When you first get out of bed in the morning or get up from rest after a while and there is pain under the heel that can be severe for the first few steps before easing off is a symptom known as poststatic dyskinesia. The word...
Heel fat pad atrophy occurs when the fat pad that is normally under the heel bone atrophies or wastes away. This naturally happens as we get older, but does occur earlier in some people and some people have a naturally reduced amount of fat there...
This is not an easy question to answer. For every person that says Crocs caused their plantar fasciitis, there is another who is adamant that Crocs cured their plantar fasciitis. There is no published scientific research on the issue, so there is...
Post-static dyskineisa is a bit of a mouthful, but it is that worse pain under the heel when you get up from rest, especially in the morning. Post-static refers to the after resting and the dyskinesia refers to the pain. It is a characteristic...
Post-static dyskineisa is the technical term for that worse pain under the heel when you get up from rest, especially getting out of bed in the morning. ‘Post-static’ refers to the after resting and the ‘dyskinesia’ refers to...
Calcaneal apophysitis (Severs disease) is a common problem in growing children with the growth plate at the back of the heel bone. The classic symptoms are pain on activity and pain on squeezing the sides of the heel bone. The problem is self...
Calcaneal apophysitis is the technical name for what is more commonly known as Sever’s disease. It is a disorder of the growth plate (apophysis) at the back of the heel bone (calcaneus). This growth plate merges with the rest of the heel bone...
This is a hard question to answer, as there is probably no right answer. There is no one best running shoe for anything. There is probably a best running shoe for each individual and that particular shoe will be different for each runner. The...