Treatment can help ease stubborn heel pain: study

Some 95 percent of patients who got the treatment had no symptoms after three weeks, a quick recovery for a painful condition that can take months or longer to heal, they told a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.

The new approach involves using an ultrasound-guided needle to make tiny punctures in the fascia, causing a bit of bleeding to help promote healing. “Blood contains platelets and these platelets contain some factors that help tissues to heal naturally,” said Dr. Luca Sconfienza of the University of Genoa in Italy in a telephone interview. “After that, we inject some steroids around the fascia to provide a short-term treatment for the inflammation,” he said, adding, “The whole treatment takes about 15 minutes.”

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