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Heel Pain – Plantar Fasciitis

Heel Pain – Plantar Fasciitis

Plantar fasciitis, the most usual reason for heel pain, happens when a hard group of tissue that bumps into the bottom of foot and links the heel bone to the toes get inflammation.
This foot problem is the main reason for feeling stabbing pain with first steps in the morning. When a patient gets up and walks, the pain gradually reduces. But after a long time of standing or sitting, the pain will return.
In fact plantar fasciitis happens more among the runners and people with overweight.

Symptoms and signs

As mentioned before, plantar fasciitis normally leads to feeling stabbing ache in the underneath of the foot close to the heel. As a matter of fact people with plantar fasciitis experience dull and stabbing pain. The symptoms include:
  • Feeling pain on the underneath of the heel or arch of the foot
  • Enhancing pain after doing sports
  • Feeling a painful ache in the morning or after sitting for a long time
  • An inflamed heel
  • Feeling constant pain
  • Involving a thick Achilles tendon

Causes

Tolerating extreme pressure and stretching harms makes our plantar fascia inflamed or torn.
Some factors that can cause plantar fasciitis are:
  • Involving with flat feet
  • Wearing inappropriate shoes
  • Being obese
  • Being an athlete, runner and jumper
  • Doing exercise on a rough surface.
  • standing for a long time.
  • Working out without properly stretching

Treatment of plantar fasciitis in Dubai

Following home treatments of plantar fasciitis are effective on more than 90% of patients who suffer from this disease.
  • Doing stretching exercises on calf muscles
  • Wearing supportive and suitable shoes
  • Applying splint
  • Massaging the injured region
  • Putting ice
  • Restricting some special physical activity
  • Using staddle and crutch
  • Losing weight

Other clinical treatments include:

  • Injecting cortisone
  • Doing Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT)
Sometimes, when none of the mentioned approaches are not effective surgery might be recommended. Two kinds of surgery exist:
  • Gastrocnemius recession
  • Plantar fascia release