Plantar's fasciitis?

[Germaine_11.20]

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[Beekissed]

If you really, really want all this to stop, you will try these tips:

When you get up in the morning, I want you to take the ball of your thumb and feel into the muscles on the back of your calf. Find a very tender spot? Press on it. Hard. It will hurt like the dickens and it will start to radiate down into your heel. Hold pressure until that radiated pain returns to the spot where you are pressing.

Repeat this all across those two large muscles in your calf.

Now...do the other leg also. Make sure you maintain pressure until the pain is reduced and back to where you first pressed each time you do this. This is really going to hurt but it is only for a little while, then its gone.

Now...take a walk. A brisk one. Make sure you are rolling from your heel to your toes and flexing your calf muscles each time. Make a habit of walking just like this wherever you go...push off with the ball of your foot, flex the calf muscles.

Your calf muscles will be a little tender from the pressure you have applied but this will dissipate. As will the pain in your heels if you only just do this little thing and continue to walk properly with good flexion of your calf muscles.

Its very simple. Your calf muscles are encased in fascia that combines at the far end of your muscles and forms the Achilles tendon. When you calf muscles are underdeveloped, that fascia is thicker, less flexible and the tendon tightens and pulls against the bone in your heel. When you stand on the tightened tendon, this gets worse.

Imagine your muscle and the fascia around them as a balloon...when the balloon is less inflated, the balloon walls are thicker, less pliable. When inflated, the balloon thins out, is softer and more pliable. Same with the fascia around your muscles and the sheath of tendon that curves around your heel.

After the first time you have applied pressure to these muscles you may not have to repeat it until the next time you get lax in how you are walking. If it arises again, you know what to do to fix it.

I've fixed many in this manner, including myself. Surgical nurses, the elderly, marathon runners, factory workers who stand all day on concrete floors...I've fixed them with this method. You don't need surgery and you do not need expensive orthotics for this malady.

Try it!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Bee Kissed, have you ever used a Foam Roller? They are great, and I would never ever want to be without one again. Talk about hurt, but when you are all done.... mmmmm heaven.

 

[Beekissed]

No need for a foam roller if you just complete this little chore...you may never have fasciitis again! Why settle for temporary fixes that don't last when you can just start over and heal yourself?

 

[bburn]

I am going to try it....will try anything that might work. But, I had to laugh about the 'underdeveloped calf muscles'. Wish you could see my calves! Family trait. But tomorrow, before I get out of bed I will do it and put my walking shoes on and head out the door. It is just so uncomfortable and then sometimes so painful I can hardly walk. I just push myself on and walk anyway. I refuse to just sit!!!