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Heel Pain and Plantar Fasciitis: Evidence-Based Management

Posted on October 16, 2007

A recent article in Medscape Orthopaedics by Dr. Robert Glatter, MD sheds some light on evidence-based approach to plantar fasciitis and supports many of the already known etiology, diagnostic and treatment approaches identified by podiatrists in the podiatric literature. The article begins with the introduction that EP (emergency physicians) are increasingly exposed to patients with sport related and non-sport related plantar fasciitis. Unfortunatly, many physicians are unfamiliar with the etiology and treatment of PF. In the anatomic discussion of plantar fasciitis, Glatter describ...

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