The heel pad in plantar heel pain
| Autor: | Somchai Prichasuk |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male musculoskeletal diseases medicine.medical_specialty Heel Pain Overweight Lower limb Body Mass Index Pressure Humans Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine In patient Aged Orthodontics business.industry Significant difference Middle Aged Surgery body regions medicine.anatomical_structure Compressibility Female medicine.symptom business Body mass index Plantar heel pain |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume. :140-142 |
| ISSN: | 2044-5377 0301-620X |
| DOI: | 10.1302/0301-620x.76b1.8300659 |
| Popis: | A study of heel-pad thickness and compressibility using lateral radiographs, loaded and unloaded by body-weight, was carried out on 70 patients with plantar heel pain and 200 normal subjects. The heel-pad thickness and the compressibility index (resistance to compression) were greater in the patients than in normal subjects and significantly increased with age. In normal subjects, the thickness was greater in males than in females, but there was no significant difference in the compressibility. Increased weight led to an increase in heel-pad thickness and compressibility index. The body mass index was greater in patients with plantar heel pain than in normal subjects and 40% of the patients were considered to be overweight. Increase in the compressibility index indicates loss of elasticity and an increased tendency to develop plantar heel pain. |
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