Now my specialty has to do with a pain in your butt, but a lot of patients may not have that.

They actually have something where it's a pain in their foot or their heel.

And we're not talking about the Achilles tendon, we did that a few weeks ago. But what if I told you

there is a condition that it does cause a pain in the foot that's responsible for

almost one million patient visits to the doctor every single year in the United States. That's right. Today we're

going to be talking about plantarophasitis and it's actually one of the most

common causes of foot pain and according to the studies about two-thirds of patients will have seen their doctor

in at least the last one year for this specific issue.

In fact, up to 10% of the population will have healed pain at any time, and 80% of it is due to plantar fashiatis.

So cool your heels.

I'm Dr. Nacat son Paul, your friendly neighborhood internist and gastrointestinalologist and

we're going to be talking about plantar fashitis.

So cue that beat, my man. Now before we begin let's go back to anatomy class. We all remember the

planter of fiacia. It's this very thick central portion of connective tissue that supports the arch on the

bottom side of the foot. The fascia itself extends between the medial process of the calcanei

and up to the proximal phalanges, and it's made primarily of

longitude in the oriented collagen fibers.

I want you to think of it as like a thick band of tissue, kind of like the things you use

for when you try to stretch out in the gym

but it's under the bottom of your foot. And you might be wondering what does this

thing even do? Is it like the appendix where we're not going to know for a long period of

time? Well right now we know that it's important in establishing

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