Hello again
Plantar Fasciitis, the excruciating pain we feel in our feet, a pain we’ve felt creeping up on us and thought it would go away and now, we find it difficult to walk and exercising is completely out of the question.
In my experience dealing with this condition, its not the foot you need to be concerned about, and I get the whole ‘but the pain is in my foot’ thing. Its the muscles above your foot being tight which is restricting movement in your foot and that’s where the problem lies. I strongly recommend watching the video above. Its an excellent eight minute easily explained version of what i’m talking about here.
To fix the problem in your foot we need to address what is going on above your foot and that means reducing the tightness predominantly in the calf muscle. YES we can still treat the pain at the bottom of the foot and reduce the inflammation there, preferably with ice or in severe cases anti inflammatory medicine may be another way to go but unfortunately there’s no getting away from it, the tightness in your calf needs to go.
There are a number of ways to fix this condition but not all of them will be for you.
Diet needs to be one of them and you need to be honest with yourself, are you giving your body the right nutrition it needs because at the moment it is sending a lot of nutrition to your calf and foot in order for it to deal with the issue that is going on there. I’m not going to go into it here as its not my area to lecture you on but the only thing ill say on it is a sensible diet is not too difficult to achieve.
Medicine, again I’m not in a position to lecture you here but another thing ill say is that if you choose to go that route then that’s ok, but you need to be aware that you are not addressing the issue which got you here in the first place.
Treatment, yes this where i come to the fore. Im going to treat your calf and release the tightness from it (see pic above) which ultimately will get you back walking exercising and doing the things you love to do but, it is not a magic treatment, it takes time, this part of your body has been tight for a certain period of time and its going to take another period of time to re-adjust the muscle to its new layout, its new pattern.
What helps this adjustment and quickens things up? STRENGTH does!!
Strength, making your calf strong, not tight! but strong, will hasten the recovery in no time at all. I’ve linked two videos below to help you with this. We are working on the basis that you activate and work the area to make it strong first ‘strength’ then secondly when its been worked we can now safely ‘stretch’ out any remaining tightness that might still be there. Be consistent (very important) which means everyday if not twice a day and remember strength first and stretch second.