Plantar fasciitis

Tight calf muscles cause me to experience plantar fasciitis symptoms. Deep tissue massage of your calf may help both issues. Your foot may need ice and massage with a golf ball or other foot massage roller.

The only thing that helped me was buying orthotic inserts. I got over the counter ones and haven't had plantar since.

I'd recommend Superfeet inserts. Was skeptical but my PF went away almost immediately upon wearing them.

Icing and time off also do wonders.

PF is infamous for its stubborness. I've had it for years. it never goes away

Mvirmani wrote:

I have been suffering from plantar fasciitis in my left foot for about 2 months and have now been experiencing left calf pain in addition to it. Any tips on remedying this ailment?

Thanks

I've had success overcoming it.

My longtime physical therapist gave me the following regimen:

A. Foot pulls with a towel

1. Local gyms I frequent have a colored band with handles on the end. After I jog lightly I sit, with my butt slightly raised on the seat about 1 foot off the floor and use the handle to pull my foot back, at various points gripping each foot. Feels like a hamstring stretch but it stretches the plantar fascia.

B. Rolling the foot

1. My pts suggested icing and rolling on a frozen water bottle. I never did this and the option is there for unresponsive plantar fasciitis but I did fine using a Gaiam green textures plastic foot roller. You can get one off amazon for $10-$20 bucks.

C. Calf stretching

D. Strengthening the feet

I was given three exercises, of which I only did one. That was taking a medium sized towel on a carpeted floor and moving and throwing it in various directions with my scrunching toes gripping it.

For stubborn plantar fasciitis, there is also picking up marbles with the toes and putting them in a cup, as well as just the repetition of forming an arch with the foot.

By doing a lot of these frequently, I got over plantar fasciitis in both feet fairly quickly. Before I had done them, I had pain and nothing helped. I also used super feet inserts but they didn't really help.

Pf is aggravated by weight bearing exercise, so until you get results from a therapy regimen, lay off running and heavy lifting.

So many PF threads you could have looked up using this site's search ...

If I see one more new PF or ITBS thread I will ... well, not do anything except roll my eyes, I guess.

Search wrote:

So many PF threads you could have looked up using this site's search ...

If I see one more new PF or ITBS thread I will ... well, not do anything except roll my eyes, I guess.

Eye rolling does nothing for PF, I'm quite sure

Search wrote:

So many PF threads you could have looked up using this site's search ...

If I see one more new PF or ITBS thread I will ... well, not do anything except roll my eyes, I guess.

This site's search has been broken for ages.

Mvirmani wrote:

I have been suffering from plantar fasciitis in my left foot for about 2 months and have now been experiencing left calf pain in addition to it. Any tips on remedying this ailment?

Thanks

Spenco has an insert that is better than the superfeet. I have tried both.

You will still need to find a good physical therapist and it will take time to heal.

They say that once you have PF, you will always have it so make sure that you take it seriously.

Walking will help it heal, that's why I recommend the Spenco. You should be able to increase your walking distance, add a bit of running later, finally you will be able to cover a fair distance running. Depending on how bad you have this it could take a long time.

In 9th grade I got over it in a day. Then in my late 30s with Mayo Clinic help it took me a couple of months, in my 40s it took me about four months, in my late 50s it took 4 years. These are not exact time tables but you get the idea!!!

There is a huge industry for PF cures that sell because someone tries them just before the PF goes away by itself.

There's no cure!!! PF is physical damage. The fascia endure 800+ pounds of force repeatedly as they are the base that holds the arch together. When they are damaged, the body rightly decides disaster is near - losing an arch can kill a caveman, just like an untreated toothache. So it hurts like hell until it heals up.

Some of the "cures" may prevent recurrence of PF. None actually cure it. Like all injuries, it heals up in however much time it takes.

The last thing you should ever do is go to a podiatrist and get palliative things like cortisone that allow you to make things worse. If you can't run, don't. It's not the end of the world.