title: Plantar fasciitis.
abstract: Thirty patients presenting with the heel pain syndrome, commonly referred to as "plantar fasciitis", were studied prospectively over a two year period. The pain was associated with a calcaneal spur in 21 patients (70%). In a control series of 25 patients without heel symptoms, calcaneal spurs were present in only 4 out of 50 heels (8%). This difference is highly significant (p 0.001). Seven patients (22%) in the plantar fasciitis group complained of ipsilateral sciatica.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002111:Calcaneus / Q000002:abnormalities; D002648:Child; D005208:Fasciitis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006365:Heel; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged