Plantar Fasciitis Common symptoms of Plantar Fasciitis and Heel Spurs are excruciating pain when you first get out of bed or when you stand following a period of rest. It can also result in arch pain in the foot after you have been standing for a long time. When the foot collapses inwards we see elongation of […]
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Heel Spur If you have been diagnoses with a Heel Spur then you will mostly have an X-Ray showing it. Heel Spurs rarely cause pain, they are the result of inflammation to that site, most commonly caused by the Plantar Fascia (refer to Plantar Fasciitis Treatment). You can have a plantar heel spur (under the […]
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Sever’s Disease, also known as Calcaneal Apophysitis, is a painful bone disorder that results from inflammation (swelling) of the growth plate in the heel. A growth plate, also called an epiphyseal plate, is an area at the end of a developing bone where cartilage cells change over time into bone cells. As this occurs, the […]
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Achilles Tendonitis & Achilles Tendinopathy One of the challenges we face when someone presents to us with Achilles heel pain problems is they received treatment for Achilles Tendonitis when they have Tendonoses or Achilles Tendinopathy. First, the correct diagnoses needs to be made. Second, the cause needs to be found. Third, the correct treatment needs to be prescribed. […]
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