Incidencia de fascitis plantar y su relación con el hallux limitus funcional en los jugadores del Centro de Formación Técnica de Futbol.

Abstract

The foot is one of the fundamental structures for the human being such as the plantar arch, it should be emphasized that even more for those people who live in sports such as football players, we know that the plantar fascia provides sustenance to the longitudinal arch of the foot, It is estimated that it is one of the most frequent causes in the sports population, which the objective of the present study was to demonstrate the relationship of functional hallux Limitus with plantar fasciitis, has as a crosssectional design and a quantitative approach. The sample consisted of 100 players attending the football technical training center, the same ones that were chosen through convenience sampling because of their accessibility, which have an age range between 15 and 36 years of age. The results obtained were with 21% of patients presenting plantar fasciitis assessed with Jack's test and the VAS scale, and 58% had functional hallux Limitus assessed by digital goniometry. Of which only 16% of the total population have functional hallux Limitus and plantar fasciitis. In the present study it was evident that the players who attend the football technical training center do not have preventive care related to the foot and the plantar fascia. Care that would provide us with a decrease in absenteeism in sports and greater performance. It is recommended to handle the loading periods and thus promote the use of recommended exercises.