Because of the lack of personnel and the recruitment failure of participants.

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of manual therapy and of manual therapy associated with hip strengthening in the recovery of patients with heel pain.

Heel pain decreases function, balance, walking and can cause change in the movement pattern. This alterations can induce a deficit in motor control of other structures as knee and hip. There is an importance to compare the effects of manual therapy and manual therapy associated with hip strengthening on the recover of patients with heel pain.

After the initial assessment and data collection, participants will be randomly assigned to one of two intervention groups. Randomization will be held electronically in http://graphpad.com/quickcalcs/index.cfm site by simple random sampling. Patients will be treated for a maximum of 10 sessions, each session lasting about 40 minutes and each week two sessions. The maximum duration of treatment is 3 months. A physical therapist will be responsible for the screening of eligible patients and the random allocation of participants A second professional will be responsible for physical therapy initial and final evaluation and will be blind to the interventions. A third physical therapist will perform the interventions. The physiotherapist in charge of intervention will be blind to the initial and final evaluation.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with heel pain, that increases on the first steps after a period without activity and with long periods on standing position, regardless of age and gender and that didn't went under any physiotherapeutic treatment in the last 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have a history of surgery on the lower limb on the past 6 months; patients with bilateral heel pain; patients under psychiatric treatment; patients that went under a manual therapy scheme treatment for heel pain before; rheumatic syndromes; patients who receive some benefit labor or patients underage.