OBJECTIVES Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) and corticosteroid injection (CSI) are treatment options for plantar fasciitis. Their clinical outcome comparison remains a debate. Also, the thickness changes of the plantar fascia on objective evaluation under the medium energy ESWT and CSI therapy are elusive. METHODS A total of 97 patients with chronic plantar fasciitis were enrolled in t...

Fourth metatarsal base fractures are an uncommon foot injury. These fractures can take extended periods of time to heal that is similar to a Jones fracture. The authors report on four metatarsal fractures, three of which resulted in non-unions in middle-aged women with osteoporosis. When conservative treatment failed, two cases were treated with open reduction and internal fixation while the ot...

Methods: Forty eight patients with chronic symptoms of Achilles tendinopathy for greater than three months, as diagnosed by clinical exam, voluntarily agreed to participate in the experimental study. Each patient was randomly assigned, by computer statistical system, to one of two treatment groups and underwent four treatment sessions once a week for four weeks. At the time of treatment each pa...