Diagnosaurus
Heel pain
DDx
- Plantar fasciitis
- Enthesopathy due to seronegative spondyloarthropathy (eg, ankylosing spondylitis)
- Achilles tendinitis
- Pre-achilles bursitis
- Metatarsal stress fracture
- Heel pad syndrome (traumatic irritation of fat tisses)
- Retrocalcaneal bursitis
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Large bony heel spur
- Calcaneal stress fracture (runners)
- Genital herpes simplex (referred pain from sacral ganglion)
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Heel Pain." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114031/all/Heel_pain.
Zeiger RFR. Heel pain. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114031/all/Heel_pain. Accessed October 31, 2025.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Heel pain. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114031/all/Heel_pain
Zeiger RFR. Heel Pain [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2025 October 31]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114031/all/Heel_pain.
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