Management of Calcaneal Spur (Vatakantak) – A Case StudyPranam Suresh KharcheHemant Pundalikrao Charde
The aim of our meta-analysis was to compare outcomes for two surgical treatments of calcaneal fractures, percutaneous reduction and fixation with Kirschner wires (PRFK) and open reduction internal fixation (ORIF), with the intent of evaluating the quality of evidence to inform practice. Search of...
Differential diagnoses that should be considered in cases of suspected Achilles tendinopathy include posterior ankle impingement; retrocalcaneal bursitis; symptomatic Haglund deformity; bone stress injury (BSI) of the distal tibia, fibula, or calcaneus; peroneal tendinopathy; and hindfoot arthrosis.11...
Heel pain (heel spur syndrome, plantar fasciitis, fissures, Sever’s disease, posterior impingement syndrome, Achilles tendonitis/tendonosis/peritendonitis/tendonopathy, retrocalcaneal bursitis) Ankle pain (ankle sprains, arthritis, chronic lateral ankle pain, osteochondral lesions, peroneal tendonitis, tib...
Plantar fasciitis and the calcaneal spur: Fact or fiction? Plantar fasciitis is a common diagnosis in patients presenting with heel pain. The presence of co-existing calcaneal spurs has often been reported but conf... KS Johal,SA Milner - 《Foot & Ankle Surgery Official Journal of the European...
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Calcaneal spurExerciseHigh intensity laser therapyPainTo evaluate the effect of high-intensity laser therapy (HILT) in patients with calcaneal spur. The patients were randomized to receive either HILT+exercise (n=21) (five times a week for a period of 3weeks) or placebo HILT+exercise (n=21)...
El Shazly O; El Beltagy A.Endoscopic plantar fascia release, calca- neal drilling and calcaneal spur removal for management of painful heel syndrome.Foot (Edinb).2010.121-125Endoscopic plantar fascia release, calcaneal drilling and calcaneal spur removal for management of painful heel syndrome[J] ....
The total number of patients receiving RT for heel spur pain was 450. Median age was 52 years (range 40-85 years). Two hundred and ninety-two (65%) of the patients were women and 158 (35%) were men. Radiologically calcaneal spurs were bilateral in 432 (96%) patients, whereas ...
Various modern treatment options are available for the management of calcaneal spur, but either they involve longer duration or are expensive. Hence, there is a need to opt treatment approaches that may provide satisfactory results with minimum adversities.Viddhakarma(~therapeutic needle-piercing) and...