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Article: Study: Stretching exercises can relieve chronic heel pain symptoms.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- July 28, 2003
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2003 JUL 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exercises that specifically stretch the plantar fascia can relieve heel pain caused by an inflammation of the sole (plantar surface) of the foot following an injury of the tough, ligament-like sheet of tissue (fascia) that extends from the heel bone to the base of the toes.
These findings are the result of an investigation performed by Benedict F. DiGiovanni, MD; Deborah A. Nawoczenski, PhD, PT; Marc E. Lintal, MSPT; Elizabeth A. Moore, MSPT; Joseph C. Murray, MSPT; Gregory E. Wilding, PhD; and Judith F. Baumhauer, MD, of the department of orthopedics, University of Rochester, and the department of physical therapy, ...