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Insertional Plantar Fasciitis

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Plantar Fasciitis (PF) is one of the most common causes of heel pain in adults (Abbassian et al. 2012). The population of patients suffering from PF is reported between 3 and 7% (Stephens and Walker 1997; Thomas et al. 2010), and 8% of PF patients are runners (Lysholm and Wiklander 1987; Taunton et al. 2002). The peak incidence of PF occurs between 40 and 60 years old (Furey 1975). Almost PF can be recovered without surgical intervention (Buchbinder 2004; Singh et al. 1997), PF threatens health-related quality of life (Buchbinder 2004), and it was reported that the economic burden to the US healthcare system in 2007 alone was estimated at between $192 and $376 million (Tong and Furia 2010).

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic, Clinique du Sport, Mérignac, France

    O. Haruki M.D. & S. Guillo M.D.

  2. Department of Orthopaedic, Ambroise Paré University Hospital, West Paris University, Boulogne Billancourt, France

    T. Bauer M.D., Ph.D.

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  1. Koelliker Hospital, Centre of Sports Traumatology, Torino, Italy

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    Pieter d'Hooghe

  3. Department of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado, USA

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Haruki, O., Guillo, S., Bauer, T. (2017). Insertional Plantar Fasciitis. In: Canata, G., d'Hooghe, P., Hunt, K. (eds) Muscle and Tendon Injuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54184-5_36

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