Heel pain can be caused by plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, tarsal tunnel syndrome, or S1 nerve root compression.

“so it's important to recognize that this area of the foot um heel pain is its own animal and sometimes it's it's attrition of the fascia or the ligament the plantar fascia that attaches on the inner plantar surface of the bone you could have stress fractures in this area you can have insertional tendonitis where the Achilles attaches to and sometimes you can have heel pain because a nerve is compressed much like you have carpal tunnel syndrome you could have tarsal tunnel syndrome and sometimes people get just heel pain because they have a disc herniation that's affecting S1 nerve root only presenting as heel pain”