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Assessment of the kinesiotherapy’s efficacy in male athletes with calcaneal apophysitis

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, October 2017
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Title
Assessment of the kinesiotherapy’s efficacy in male athletes with calcaneal apophysitis
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13018-017-0637-5
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Ersin Kuyucu, Barış Gülenç, Hüseyin Biçer, Mehmet Erdil

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of kinesiotherapy used for treating various disorders in athletes on pain and pedal functions in patients with calcaneal apophysitis. This prospective randomized controlled study included 22 patients with calcaneal apophysitis aged 8 to 16 years presenting with heel pain among junior athletes of a professional football club. The patients were randomly grouped into two groups, with one group receiving sham tape only and the other kinesio tape. American Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS) and visual analog scale (VAS) scores were recorded before and after the treatment. The preoperative VAS score of the kinesio tape was 7, and AOFAS score was 62.4; the corresponding figures of the sham group were 6.81 and 70.5, respectively. The kinesio-tape group had a better AOFAS scores at 1st and 3rd month (p < 0.05). Posttreatment AOFAS score was 99.7 ± 0.9 for the kinesio-tape group and 97.4 ± 3.9 for the sham-tape group. Posttreatment VAS score was 0.1 ± 0.3 for the kinesio-tape group and 0.4 ± 0.5 for the sham-tape group (p > 0.05). Conservative treatment modalities are preferentially used for its treatment. Kinesiotherapy is one of the treatment methods for the apophysitis. In the literature, our study is the first prospective randomized trial on the efficacy of kinesio taping in calcaneal apophysitis. Although kinesio taping can be effectively used for the restoration of ankle functions of athletes with calcaneal apophysitis, its role in pain is limited. Since it lacks serious side effects, it can be used in combination with or as an alternative to pharmacological treatment in this patient group.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 172 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 26 15%
Student > Master 18 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 5%
Student > Postgraduate 8 5%
Researcher 7 4%
Other 24 14%
Unknown 80 47%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 30 17%
Sports and Recreations 13 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Unspecified 2 1%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 82 48%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 April 2020.
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#5,135,095
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#197
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#86,001
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#2
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