What Is Plantar Fasciitis?
Most Common Cause of Heel Pain
Painful Signs
Who Gets It?
See a Doctor
Slow Down
Cool Down Your Pain
Medicine
Time to Buy Shoes
Stretch Your Feet and Legs
Support Your Feet
Steroids
'Shocking' Treatment
Surgery
Prevent Pain
A Special Rx for Runners
SOURCES:
Mayo Clinic: “Plantar fasciitis,” “Exercises to help prevent plantar fasciitis.”
American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society: “Plantar Fasciitis,” Plantar Fascia Infection.”
UptToDate: “Patient Education: Heel Pain (caused by plantar fasciitis) Beyond the Basics.”
Kids Health/Nemours Foundation: “Plantar Fasciitis.”
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons/OrthoInfo: “Plantar Fasciitis and Bone Spurs.”
American Family Physician: “Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis.”
NHS Choices: “Treating heel pain,” "NSAIDs.”
Sports Medicine Institute International: “Plantar Fascia Pain.”
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy: “Randomized Controlled Trial of Calcaneal Taping, Sham Taping and Plantar Fascia Stretching for the Short-Term Management of Plantar Heel Pain.”