BACKGROUND It remains unclear whether application of local anesthesia (LA) interferes with clinical efficacy of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) for chronic plantar fasciitis. AIMS To evaluate the effect of local anesthesia on the clinical outcome after repetitive low-energy ESWT for chronic plantar fasciitis. METHODS Eighty-six patients with chronic plantar fasciitis were randomly ...

We are presenting a case report of a 10-year-old male with a 1 year history of bilateral heel pain. Sever disease is self limiting condition of calcaneal apophysis. It is the most common cause of heel pain in the growing child. There is no documented case of this condition in this region. This case highlights the clinical features of this self limiting disorder as seen in this patient and revie...

Plantar fasciitis (PF) is present in 10% of the population and is the most common cause of plantar heel pain. PF is painful, can alter daily activities and presents as a sharp pain localized to the plantar foot and medial heel. The underlying etiology involves microtrauma to the plantar fascia, specifically at its insertion point on the calcaneus. Successful management of plantar fasciitis is t...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether skin-to-skin contact between mothers and their newborns will reduce the pain experienced by the infant during heel lance. DESIGN A prospective, randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. PARTICIPANTS A total of 30 newborn infants were studied. INTERVENTIONS Infants were assigned randomly to either being held by the...

The term plantar fasciitis is often used to designate a clinical condition in which the patient has pain in the plantar aspect of the heel, characteristically worse on arising in the morning and after periods of sitting (Furey, 1975). This is a common problem: 95 per cent of all heel pain is diagnosed as plantar fasciitis. Up to two million cases are reported in the US per year (Werner, 2002). ...

The patient is a 50-year old woman with past medical history of lupus presented to the clinic with left foot pain and was referred for electrodiagnostic evaluation of a tibial nerve entrapment. She initially had left heel pain which was diagnosed as plantar fasciitis 2 years ago by an outside clinician. She was treated with several injections of local steroid to the left heel prior to the curre...


 Introduction: Heel prick is one of the commonest procedures carried out in hospitalised newborns. Pain a subjective experience for which neonates, infants and children respond with behavioural reactions. Applying hot pack to skin surface causes proximal blood vessels dilate due raised temperature may decrease pain perception neonates. We intended study effect heel warming during neonates...

BACKGROUND Reconstruction of the heel represents a difficult challenge for surgeons, given the demand for thick, durable skin capable of withstanding both pressure and shear. The authors describe the use of a sensate medial plantar flap for heel reconstruction in three patients and document the long-term retention of sensation compared with the contralateral uninjured heel and corresponding don...