Management for the Plantar Fasciopathy

Yinghui Jia

2025

Abstract

Plantar fasciopathy (PF) is a degenerative condition with the preference of pain or discomfort at the base of the foot. This article summarizes the advances of treatments and condenses the cause, diagnosis and prevention of PF, aiming to provide a basis in managing PF. Causes of PF includes insufficient ankle dorsiflexion, increasing age, thickening in plantar fascia, high body mass index (BMI) and long-term weight loading or overexercise. Diagnosis is history and physical examination of a history of pain or discomfort in the heel that had been particularly severe during the first morning steps after rising, with tingling on palpation of the heel. And the performance of thickening of plantar fascia on Ultrasound can be used to confirm. Treatments include physical therapy (PT), extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT), platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and acupuncture. Every treatment has different characteristics and the efficacy varies from person to person.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jia Y. (2025). Management for the Plantar Fasciopathy. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Food Science - Volume 1: BEFS; ISBN 978-989-758-789-4, SciTePress, pages 380-384. DOI: 10.5220/0014493700004933

in Bibtex Style

@conference{befs25,
author={Yinghui Jia},
title={Management for the Plantar Fasciopathy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Food Science - Volume 1: BEFS},
year={2025},
pages={380-384},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014493700004933},
isbn={978-989-758-789-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Food Science - Volume 1: BEFS
TI - Management for the Plantar Fasciopathy
SN - 978-989-758-789-4
AU - Jia Y.
PY - 2025
SP - 380
EP - 384
DO - 10.5220/0014493700004933
PB - SciTePress