How do you deal with plantar fasciitis and can you get away with hard workouts

Shockwave therapy, you can continue to train on it during the treatments and it will be gone in 4 or 5 weeks.

There is no cure for plantar "fasciitis" other than waiting for the damage to heal, which takes a long time because there isn't actually any inflammation. If you cause inflammation, maybe that will speed it up, but you have to identify and fix the root problem that overstressed it in the first place to keep it from coming back. Until then, running at all, especially hard workouts, will cause more damage and more healing time needed.

There are methods with stiff tape that can duplicate the function of the plantar fascia and take stress off them. Very basically the tape runs from the ball of the foot along the side, around the calcaneus, and back to the ball of the foot.

Years ago when I had got it after bumping up my MPWs what worked for me was overnight duct tape. It became routine and preventative for a while. But it worked.

Bad Wigins wrote:

There is no cure for plantar "fasciitis" other than waiting for the damage to heal, which takes a long time because there isn't actually any inflammation. If you cause inflammation, maybe that will speed it up, but you have to identify and fix the root problem that overstressed it in the first place to keep it from coming back. Until then, running at all, especially hard workouts, will cause more damage and more healing time needed.

There are methods with stiff tape that can duplicate the function of the plantar fascia and take stress off them. Very basically the tape runs from the ball of the foot along the side, around the calcaneus, and back to the ball of the foot.

So would you back off, or proceeded with planned hard workouts?

I never run on plantar fasciitis. I fear it more than any other injury. But that will not make any difference, I'm sure you'll run through it, everyone does the first time.

What actually is PF?

Bad Wigins wrote:

I never run on plantar fasciitis. I fear it more than any other injury. But that will not make any difference, I'm sure you'll run through it, everyone does the first time.

+1 to this.

It's highly dependent on the individual, but continued training with PF will very likely only prolong and amplify the injury. If you're in the beginning stages of PF, rest, night splint, and over-the-counter orthotics might help you recover in a matter of weeks. If you keep going hard, it could take months (and months) to effectively heal.

Personally, I had a moderate case of PF and went to PT. PT advised me that it would be no issue to keep training as long as I was treating the injury. It got worse, and I ended up with an injury on my other foot because I was overcompensating. Several months of bad training, and an expensive amount of co-pays later, I gave up on PT. I then rested for 75 days, used a night splint, over-the-counter orthotics, and along with strength training, was back running pain/injury free thereafter.

So what is PF? Googling it just gives me a headache.

Sleep in a sleeping boot every night

get a pair of saucony guide iso's, that helps it for me.

Stretch your calf and toe twice a day. There are many other useful toe exercises you can do. Watch some youtube videos to figure out which one would work for you.

I've had three bouts of PF. It's definitely no fun!

I've studied it a great deal. To fix it, I would recommend this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72p58Iy6u7M

Note that the stretching he recommends is specific in its practice.

And I would also recommend reading this very carefully:

http://www.runningwritings.com/2013/02/injury-series-plantar-fasciitis-in.html

Hope this helps!

You're hilarious.

An Ace bandage, already owned, wrapped around the arch (vertically) will keep the fascia tucked into the plantar area until the inflamation is gone, less than two weeks.

There was an article in Runner's World earlier in 2019, but they considered more factors lightly.

PF ruined my college career bc I refused to back off and cross train. Ended up having it for all of SO and JR year and had to take a full 6 month completely off of running +specially made orthotics among other treatments. Swim and take it easy until it goes away. Not worth it to ignore it. Take care of yourself.

Bad Wigins is bad and correct.

Let me tell you a little story my friends:

When I was in 8th grade I went out for track & field for the first time. I ran in Taylor high top basketball shoes (How many of you remember those? They probably cost $3 back then!). I like to run hard in practice and was very tired and sore. I also walked a mile to school, and 2 miles home after practice (Yes, uphill both ways). To make a long story short after practice

one of my feet started stinging as if electricity was going through it! It was so bad I had to sit down for several minutes.

Being all of 12 years old though I recovered quickly and walked the 2 miles home. I ran in practice the next day and finished the season w/o any pain. I never ever had a problem with it again for 28 years or so.

But what happened to me when I was about 40 and ate thunder and crapped lightning? I heard our head track coach (also the head football coach similar to Lombardi) give a fiery speech. We ran a course that had a lot of hills, I being fired up beat all of my kids on it even though I was not as fast as some of them. Double Plantar Fasciitis.

They say once you have it you always have it. That is basically true although I've been able to get it under control

often.

Just do not mess with PF. At least not until they come up with a cure.

Millennium Falcon wrote:

You're hilarious.

An Ace bandage, already owned, wrapped around the arch (vertically) will keep the fascia tucked into the plantar area until the inflamation is gone, less than two weeks.

There was an article in Runner's World earlier in 2019, but they considered more factors lightly.

There are a lot of things that will get rid of it in the short term.

Back off training. I had it and tried training through...big mistake. Think about pool workouts, swimming, rowing machine and other alternative workouts. The more you ignore it now, the longer you may be in recovery.

I had it once, cured it, never had it again. I still have the device to wrap the arch.