Plantar Fasciitis

Question 1

What are risk factors for plantar fasciitis?

Answer 1

1) Obesity
2) Non-athletic persons
3) Endurance activities (running, dancing

Question 2

What are symptoms of plantar fasciitis?

Answer 2

Pain at medial tubercle of calcaneus
Pain worse at end of day after prolonged standing
Insidious onset of pain, usually with first steps out of bed

Question 3

Treatment for plantar fasciitis?

Answer 3

Plantar fascia and achilles tendon stretching programs; night splints, injection
At 6 months can do shock wave tx
At 9 months consider release of fascia; combine with tarsal tunnel decompression

Question 4

Do achilles or plantar fascia specific stretching programs show better efficacy for plantar fascia tx?

Answer 4

Plantar fascia specfic