As per a study that was presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the combination of an ultrasound-guided technique with a steroid injection can prove to be effective by as much as 95 percent to offer relief to patients suffering from plantar fasciitis.

This technique is expected to stand up as an effective and one-time outpatient procedure as per study’s lead author, Luca M. Sconfienza, M.D., from Italy’s University of Genoa.

Plantar fasciitis, which is the most common cause of heel pain, is an inflammation of the plantar fascia (connective tissue) that affects one million people annually in the U.S. alone.

From News-Medical.Net:

For this study, Dr. Sconfienza and colleagues used a new ultrasound-guided technique, along with steroid injection, on 44 patients with plantar fasciitis that was unresponsive to conservative treatments.

After injection of a small amount of anesthesia, the anesthetic needle is used to repeatedly puncture the site where the patient feels the pain. This technique is known as dry-needling. Dry-needling creates a small amount of local bleeding that helps to heal the fasciitis. Lastly, a steroid is injected around the fascia to eliminate the inflammation and pain. The technique is performed with ultrasound guidance to improve accuracy and to avoid injecting the steroids directly into the plantar fascia, which could result in rupture.

After the 15-minute procedure, symptoms disappeared for 42 of the study’s 44 patients (95 percent) within three weeks.

Dr. Sconfienza said that when pain associated with plantar fasciitis becomes annoying then dry-needling with steroid injection proves to be a viable option.

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