Plantar fasciitis: diagnosis and treatment
Abstract
As a result of a comprehensive analysis of current data we can conclude that current research areas include the study of diagnosing problems, the choice of optimal conservative surgical treatment, access to the plantar fascia, the optimal variant of post-operative rehabilitation, etc. All these provisions and gaps in scientific knowledge served as the basis for our study. At present the structural and functional disorders in various forms of plantar fasciitis, depending on the etiological factors (sports load, post-traumatic conditions, changes in the arch, systemic diseases, changes in the volume of adipose tissue of the heel region, age-related changes) are not studied yet.
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2. Atkins D., Crawford F., Edwards J., Lambert M. A systematic review of treatments for the painful heel. // Rheumatology. – 1999. – Vol. 38. – P. 968-973.
3. Batt M.E., Tanji J.L., Skattum N. Plantar fasciitis: a prospective randomized clinical trial of the tension night splint. // Clin J Sport Med. – 1996. – Vol. 6(3). – P. 158-162.
4. Bergmann J.N. History and mechanical control of heel spur pain. // Clin Podiatr Med Surg. – 1990. – Vol. 7. – P. 243-259.
5. Brody D. Running injuries. // The lower extremity and spine in sportsmedicine. – St. Louis: Mosby, 1986. – P. 1564-1566.
6. Buchbinder R. Clinical practice. Plantar fasciitis. // N Engl J Med. – 2004. – Vol. 350. – P. 2159-2166.
7. Cornwall M.W., McPoil T.G. Plantar fasciitis: etiology and treatment. // J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. – 1999. – Vol. 29. – P. 756-760.
8. Crawford F. Plantar heel pain. // Clin Evid. – 2001. – June. – P. 823-831
9. Crawford F., Atkins D., Young P., Edwards J. Steroid injection for heel pain: evidence of short-term effectiveness. A randomized controlled trial. // Oxf. J. Med. Health Rheum. – 1999. – Vol. 38 (10). – P. 974-977.
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2018-04-09
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СЕРЕДА, Андрей Петрович; МОЙСОВ, Адонис Александрович; СМЕТАНИН, Сергей Михайлович.
Plantar fasciitis: diagnosis and treatment.
Sibirskij Medicinskij Zurnal (Irkutsk) = Siberian Medical Journal (Irkutsk) 16+, [S.l.], v. 143, n. 4, p. 5-9, apr. 2018.
ISSN 1815-7572. Available at: <http://smj.ismu.baikal.ru/index.php/osn/article/view/123>. Date accessed: 01 jan. 2026.
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