Medial calcaneal neuropathy: a missed etiology of chronic plantar heel pain
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Medial calcaneal neuropathy: A rare cause of prolonged heel pain.
Pain heel constitutes 15% of foot pain. Pain may be caused by plantar fasciitis, calcaneal fractures, calcaneal apophysitis, heel pad atrophy, inflammatory diseases or related with nerve involvement. Tibial, plantar and/or medial nerve entrapment are the neural causes of pain. Most of the heel soft tissue sensation is provided by medial calcaneal nerve. Diagnosis of heel pain due to neural caus...
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عنوان ژورنال: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1110-161X,2090-3235
DOI: 10.4103/err.err_16_17