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Posts for tag: stubborn foot pain

June 22, 2012
Category: people and blogs

A survey done by the American Podiatric Medical Association revealed that 64 % of people suffering from Heel Pain have never sought treatment from a podiatrist. The survey also revealed that nearly 40 percent of the American population suffers from heel pain!  What if your feet hurt? How long can you stand at work before your feet need a break? If you are avoiding the doctor because you are scared, you are being foolish! Let us help you!

Dry Needling 

The most common cause of heel pain is plantar fasciitis. This is a soft tissue injury that is commonly healed with conservative treatment, meaning no surgery! Though there are many reasons for heel pain, plantar fasciitis is by far the most common and is one of the most debilitating. It is often characterized as first step pain when stepping out of bed in the morning. Many patients describe the pain as an achy bruise on their heel times ten!

To understand the treatment of plantar fasciitis, it is essential to understand why and how this chronic pain occurs. The plantar fascia is a thick band of tissue that attaches to you calcaneus, the heel bone, and bones in your forefoot. The fascia supports the arch of your foot. When standing or walking, feet tend to pronate. This means the foot is tilting inward and elongating. This biomechanical positioning causes stretching and tearing of the plantar fascia which leads to inflammation. It is the inflammation process that causes the pain in the heel of the foot where the fascia attaches. The human body is masterpiece; thus, not everyone experiences plantar fascia damage. Our body will often adjust to compensate for abnormal stresses, but sometimes it just cannot take the stress we put it through. One may experience plantar fasciitis during pregnancy or after gaining weight. It is also associated with an increase in activity. So, if you are taking on more shifts at work or began a new work out plan, you may start to feel some foot discomfort.

Since the pain is due to inflammation, many treatment plans fight this problem first. Corticosteroid injections is an anti- inflammatory that will give many people great relief. There are side effects associated with steroid injections, thus the number of injections that one can receive is limited and not everyone is eligible for an injection. Another primary treatment is orthotics. Orthotics help control the pronation that leads to the stretching and tearing of the fascia. The orthotics will also help the fascia support the arch. For stubborn plantar fasciitis that does not respond to standard therapy there is a promising, fast, minimally invasive new treatment available to you in our clinic. It is called is .         .. "Percutaneous Ultrasound Guided Approach to Plantar Fasciitis" or "dry needling" , it was developed by researchers at the Department of Experimental Medicine at the University of Genoa, Italy. In a preliminary study that included 44 patients, researchers achieved a 95 percent success rate in completely resolving plantar fasciitis symptoms, relief that has so far lasted for more than ten months since the procedure.  
 
No foot pain is normal and no one should have to suffer from foot pain. It can be debilitating to your everyday life and many people cannot afford to slow down or stop for foot pain. The good news is that heel pain is often treatable without surgery. With the pain so excruciating and the treatment options so obtainable, it unacceptable that 64% of heel pain suffers are living with pain because they fail to seek help. 

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