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February 1, 2013Pain in the heel is very common and most cases are due to a condition known as plantar fasciitis. The most common symptom of this condition is pain under the heel that is worse when arising from rest. After those first few painful steps the pain gets better, but progressively gets worse as the day goes on. A less known cause of pain under the heel with similar symptoms is a condition is known as Baxters neuritis or nerve entrapment. The symptoms of this may be similar, but the treatment is very different. Many of the resistant cases of plantar fasciitis really are a nerve entrapment. If the standard treatments for plantar fasciitis is not working then this Baxters nerve entrapment needs to be considered. Often surgery is needed to treat it.