Plantar fasciitis is one of the more common injuries in the general population and can be debilitating for an -athlete. In a retrospective study of 2002 running injuries, it was a found that 157 of the injuries were plantar fasciitis (7.8%) and another study found that there are more than one million patient visits per year to medical pro-fessionals.1,2 The plantar fascia is the main supporting s-tructure of the foot and arch; it is vulnerable to injury.
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Fullem, B. W., & Saxena, A. (2013). Plantar fasciitis. In Sports Medicine and Arthroscopic Surgery of the Foot and Ankle (Vol. 9781447141068, pp. 83–93). Springer-Verlag London Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4106-8_7
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