RSNA: Dry-Needling Plus Steroid Effective for Plantar Fasciitis

www.medpagetoday.com CHICAGO, Dec. 2 — For patients with plantar fasciitis, a notoriously difficult condition to treat, an Italian team has come up with a novel approach that uses dry-needling combined with a steroid injection, researchers said here. Dry needling creates a small amount of local bleeding that helps to heal the fascia, and the accompanying steroid injected into the perifascial soft tissue, rather than directly into the fascia, reduces inflammation, Luca M. Sconfienza, MD, of the University of Genoa, said at the Radiological Society of North America meeting.

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