Plantar fas-e-i-tus (spelling?)

jaywooly

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Been diagnosed in both feet. Been working 7 10's, 12's or even 14+'s at my new job (why I'm too tired for the puter). It's new construction at a refinery so it's on your feet all day long. PLus I had tried to stick with my cardio while doing so (60 minutes on the treadmill 5X's a week). The impact finally got to me.

I stress to anyone who is going into construction, buy great boots. I got some redwings after the wolvarines didn't work out. Also, make sure you have decent running shoes. I went out and got some high-arched newbalances that are extremely light. Doing that change helped out a lot but still not enough as bad as I let it get. I just went in today and got a cortizone shot in my right foot (worse off foot).

We'll see how that goes. Hopefully I can get back to my training very soon.
 
Explain the symtoms. I have (been having) pain in my heel that sometimes starts
running up the outside of my ankle (mabey that is from favoring the heel). I work
construction and am on my feet all day - always moving, stairs ect. It has been
a couple of months (I hate doctors). I bought the inserts for my heels and it has
helped. What kills it is walking with no shoes on hard floor. Sound like the same
thing Dr. Jay????
 
it's spelled Plantar fasciitis.
stretch your calves bro, most of the time plantar fasciitis comes from your calves being too tight but most of the time you're right it's just overtraining and bad shoes. What most people don't realize is that the moment you start running in your shoes they begin to break down and most are only good for 300 - 350 miles and if you're over 200lbs. then they break down even faster.

I had really bad leading into the Chicago Marathon and I went for accupuncture as a last resort. I wish it was the first thing I had done because it worked wonders and it worked immediately, I limped in and got treated and was running that night (not recommended but I had to). I had 4 treatments over the course of 2 weeks and ran the Marathon with no pain 2 weeks after my last treatment
 
you'll also find that waking up in the morning is the worst part, I still get it from time to time when I wake up early and step down onto the cold floor, I keep a pair of slippers next to the bed now like an old man and I try and stretch my calves and feet before stepping onto the floor
 
THANKS Mikeswift, good read. Sounds like I got it. Will try some of the self help
methods and see if it gets better. Then mabey acpuncture - I think my inshurance
covers it.
 
Mike has given great advice here. The first thing you need to do in the morning, before you put your feet on the floor is to get a tennis ball or a glass coke bottle that's on your night-stand and roll it under your foot for a few minutes. This will loosen it up a bit. Acupuntcure is one way to go, but there is something else I think it would be good for you to try at home. It is a technique called Counterstrain that is normally done by an Osteopathic physician. I don't know much about accupressure, but I would venture a guess it is similar to that. I'll explain it in the next few paragraphs. But first I am going to put up some links.

http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/content/full/106/9/547
This is an article from the Journal of American Osteopathic Association showing that counterstain is effective in the clinical outcome of patients with plantar fasciiti

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cach...iitis+OMM+techniques&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us
This is a facilitators guide for teaching lowly med students (like me) how to treat plantar fasciitis.

What I am going to talk about it only counterstrain. This coupled with the stretching and ball rolling Mike gave you should take care of it.

Counterstrain doesn't take an extremely long time to do, but it does require you to be very intentional about your movements while you are doing it. The keys are to find the place of most comfort, stay there for a minimum of 90 seconds, and then take at least 45 seconds moving your foot back to the normal position.

Counterstrain is used to treat a variety of things in the body, but mostly it is associated with removing painful points, referred to as tender points. These are the places in your foot that hurt the absolute most when you press down on them. The key here is to find this point and then bend your foot around it.

By this I mean you can put your foot on your knee, take the hand opposite the injured foot and find the most tender spot with your thumb. Once you've found it push in on it...this is a 10 on a pain scale (it doesn't matter how tough someone is here, this is always a 10). Once you've found this point that finger never leaves it until you are gone. The next thing you will do is to take your other hand, grab your toes or the front part of your foot and bring them into plantar flexion (pull your toes down toward your heel, specifically your big toe and the ones next to it). Then you should press on the tenderpoint again to compare. This will usually be significantly better, but you want to get it to the place of little to no pain at all. If you are there now, great...if not, keeping your toes in the position they are in and with the same hand, turn your foot in or out (inversion or eversion). Once you find the position of most comfort you should hold this position for at least 90 seconds. It is not uncommon to feel a release in the fascia beneath your fingers sometime in the process, you may also begin to feel a pulse, but if you don't it's still ok. Once the 90 seconds are up you have reset the afferent muscle fibers there. You need to bring it back to the normal position it was in before you started to mess with it very slowly. It is also very important to go backward in the same direction that you went forward. So you would roll your foot back from the way you rolled it, and then bring your toes and forefoot back into normal position. This is counterstrain.

A side note here: if this does work well for you, you may start to feel a little worse right after for about 10 minutes, at least that's what we're told...but I've been using this on my wife's back and today foot and she's never had any of that. Also, you don't want to treat more than 3-4 tenderpoints in the same day. If the pain does not go away with the treatement and it was done right it is not a tenderpoint, but something more serious.

I don't know how long this is, but I believe it will give you some immediate relief and coupled with the stretching and rolling you should get better soon. Let me know if I need to clarify anything.

Spidey
 
Damn Bro Wolverines Are Suppose To Be Top Notch I Got A Pair Years Ago For Construction,
 
it doesn't mean the boots have anything wrong with them it's just where your arches are and how long you're in your boots. I guarantee the boots weren't the problem that his running shoes had too many miles on them, his calves were tight and/or he's running too many miles, too fast. I've had it come and go over the years and sometimes I could be in flip flops for days at a time and other times it was just from my calves getting tight.
 
I have always had trouble finding shoes that do not hurt my feet. I worked in construction years ago and wore Dr. Martens steel toes. I still have them and wear them working outside. They are the most comfortable work boot I found. For tennis shoes I always wear New Balance or Asics. They come in 4E widths, are light and for some reason my feet do not hurt at all with them.
 
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