Plantar heel pain

摘要

First steps: A patients description of rising in the morning, placing their feet upon the floor, and their first step eliciting pain under the foot (see Fig. 1), usually alerts the health professional to the likely possibility that the diagnosis will be related to the plantar fascia. The pain may subside and return later in the day particularly if the patient has been on their feet, but improves with rest. Heel pain can also present following an increase in weight bearing activity. (McPoil et al., 2008; Martin et al., 2014; Berbrayer and Fredericson, 2014). The diagnosis of Plantar fasciopathies is made by assessing the clinical picture as there is no gold standard test for the condition (Beeson, 2014).