Efficacy of the Transition of the Foot Strike Pattern on Pain and Disability in Cadets With Musculoskeletal Pain
TerminatedNot applicableNCT04166136
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
To investigate the efficacy of the footstrike pattern transition from rearfoot to midfoot / forefoot pattern compared to lower limb muscle strengthening exercises and lumbar spine region on decreasing the intensity of chronic musculoskeletal pain in cadets from Naval School. Methods: A randomized controlled trial with blind evaluator and allocation of participants in three parallel groups will be performed. Participating in the study, 81 cadets of the Naval Academy of Rio de Janeiro, between 18 and 24 years of age with chronic musculoskeletal pain in the lower limbs or in the lumbar region and who have the rearfoot as footstrike pattern. Participants will be randomly assigned into the following groups: (1) footstrike pattern transition from rearfoot to midfoot / forefoot; (2) muscle strengthening of the lower limbs and lower back; and (3) usual treatment group. Primary treatment outcomes will be pain and specific disability measured twelve weeks after randomization. Secondary treatment outcomes will be pain and specific disability measured six and nine months after randomization. An intention-to-treat analysis will be performed using mixed linear models to compare outcomes between groups.
Study details
- Official title
- Efficacy of the Transition of the Foot Strike Pattern From Rearfoot to Midfoot or Forefoot During Running on Pain and Disability in Cadets With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Transition from the Rearfoot to the Forefoot and Midfoot
- Other: Usual Treatment Group
- Other: Muscle Strengthening Group
- Sponsor
- Centro Universitário Augusto Motta
- Collaborators
- Naval School
- Start date
- 2019-06-15
- Primary completion
- 2020-08-30
- Sex
- Male
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 25 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. chronic musculoskeletal pain in the lower limbs and / or non-specific chronic low back pain that is related to running ("persistent pain" will be considered "chronic" for more than three months). Information on pain will be based on a self-completion questionnaire; 2. rearfoot as a foot strike pattern; 3. present at least one run-related limitation on the Specific Functional Scale of the Patient (EFEP); 4. practice running 2 to 5 times a week. Exclusion Criteria: 1. have undergone a surgical procedure in the lower limbs and / or the lower back in the last six months; 2. have performed invasive procedures for pain relief in the last three months; do not present a history of acute trauma such as fractures in the last six months, infection, signs of radiculopathy, compression of the marrow or equine tail.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04166136