The report of this trial followed the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) 2010 updated guidelines for reporting randomized controlled trials [58 (link)]. This study was a single-centre, hospital-based, open-label, parallel-group randomized clinical trial to compare the effect of PRP injection with steroid injection in the treatment of Plantar fasciitis between August 2020 and March 2022. The study was conducted in the outpatient department of Nepal Orthopaedic Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. It is one of the Orthopaedic and Trauma care super-speciality centres in Nepal that provides only orthopaedic services. It is a 100 bedded charitable autonomous hospital run under the Nepal Disabled Association of Nepal with the support of the Patan Rotary club, Nepal, and different International Rotary Clubs [59 ]. The patients aged 18 to 60 years with a history of heel pain of more than six weeks with tenderness on palpation over medial calcaneum tuberosity and diagnosed as PF, those patients with failure of conservative treatment with physiotherapy, splints, and NSAIDs, those patients who were mentally fit, and those patients who provided written informed consent were included in the study. The patients with lumbar radiculopathy, existing trauma, previous surgery or any foot pathology, under aspirin treatment, bleeding disorders with low platelet counts, and systemic diseases like diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis were excluded.
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