Plantar “Fasciosis” Fasciitis and EPAT® 

Hitting the reset button on healing.  Our FASMA doctors hear and see the frustrations caused by plantar fasciitis every day and would like to shine a new light on the injury.  Many of us have experienced this injury ourselves. Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. The plantar fascia is a band of connective tissue beginning on the bottom of the heel bone and extending to the ball of the foot. In a sense, it behaves as a shock absorber for the foot.  This condition has historically been known as plantar fasciitis, suggesting an inflammatory… Continue Reading

FASMA Expands to Greater Raleigh, NC

FASMA Expands to Greater Raleigh, NC Foot and Ankle Specialists of the Mid-Atlantic (FASMA) broadens its footprint, in North Carolina, with its most recent division, Piedmont Foot Clinic, adding four locations in Apex, Benson, Cary, and  Dunn, NC. As of March 1, 2020, FASMA will operate with 83 podiatrists, in 48 locations, throughout DC, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. (L to R: Drs. Elizabeth Daughtry,  Joel Kelly, Brian Futrell, Jacob Panici, Richard Hauser, and Jason Nolan) Richard Hauser, DPM, is a graduate of Temple University College of Podiatric Medicine and completed his residency at Riverside Hospital in Toledo, OH…. Continue Reading