I have taken a week off now due to a diagnosed arch strain. I do have high arches, but have never experienced anything like this before. What can I do other than rest/ice/massage/cross train, ect? Has anyone else ever had problems with this? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks
Don't push it, that's for sure. I tried running through a case of sore arches/plantar problems, ended up partially rupturing my arch mid-way through a race.
anyone else??
I had a mid-foot sprain a few years back. Wasted nearly 9 months (misdiagnosed as PF, found a new Doc.). After that, it was a couple months of PT with gradual re-introduction of running. They would ice it and give me electro-stim. I had to strengthen my posterior tibialis (heel raises; first two footed, then single footed, then increasing reps). Also had to strengthen the little stability muscles in the foot. This was done with towel scrunches (basically, you lay a towel on the floor, put your foot at one end and by scrunching your toes, move the towel toward and under your foot). After a while I added small hand weights to the far end of the towel to make the scrunch more difficult. Took a while but it worked.
was yours in the medial arch muscle? Mine was diagnosed as an arch strain.
I may have this..previously suffered from bad PF and was too stupid to take enough time off. I can only run on a treadmill but not outdoors due to higher impact. My foot seems too weak to push off a hard surface. May be another pain from PF for all I know.
Does any of this sound like a familiar result of an arch strain or something else? And is the elliptical/biking OK for recovery? Should I be taping my arch to support it or doing PT exercises to strengthen it? What should I wear while walking around during the day?
I'm planning on taking the rest of December off from running. My foot doc. appt. isn't until the 21st of the month, so I'm kind of playing a guessing game here.
Don't roll a golf ball, or any other kind of ball on it. I had an arch problem and any pressure on it only made it worse. Some doctors think that it helps, but it set me back a considerable amount of time.
What is the general recovery time for this? I've heard everything from a couple of weeks to almost a year. I'm not doing anything PT related until I get the official diagnosis - afraid it will hurt me more in the end if I'm wrong about saying its now an arch strain. I stopped the golf ball. I ice here and there. Now even walking around, I get little pains that are a sharp but tolerable "ping" in my PF spot when I put pressure down on my foot.
I'm just wondering how long I should be planning on not running.