While plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of pain under a heel a less common cause on a nerve entrapment, commonly called Baxters Neuritis or Baxters Nerve Entrapment. The symptoms of this is similar to plantar fasciitis and a careful assessment is needed to tell them apart.

The treatment of this entrapment is usually conservative. A surgical treatment is usually quite successful if the conservative treatment fails.

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