasciopathy. © 2016,liaquat university of medical and health sciences. all rights reserved.