Is Gastrocnemius Recession Surgery best surgical treatment for Planter Fasciitis foot?
Heel discomfort that manifests in an outpatient situation is most frequently due to plantar fasciitis. It is deleterious, because it causes foot pain, ambulation problems, exercise restrictions, and the inability to support one's weight. Isolated gastrocnemius tightness has been found to be positively associated with the progression of plantar fasciitis and other foot-related pathological conditions. Around 10% of the patients with plantar fasciitis were reported to show no response to the conservative treatments like - rest, muscle-strengthening protocols, non-steroidal antiinflammatory stimulants, massage, heel pads, steroid, and platelet-rich plasma injections.
A systematic and meta-static review was conducted by Abhijit Bandyopadhyay et al to analyze the correlation between isolated gastrocnemius contracture and plantar fasciitis and the effectiveness of gastrocnemius recession surgery in the treatment of plantar fasciitis.
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed to conduct this meta-analysis. A literature search was carried out on the following databases, including Google Scholar, PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane databases with the appropriate medical subject headings (MeSH) to identify the eligible articles.
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