Richard Clark on plantar heel pain

Richard Clark and the ACU-Track team talk through the challenges with treating plantar heel pain and the state of the current evidence base.
Richard's website is a community resource for those who are suffering from or attempting to treat plantar heel pain. The website has a variety of invaluable information from Richard's methodology, point protocols and research and reference materials: https://podac.info/
Richard refers to various diagrams, articles and his book! Links are below including some interesting further reading ...

Richard's article discussing medical acupuncture short courses
James, R, 1998, There is more to acupuncture than the weekend course. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 6 (4),203-207.
http://www.integrativehealthcare.co.uk/timtatwc%200709.pdf
Systematic Review
Clark, RJ & Tighe, M, 2012, “The effectiveness of acupuncture for plantar heel pain: a systematic review” Acupunct Med 30: 298-306 published online doi: 10.1136/acupmed-2012-010183.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1136/acupmed-2012-010183
Critical Interpretive Synthesis
Clark MT, Clark RJ, Toohey S, et al.(2016) “Rationales and treatment approaches underpinning the use of acupuncture and related techniques for plantar heel pain - a critical interpretive synthesis”. Acupuncture in Medicine. Published Online First:9/7/16. doi:10.1136/acupmed-2015-011042.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1136/acupmed-2015-011042
Richard's book
Advances in acupuncture for heel pain: towards integrative practice and research
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Advances-acupuncture-heel-pain-integrative/dp/B08PJK8WXN

Richard's Blog page that refers to multiple uses of KI3
https://podac.info/the-many-facets-of-taixi-ki3
Images
DO points https://podac.info/the-do-points
Patchwork model https://podac.info/elementor-768
Space-Time image (scroll down) https://podac.info/elementor-768
Further reading
Maura Flannery’s article giving the feminist perspective Flannery, M. C. (2001). Quilting: A Feminist Metaphor for Scientific Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry, 7(5), 628–645. https://doi.org/10.1177/107780040100700507
Richard's article elaborating on Refractive Practice
Clark, RJ. Reflective and Refractive Practice: Lessons from Reviewing Acupuncture for Plantar Heel Pain. Journal of Chinese Medicine 2022 130 17-28.
https://www.jcm.co.uk/reflective-and-refractive-practice-lessons-from-reviewing-acupuncture-for-plantar-heel-pain.html
Full text versions of the SR and CIS, plus a list of Richard's other publications are available on his ResearchGate page
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Clark-5