الفهرس 
Anatomical and biomechanical background of footOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain, despite of its frequency, its treatment remains frustrating by patient’s failure to respond to the many conservative treatment available. The purpose of this study was to identify whether Low – Dye taping has a role in the treatment of plantar fasciitis through improving pain and function of the foot and changing foot pressure distribution during single and bilateral stance. Forty-five subjects participated in the study, fifteen normal subjects and 30 patients suffering from unilateral plantar fasciitis referred from an orthopedic surgeon (males and females). The subjects divided randomly into three groups Groups (A): 15 patients were treated by traditional physical therapy program in form of ultrasound, and stretching exercise for six sessions day after day for 2 weeks. Group (B): 15 patients were treated by the same physical therapy program plus Low-Dye taping technique. Group (C): 15 normal subjects (matching in age and BMI.) as control group, patients pain was assessed by using visual analog scale, foot functional disability evaluated by functional disability questionnaire, assessment of foot pressure distribution for patients before and after the treatment during single and bilateral stance using foot scan plate system foot pressure was evaluated for normal subjects as a referring parameters. The results showed that traditional physical therapy has significant improvement on pain and functional disability of foot and insignificant effect on foot pressure distribution while its combination with Low-Dye taping has better results on pain and functional disability of foot with significant effect on foot pressure distribution compared with normal subjects.