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Medial Calcaneal Nerve Entrapment

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Heel pain is common in clinical practice. Medial calcaneal nerve entrapment in the superficial posterior foot can mimic more common conditions such as plantar fasciitis or pain referred from the back or proximal leg, which can present with similar pain but are treated differently. A patient with a previous diagnosis of “plantar fasciitis” who has failed all conservative management may have an entrapment neuropathy of the medial calcaneal nerve and may respond to nerve injections and neurolytic techniques.

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  1. Interventional Regenerative Orthopedic Medicine Institute, Seattle, WA, USA

    Michael N. Brown DC, MD

  2. Orthopaedic Associates of St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, FL, USA

    Beth S. Pearce DPM, BA(Biology)

  3. Singular – Centro de Controle da Dor, Campinas, Brazil

    Thais Khouri Vanetti MD, FIPP

  4. Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Thais Khouri Vanetti MD, FIPP

  5. Pain and Headache Center, Anchorage, AK, USA

    Andrea M. Trescot MD, ABIPP, FIPP

  6. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA

    Helen W. Karl MD

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Brown, M.N., Pearce, B.S., Vanetti, T.K., Trescot, A.M., Karl, H.W. (2016). Medial Calcaneal Nerve Entrapment. In: Trescot, A.M. (eds) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27482-9_77

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