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Foot Pain

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  1. See Also
    1. Hindfoot Pain
    2. Leg Pain
  2. Causes: Chronic Foot Pain
    1. Common causes
      1. Foot Arthritis
      2. Morton's Neuroma
      3. Plantar Fasciitis
      4. Stress Fracture
        1. Metatarsal Stress Fracture
        2. Calcaneus Stress Fracture
        3. Tarsal Navicular Stress Fracture
        4. Lisfranc Fracture Dislocation
    2. Uncommon causes
      1. Accessory Bone Pain
      2. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
      3. Tarsal Tunnel
    3. Rare causes
      1. Avascular Necrosis of the Metatarsal Head (Freiberg's Disease)
      2. Tarsal Coalition
  3. Imaging
    1. XRay Indications (AP, Lateral and Oblique)
      1. First-Line in nearly all cases of foot pain
    2. MRI Indications (when XRay is not diagnostic)
      1. Morton's Neuroma (minimum of 5 mm lesion and corresponding clinical findings)
      2. Accessory Bone Pain
      3. Plantar Fasciitis
      4. Stress Fracture
      5. Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
    3. CT Indications (when XRay is not diagnostic)
      1. Stress Fracture (follow-up to demonstrate healing)
      2. Tarsal Coalition
    4. Ultrasound (when XRay is not diagnostic, operator dependent)
      1. Morton's Neuroma
      2. Plantar Fasciitis
      3. Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
    5. Bone scan Indications (when XRay is not diagnostic)
      1. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
  4. References
    1. Ahn (2007) Am Fam Physician 76(7):975

Foot pain (C0016512)

ConceptsSign or Symptom (T184)
EnglishFoot pain, PAIN FOOT, Podalgia
Spanishdolor de pies, podalgia
Parent ConceptsPain (C0030193), Pain in lower limb (C0023222), Finding of foot region (C0576221), Duplicate concept (C1274013)
SourcesCOSTAR, CST, DXP, NCI, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)



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