This story worries me.
Plantar fasciitis is a condition related to overuse and chronic micro-injury to the plantar fascia, which is the strong connective tissue that runs across the bottom of the foot. It causes stiffness and pain when walking, but it is usually more widespread across the bottom of the foot, and rarely, if ever, produces heat, redness, and swelling. It is not treated by surgical debridement EVER, and there is no pus involved.
If they actually drained fluid from your heel, you had an abscess, and that's concerning. An occult foreign body would be a concern (stepping on a splinter, for example) and not all foreign bodies are radioopaque and well seen on x-ray or CT. Another concern would be infection in the calcaneus, or heel bone, either as a starting point for this or as a consequence of it. I'm not happy with the appearance of the wound in the picture you posted. It looks like you still have significant erythema (redness) and swelling, and the wound is very shallow, which, unless this was a VERY superficial abscess, makes me worry that you haven't undergone adequate drainage. But of course, I can't actually see your foot, and I haven't seen the CT scan, and your doctor has. I do think this should be followed very carefully, and if your pain and swelling don't resolve fairly promptly, you might need some other investigation, like a bone scan of your heel. If you are diabetic, all this advice is even more important.
At any rate, the story you tell makes me think that this has nothing at all to do with PF, and even if it did, PF wouldn't contraindicate diving unless the diving activities caused pain.
Plantar fasciitis is a condition related to overuse and chronic micro-injury to the plantar fascia, which is the strong connective tissue that runs across the bottom of the foot. It causes stiffness and pain when walking, but it is usually more widespread across the bottom of the foot, and rarely, if ever, produces heat, redness, and swelling. It is not treated by surgical debridement EVER, and there is no pus involved.
If they actually drained fluid from your heel, you had an abscess, and that's concerning. An occult foreign body would be a concern (stepping on a splinter, for example) and not all foreign bodies are radioopaque and well seen on x-ray or CT. Another concern would be infection in the calcaneus, or heel bone, either as a starting point for this or as a consequence of it. I'm not happy with the appearance of the wound in the picture you posted. It looks like you still have significant erythema (redness) and swelling, and the wound is very shallow, which, unless this was a VERY superficial abscess, makes me worry that you haven't undergone adequate drainage. But of course, I can't actually see your foot, and I haven't seen the CT scan, and your doctor has. I do think this should be followed very carefully, and if your pain and swelling don't resolve fairly promptly, you might need some other investigation, like a bone scan of your heel. If you are diabetic, all this advice is even more important.
At any rate, the story you tell makes me think that this has nothing at all to do with PF, and even if it did, PF wouldn't contraindicate diving unless the diving activities caused pain.
