Fasciitis, Plantar

"Fasciitis, Plantar" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Inflammation of the plantar fascia (aponeurosis) on the bottom of the foot causing heel pain. The etiology of plantar fasciitis remains controversial but is likely to involve a biomechanical imbalance. Though often presenting along with HEEL SPUR, they do not appear to be causally related.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fasciitis, Plantar" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fasciitis, Plantar" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 3 publications over 2 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2008
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts expand description
_
Top Journals expand description