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Plantar Fasciitis

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Plantar fasciitis is one of the more common injuries in the general population and can be debilitating for an ­athlete. In a retrospective study of 2002 running injuries, it was a found that 157 of the injuries were plantar fasciitis (7.8%) and another study found that there are more than one million patient visits per year to medical pro­fessionals.1,2 The plantar fascia is the main supporting s­tructure of the foot and arch; it is vulnerable to injury.

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    Amol Saxena D.P.M.

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Fullem, B.W., Saxena, A. (2012). Plantar Fasciitis. In: Saxena, A. (eds) International Advances in Foot and Ankle Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-609-2_25

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