When your 1st few steps out of bed in the morning cause acute pain in the heel of your foot, you may have plantar faciitis. It's an overuse injury affecting the sole or flexor surface (plantar) of the foot. A diagnosis of plantar faciitis means you have inflamed the tough, fibrous band of tissue (plantar fascia) a thin layer of tough tissue supporting the arch of the foot.
Repeated microscopic tears of the plantar fascia cause pain. Sometimes plantar facitis is called "heel spurs", but this is not always accurate, since bony growths on the heel may or may not be a factor.
You're more likely to get plantar faciitis if you're a woman, if you're overweight, or if you have a job that requires a lot of walking or standing on hard surfaces. You're also at risk for plantar faciitis, if you walk or run for exercise, especially if you have tight calf muscles that limit how far you can flex your ankles. Most people with very flat feet or very high arches are also more prone to plantar faciitis.
There are a number of possible causes for plantar faciitis and they often work in combination.
If you don't treat plantar faciitis, it may become a chronic condition. You may not be able to keep up your level of activity and you may also develop symptoms of foot, knee, hip and back problems because of the way plantar faciitis changes the way you walk...
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