- Oral anti-inflammatory medicine or steroid injections.
- Physical therapy
- Functional orthotics (shoe inserts that maintain proper biomechanics)
Anti-inflammatory medication and orthotics are key to long-term successful treatment.
If conservative treatment does not provide relief from heel pain, surgery may be necessary.
- The most common procedure is an endoscopic plantar fascia release, which reduces the pulling tension of the structures around the heel.
- Unless very large and projecting downward, the spur usually does not need to be removed, since the tension on the plantar fascia, not the spur, causes the symptoms.
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1 comment:
Your diagnostic ultrasound pictures are great. Diagnostic ultrasound is a wonderful tool to visualize soft tissue structures at a fraction of the cost of a MRI. I also use it in my office if a patient cannot have an x-ray (because she is pregnant for example)
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