Plantar fasciitis

[Admin]

The most common cause of heel pain is plantar fasciitis. One of the key diagnostics signs of this problem is pain in the first few steps after getting up from rest, especially getting out of bed in the morning.

On are occasions gout can affect the same area and casue pain in the same area (see Heel pain and gout (http://www.goutonline.net/showthread.php?t=1835))

For more on plantar fasciitis see:
Plantar fasciitis (http://www.podiatry-arena.com/podiatry-forum/tags/index.php?tag=/plantar-fasciitis/)
Plantar fasciitis discussions (http://www.podiatry-arena.com/podiatry-forum/showthread.php?t=1380)
Ask a question on the Foot Health Forum about plantar fasciitis (http://www.foot-health-forum.com/forum/tags.php?tag=plantar+fasciitis)
Plantar fasciitis (http://www.foot-health-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23451)

[fit foot]

Yes, I've suffered with this in the past and can be really debilitating. Stretched are the way forward, well it helped me.