Most common apparent symptoms of plantar fasciitis are a strong burning (as if someone is holding a match to the underside of your foot) or sharp pain in the arch of the foot, usually near to the heel. You may also experience pain behind your toes, and sometimes across the underside of your foot.

 

Plantar fasciitis sufferers most regularly report pain after short periods of rest and could be probably the most painful whenever you awake in the morning nevertheless the pain may start to subside as your feet warm up. The most common and sure sign of plantar fasciitis is painful feet in the morning. If you catch yourself frequently saying to yourself in the morning, "My feet are killing me", there's significant possibility that you have problems with plantar fasciitis.

 

If you should be on your feet for an extended time frame than you are accustomed to, or walk or operate on different terrain than you normally would, you may entice a session of plantar fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis pain will flare up and be at its worst usually your day after these rare occurrences.

 

Below is a list of common conditions that sometimes get categorized as plantar fasciitis:

 

o The pain of bursitis is experienced quite far back on the heel.

 

o If during the night, you feel radiating, burning pain, numbness and tingling, the root cause is more likely to be something besides plantar fasciitis.

 

o Tarsal tunnel syndrome in particular causes diffuse symptoms throughout the bottom of the foot.

 

o You feel extreme pain in your foot the longer you are on your feet, then you may well have a stress fracture and you should seek immediate medical help.

 

o Your heel bone maybe bruised from a sudden blow or impact of your heel to a solid force and can very often feel just like plantar fasciitis.

 

o A condition called "fat pad syndrome" involves wasting away of the softness on the underside of the heel.

 

Similar apparent symptoms of plantar fasciitis could be also confused with these conditions:

 

o A tumor in the heel bone would cause a further, duller pain than plantar fasciitis, and of course other signs of failing health as things get worse.

 

o A disease called Paget's disease also causes foot pain - but is associated with bowed shin bones, a hunchback, and headaches.

 

o Calcaneal apophysitis (Sever's disease) occurs only in adolescents and is restricted to the back of the heel, where plantar fasciitis never goes.

 

Plantar fasciitis can be as in the same way stubborn as the rest of the repetitive strain injuries. Once it sets in, it's not uncommon to really have a recovery time as much as 2 years. The key to success in beating and treating any injury is to avoid poor medical advice and to attempt to work around a limb of the body that people depend and count on so much.