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Plantar Fascitis: later-stage trial registry

2 of 8 indexed Plantar Fascitis trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #2,176 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

8 US clinical trials · 2 currently recruiting · #2,176 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Plantar Fascitis: 8 US clinical trials tracked, 2 recruiting.

Plantar Fascitis is the subject of 8 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 2 of them currently open to new participants. 1 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 0 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Rothman Institute Orthopaedics, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition plantar-fascitis

OPEN 2 | RECR 25% | LATE 1 | EARLY 0 | RANK #2176 | SPON 1

Nearest open-share peer: Abdominal Pain (25% recruiting · 20 trials)

Activity, Motor75%Achalasia50%Abdominal Cancer25%Acne Scars - Mixed Atrophic 25%Plantar Fascitis (this)25%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Plantar Fascitis

Plantar Fascitis lists 2 open slots (25% of 8 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Plantar Fascitis on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Plantar Fascitis is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    2 of 8 indexed trials (25%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Plantar Fascitis trials is spread across many organizations.

    Rothman Institute Orthopaedics accounts for 1 of 8 trials (12.5%). 8 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Plantar Fascitis trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 83 among the 8 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 6 of those (75%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Plantar Fascitis research is mostly interventional.

    8 interventional and 0 observational studies make up this index (100% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 41

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 4 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Plantar Fascitis records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Acupunture Device
1 trials
Plantar Flexor and Gastrocnemius Stretching Other
1 trials
High-Load Strength Training Other
1 trials
Instrumental-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) Other
1 trials
Minimalist Shoes Behavioral
1 trials
Home therapy Other
1 trials
Shockwave therapy device Device
1 trials
Focused shockwave therapy Procedure
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Plantar Fascitis trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Pennsylvania 2 trials
Virginia 1 trials
Texas 1 trials
South Carolina 1 trials
New York 1 trials
Nevada 1 trials
Illinois 1 trials
California 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Plantar Fascitis page

8 registered trials, 2 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Plantar Fascitis condition card totals 8 registered trials; most-linked intervention Acupunture; top US site state Pennsylvania. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.