How do we know if you have plantar fasciitis?

Dr. Andy

Do you have pain along the bottom of your foot? Are you worried it could be plantar fasciitis? An accurate diagnosis is the first step in treating foot pain in our Burlington chiropractic clinic. So let’s take a deep dive into how we evaluate our patients for plantar fasciitis.

Plantar Fasciitis: How we diagnose it! Video

Let’s take a look at our foot pain evaluation

Key Takeaways:

  • An accurate diagnosis starts with good conversation on your pain’s history. How did it start? When does it bother you?
  • The most common symptom is sharp stabbing pain along the bottom of the foot, and it’s at its worst first thing in the morning
  • The gastroc muscle (calf muscle) is very often tight and spasming in the leg with the plantar fasciitis
  • The chiropractor palpating the ankle joint may also find restrictions in its normal range of motion
  • Depending on the evaluation, we will know best how to treat it using chiropractic care, exercise, and/or dry needling

Are you struggling with Plantar Fasciitis?

Plantar fasciitis can sometimes heal on its own, but it’s usually an excruciating couple of weeks or months. Chiropractic care can help reduce the pain and speed up the healing process. Call our Burlington office at 336-270-3050 or use the link below to schedule and find out what chiropractic care can do for you.

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Plantar Fasciitis: How we diagnosis it! Video Transcript

DISCLAIMER: This is a direct transcript of the video audio and may not be grammatically correct.

Assessing for plantar fasciitis will be key in how we create a treatment plan. It will start with taking a history which means asking questions about the pain you are feeling. This is actually the most important part of the assessment for plantar fasciitis and any condition. This helps get us to a good diagnosis so that we can recommend what to do for plantar fasciitis if our history points to that diagnosis.

From the history, if we find these two hallmark indicators which are where the pain is located and when is the pain the most severe. 

Often times when the pain for plantar fasciitis is located on the bottom of the foot, around where the heel of the foot is. This pain is often described as a very sharp pain, especially when walking or running. For most plantar fasciitis cases the pain will be the most sharp and painful in the morning right when you get out of bed. This is because when we sleep at night or we are off our feet for hours, the plantar fascia shortens into a resting position. When you go to try to walk in the morning you are then asking the fasca to suddenly lengthen and that will create pain in a plantar fasciitis case.

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