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KMID : 0948920110100010055
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Clinical Pain
2011 Volume.10 No. 1 p.55 ~ p.59
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The Effect of Conservative Management on the Patients with Plantar Fibromatosis
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Lee Ga-Eun
Yi Tae-Im
Kim Bo-Kyoung
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Abstract
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Objective: To investigate the effects of conservative management on pain from plantar fibromatosis. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study analyzed the medical records of patients with plantar fibromatosis from February, 2008 to January, 2010. We discovered recent information of their pain through telephone interview. Results: Subjects were 17 men and 9 women patients. All patients took education for self care (100%), medication (88.5%), insole (76.9%) and steroid injection (7.7%). It took 465 (156∼937) days from the first OPD visit to telephone interview. Telephone interview revealed that patients carried out instructions well, kept wearing insole (57.7%) and took medication intermittently (3.8%). Their visual analogue scale (VAS) and score of foot function index improved significantly. Conclusion: Conservative management proved to be effective to treat the heel pain from plantar fibromatosis. Appliance of insole and self-care education for regular stretching, suitable shoes and lifestyle modification are beneficial to the treatment
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KEYWORD
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Fibromatosis plantar, Fibroma plantar
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