This can be challenging and often mimic plantar fasciitis, and can actually be caused by plantar fasciitis. Baxters neuritis is an entrapment of a branch of the lateral plantar nerve that innervates the abductor digiti minimi muscle. It has been... (Continue reading)
It has never been recommended that an x-ray be taken for Sever’s Disease or Calcaneal apophysitis of the heel. The main reason is that it’s not detectable on x-ray. The appearance of the apophysis with or without Sever’s disease is... (Continue reading)
Heel pain caused by gout is not common or is very common depending on who you talk to. Any atypical or typical heel pain that does not respond to the standard treatments should consider gout in the many differential diagnosis’s... (Continue reading)