Hallmarks of a functional medicine approach include: 1  Patient-centered care. The focus of functional medicine is on patient-centered care, promoting health as a positive vitality, beyond just the absence of disease.  An integrative, science-based healthcare approach. Functional medicine practitioners look âupstreamâ to consider the complex web of interactions in the patientâs history, physiology, and lifestyle that can lead to illness.
By Mayo Clinic Staff. Achilles tendinitis is caused by repetitive or intense strain on the Achilles tendon, the band of tissue that connects your calf muscles to your heel bone. This tendon is used when you walk, run, jump or push up on your toes.
Plantar Fasciitis. Also referred to as 'jogger's heel', plantar fasciitis is probably the most common cause of heel pain. This injury is the result of damage and inflammation to a band of tissue in the foot, the plantar fascia.The pain caused by this injury often radiates into the arch of the foot.auses. Plantar fasciitis is an injury caused by overuse and the resulting strain placed on the collagen fibres close to the plantar fascia's attachment to the heel bone. Repetitive over-stretching of the plantar fascia under the foot leads to thickening of the tendon, and damage to the surrounding fibres.