Minimalist Plantar Fasciitis

Scientologist,

Just because you are running with a minimal shoe does not gaurentee that your body will make the necessary biomechanical changes to run injury free. The changes must take place first in your mental understanding and then it can and will extend into your running with specific nueromuscular conditioning drills. My recommendation would be for you to go explore

www.posetech.com

to learn how to understand and most importantly perform injury free running. Good luck!

I had changed my form as well. I've read through that website before, but have also taken the advice I've read on old posts from minimalists that have had success with it.

I was basically wondering if running right now would be okay or just aggrivate it more. I know the minimalism or my form isnt the complete problem as I changed form and felt a lot stronger during runs.

The only time I ever got the PF was running in sprint spikes after not wearing them for over a year and wearing cushioned shoes after not wearing them for about 6 months.

Scientologist,

Again, I repeat putting your faith in minimalism is not the answer. Why? because using your intellect you can reason that efficient running is a product of your ability to use your muscles/tendons/ligaments to work with gravity as opposed to against it. Although wearing less shoe is certainly better than more shoe, it is not the best solution to the problem.

Faith in minimalism is not the answer?

I thought it was supposed to solve all the worlds foot problems?

Go over to Dr Jackmehovs message board if you want to spew your crap about pose.

You know, for the future-- you've got to nip any ache or pain in the bud before it gets too severe, whether that means immediately finding an area of grass to run barefoot, wearing different shoes, socks/no socks, running easy for a few days (~no hard workouts), 'lift' off the ground.... don't 'push', etc.. Walk around your house barefoot. Rather than continuously submitting the body to the 'stressor', you need to change the distribution of stress. It's a balance.

Jaguar1,

I really like your posts about minimalism, but of the success you've had with it after reading about the injuries you had.

Currently I'm walking around barefoot and during the day I wear the frees. I took care of the PF before and now the shinsplints are gone.

I never thought about the form as in lifting off the surface rather than pushing, I have just tried to stay more on the forefoot pushing, rather than jamming my heel into the ground.

For God's sake, man; there is a ton of information on Plantar Faciitis on the 'injuries/treatment' threads. Look them up. This is covered about once a month on here.