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Sports Injuries - Foot Injuries - Rear and Heel
| Pain in the rear foot and heel | ||
| Term | Also Known As | Description |
| plantar fasciitis | heel spur | Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation of connective tissue from the heel to the front of the foot on the bottom. |
| fat pad contusion | bruised heel | A fat pad contusion occurs when the fat pad covering the heel gets pushed to the side, and blood vessels are damaged or broken without skin braking and blood mixes into adjacent tissue. |
| calcaneal stress fracture | A calcaneal stress fracture is a partial or complete crack or break from a repetitive force on the heel bone. | |
| medial calcaneal nerve entrapment | Medial calcaneal nerve entrapment is painful or injurious pressure on the nerve that passes along the middle of the foot's calcaneous bone. | |
| Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome | TTS | Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome occurs when the posterior tibial nerve in the tunnel formed between foot bones and overlying fibrous tissue in the ankle becomes compressed and irritated. |
| retrocalcaneal bursitis | Achilles bursitis / bursitis under the calcaneus bone | Retrocalcaneal bursitis occurs when there is swelling of the protective sac at the back of the heel bone. |
