Your plantar fascia is best pictured as a thick band running from your heel to the base of your toes, holding the arch of your foot the way a bowstring holds a bow. It isn’t a passive strap. It’s a working structure that tensions and releases with every step, and it’s doing a specific mechanical job — one that depends on several other things happening correctly further up the chain.
Roughly nine in ten cases of plantar fasciitis settle with conservative treatment. That’s genuinely good news, and it’s the figure most people are quoted early on. It’s less comforting when you’re in the other tenth. Heel pain persisting beyond six months despite treatment has its own name in the literature — chronic recalcitrant plantar fasciitis — and it needs a different approach from a fresh case. Doing more of what hasn’t worked is rarely the answer.
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Plantar fasciitis is a common cause of heel and arch pain, especially in older walkers and people who spend long hours on their feet.
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