AIM To investigate whether it would be safe to extend the currently recommended area of sampling to the whole heel in neonates. METHODS Eighty newborn infants were studied, weight range 0.56 to 4.34 kg, gestation 24 to 42 weeks. Ultrasound scanning was used to measure the shortest distance between the skin and the perichondrium of the calcaneum. RESULTS The shortest depth of perichondrium w...

Haglund's syndrome, which is an inflammation of the bursa and a bony enlargement on the back of the heel that most often leads to painful bursitis, is a rare cause of retrocalcaneal pain. The clinical diagnosis is often confusing as the clinical picture may mimic other causes of hindfoot pain such as isolated retrocalcaneal bursitis or hindfoot involvement from more systemic disorders such as s...

All fifteen subjects demonstrated no separation (bone-on-bone) of their medial compartment, at heel-strike, without the assistance of an offloading device. While using a lateral HWI, medial compartment separation could only be detected in 5/15 subjects (33%), but 12/15 subjects (80%) felt pain relief of their osteoarthritic knee at heel-strike. While wearing an osteoarthritic offloading knee br...

Objective: Plantar fasciitis is one of the primary causes heel pain. Several treatment methods are substantial. This study was aimed to evaluate clinical results corticosteroids and prolotherapy injection therapies.Methods: The gender, age, time symptoms, BMI (body mass index) were specified in 60 patients with symptomatic chronic plantar disorder between 2019 2020. randomly divided into two gr...

We report a case of 29-year-old female who presented with right heel pain that worsened over a period of two years. The onset of pain was followed by swelling at the medial aspect of right ankle. She was initially treated for plantar fasciitis with multiple steroid injections over the heel. Subsequent MRI revealed a well-defined heterogeneous lesion in continuity with the medial plantar nerve. ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the efficacy for treatments of pain on the plantar aspect of the heel. METHODS Systematic review of the published and unpublished literature. Electronic search of Medline, BIDS and the Cochrane database of clinical trials. An assessment of the quality of the reporting was made of studies included in the review. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE patients' pain scores. STUDY SELEC...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether high dose paracetamol (40 mg/kg orally) relieves pain in premature infants. METHODS This study was a randomized controlled trial analyzing the effect of high dose oral paracetamol on pain response due to heel prick in 72 premature infants treated in the neonatal intensive care unit of Alzahra University Hospital, Isfahan, Iran during the period of April 2007 to A...

OBJECTIVE To describe the use of heel blood sampling and non-pharmacological analgesia in a large representative sample of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in eight European countries, and compare their self-reported practices with evidence-based recommendations. METHODS Information on use of heel blood sampling and associated procedures (oral sweet solutions, non-nutritive sucking, swad...

This review presents current understanding of mechanisms action extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) and provides a brief overview its history development. The central purpose this is to synthesize research findings investigating the effectiveness ESWT for seven common tendinopathies (plantar heel pain, rotator cuff, lateral elbow, Achilles, gluteal, hamstring patellar tendinopathy) provide ...

OBJECTIVE Plantar fasciitis is a prevalent problem, with limited consensus among clinicians regarding the most effective treatment. The purpose of this literature review is to provide a systematic approach to the treatment of plantar fasciitis based on the windlass mechanism model. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, SPORT Discus, and CINAHL from 1966 to 2003 using the key words plantar fasciit...