BACKGROUND: @entity3444 is a common, disabling condition, and the prognosis of conservative treatment is difficult to predict. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether initial clinical findings could help predict @entity1 response to conservative treatment that primarily consisted of supportive footwear and stretching. SETTING: @entity1 were recruited and seen at 2 outpatient podiatric clinics in the Chicago, Illinois, metropolitan area. @entity1 : Seventy-seven @entity1 with @entity3444 were recruited. @entity1 were excluded if they had a heel injection in the previous 6 months or were currently using custom foot orthoses at the time of screening. Sixty-nine @entity1 completed the final follow-up visit 3 months after receiving the footwear intervention. METHODS: Treatment failure was considered a <50% reduction in heel @entity158 at 3 month follow-up. Logistic regression models evaluated the possible association between more than 30 clinical and physical examination findings prospectively assessed at enrollment, and treatment response. RESULTS: Inability to dorsiflex the ankle past -5   (odds ratio [OR] 3.9, P = .024), nonsevere ( <=7 on ordinal scale) first- @entity158 (OR 3.8, P = .021), and heel valgus in relaxed stance (OR 4.0, P = .014) each predicted @entity177 in multivariable analysis (receiver operating characteristic area under the curve = .769). Limited ankle dorsiflexion also correlated with greater heel @entity158 severity at initial presentation (r = - 0.312, P = .006). CONCLUSIONS: @entity1 with severe ankle equinus were nearly 4 times more likely to experience a favorable response to treatment centered on home Achilles tendon stretching and supportive therapy. Thus, earlier use of more advanced therapies may be most appropriate in those presenting without severe ankle equinus or without severe first @entity158 . The findings from our study may not be clinically intuitive because @entity1 with less severe equinus and less severe @entity158 at presentation did worse with conservative care.

Physical Examination Variables Predict Response to Conservative Treatment of XXXX : Secondary Analysis of a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Footwear Study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'patient', 'PATIENTS'] @entity177 :: ('MESH:D051437', 'Disease') :: ['treatment failure'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['pain', 'step pain'] @entity3444 :: ('MESH:D036981', 'Disease') :: ['Plantar fasciitis', 'nonchronic plantar fasciitis']
@entity3444 :: (MESH:D036981,Disease) :: ['Nonchronic Plantar Fasciitis']
