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Irwin M. Siegel, MD
Weiss Memorial Hospital Chicago

JAMA. 1968;206(13):2899.

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To the Editor:—

The benefits from any sport should be balanced against harmful effects secondary to the type of exercise performed. As Americans enthusiastically take to the gyms and playing fields, medical practice becomes enlarged by pathologic entities such as tennis elbow, baseball finger, and swimmer's ear. This communication presents several cases of heel pad discomfort secondary to a program of daily jogging, so-called joggers' heel.

The jog is an alternating fast walk and slow run using a heel-toe gait. A graded jogging program usually aims for at least 1 mile of such activity daily. This is often performed on a nonresilient surface, such as a sidewalk or street. Ankle injury secondary to jogging has been previously noted.¹

CASE 1.—

A 32-year-old man complained of persistent bilateral heel pain ten days after beginning to jog. In spite of discomfort, he continued jogging 1 mile each morning. Pain was most . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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