Abstract

CORRELATION OF MECHANICAL HEEL PAIN WITH BODY MASS INDEX

Dr. Suzan Ihsan Shakir* and Dr. Nuha Abdul Whab Muhammed Ali

ABSTRACT

Objective: To find the relationship between mechanical heel pain and BMI. Patients and methods: The study was carried out on 100 (74 females and 26 males) patients with mechanical heel pain and on 55 (31 females, 24 males) normal subjects (without heel pain). The patients with history or any evidence of inflammatory joint disease or local trauma and infection have been excluded from the study. All patients and control group have been recorded for height and weight to calculate BMI and they have been send for X-ray of both heels to detect inferior and posterior calcaneal spur. Results: The study showed that the BMI was greater in patients with heel pain (mean BMI = 30.6 kg/m2) than controls (mean BMI = 27.2 kg/m2). Seventy –one patients with heel pain had highest BMI (32.1 kg/m2) and within obese category. High percentage of patients were women within highest BMI. Seventy - nine percent of whole patients had calcaneal spur on X -ray films of heel. Inferior calcaneal spurs were more than combined and posterior one. Fourteen and half percent of normal subjects (control group) had calcaneal spur. Conclusion: Mechanical heel pain is Positively correlated with BMI and more common in females.

Keywords: Mechanical heel pain and calcaneal spur. Body mass index.