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Student athletes - Avoiding heel pain

Over the past few weeks heel pain has sidelined or hobbled   Albert Pujol’s of the Los Angeles Angels, Mike Napoli of the Boston Red Sox’s and Jarius Byrd of the Buffalo Bills.   If you are student athlete going back to high school or university, heel pain is something you want to avoid.   Heel pain will change the way you perform your sport.    If you are developing heel pain, you will start to notice pain when you take your first step in the morning.   As time goes on, you will dread your first step out of bed because it is going to be painful. With practice you will perfect a method to keep as much weight off of your painful heel.   You will realize the pain will get a little better as the day goes on but you also know that when you get home and sit down but have to get up again it’s going to be painful!   One of the main reasons heel pain occurs is because the plantar fascia pulls away from its attachment under the heel bone.  ...