Tight calf muscles can increase your risk of developing this condition. Pain typically occurs in the back of your heel and ...

Heel pain causes a throbbing, aching, burning, or stabbing sensation in the back or bottom of the foot. This type of pain is a common complaint for people of all ages and activity levels. In fact, ...

Heel pain syndrome is a chronic degenerative/reparative process secondary to stress overload. Patients describe a gradual increase in plantar heel pain over weeks to ...

Despite its use for daily activities like walking, standing, and running, we tend to overlook our heels until pain strikes. Heel pain, whether from overuse, improper footwear, or underlying ...

Objective To develop a best practice guide for managing people with plantar heel pain (PHP). Methods Mixed-methods design including systematic review, expert interviews and patient survey. Data ...

You wake up, swing your legs out of bed, and as soon as your feet softly land on the floor, a sharp pain jolts your heel. Later, after a long day on your feet, you finally get home. As you take ...