Plantar heel pain part 3 - Additional treatment with Henrik Riel

Sticking to a rehab program is a challenge for patients, and Plantar heel pain (PHP) patients are no exception. Rehab can be a time consuming process, and take a while. How can you help your patients to stick with it, so they fully recover?

There are a number of treatment options available for PHP, like isometric exercises, heavy slow resistance, strengthening, stretching, corticosteroid injection, extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT), manual therapy and more. Which treatments are best for your patients? How does the latest research help you?

In PHP part 3 - Additional treatment with Henrik Riel, you will discover:

• Isometric exercises - can you use these to reduce pain in PHP patients?
• Which type of exercise are most comfortable to perform?
• What challenges will you face helping patients adhere to an exercise program?
• How can you encourage patients to actually perform their exercises?
• Is manual therapy effective?
• What are the short and long term effects of corticosteroid injection?
• Is there a risk of plantar fascia rupture with corticosteroid injection?
• What do PF corticosteroid injections and the Loch Ness monster have in common?
• Is it useful to combine corticosteroid injection with heavy slow resistance training?
• What upcoming research is likely to help you treat PHP?
• How do Extracorporeal shockwave (ESWT), stretching, corticosteroid injection compare to a placebo?
• Is ESWT for PHP more effective when the patient is anaesthetised or awake?
• What are your next steps if conservative management is unsuccessful?
• How effective is surgery for PHP?
• Key points and summary

In Part 1 you discovered how to assess & diagnose PHP.

In Part 2, you explored exercise options and progressions you can use with your PHP patients.

Part 3 (this part) will help you compare different types of exercises you can use, and explore the latest evidence on additional treatment options such as extracorporeal shockwave therapy (EWST), manual therapy, surgery, and how the Loch Ness monster and corticosteroid injections have a lot in common.