Plantar fasciitis

I had it for a year or so before COVID when I was running lots of miles. During the lockdowns, not being able to run with others diminished my desire to run. The rest seemed to deal with the plantar fasciitis.
 
Ian Bairds Ears said:
Wear trainers in the house at all times...it makes a massive difference
Any flat footed walking causes issues...
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I did the opposite and went from standard trainers to Vibram FiveFingers, in fact got rid of any shoes with a raised heal.

Ian Bairds Ears said:
Work on stretching your calf muscles...
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Totally did this, although OP sounds like he's explored it all already, calf raises & Achilles extensions, toe lifts, roller under my desk, anything to keep my feet active through the day.
 
Legz said:
I had it and it lasted about 6 months. Have you tried using an arch support....you can get them from Amazon
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Hi @Legz I'm.not sure about arch support that hasn't been made individually for the wearer. I know some people swear about this method and it does work if your feet match up exactly with the layout of the average foot model, but I have wide feet and I usually go up a size to accommodate that width. The arch support if it isn't an exact match for your can make the PF a lot worse, it did with me.

@sadgit I did various exercises , rolling a tennis ball under my foot, stretching - it can be a tight Achilles tendon that might lead to the problem, or at least keeps the PF in place. It was one stretching excerise that released the PF, I read about the Excerise on a Camino de Santiago forum, lots of people walking for weeks and months with this problem and there is a lot of good info floating about,
You have seen the build up of tissue on CT , but has that given you the long term experience of it yet? It does come and go, twice with me in 10 years, I walked for 70 days with it from Montpellier to Santiago de Compostela in 2014, it was agony but my mindset carried me through, it eventually went after 5 months of exercises after finishing my Camino, the final excerise that unlocked the tension was the practice I took from the forum, I also feel with this aspect we are all different and you have to find a practice which is working for you, it might be worth having a look around to find ones that you can do additionally to the ones already given to you.
When I got it the 2 nd time, I thought no problem I am at home and not walking lots of kilometres, what's the worst it can do, I found out, it hurt more 2nd time round and I was a little crying bitch about it, so I feel it comes down to mindset , you don't know when it's going to go , if at all, you have to be prepared to live with it as a permanent feature ( it won't be if you do the excersies ) rather than get into a mindset of "when is it going to get better". It hurts, we can all agree on that, but because it so hard to treat you have to not let it drag you down.
 
Had it plenty of times in the past. Sticking to neutral running shoes helps... and also wearing stuff like crocs/clogs/birkenstock type footwear that makes you work your feet a bit more.
But a few athletes that I coach have come back swearing by shock wave therapy.
 
I had it and it was soooo painful. GP referred me to JCH. Had my foot scanned and a support was made using the scan. This fitted in my shoe just under the arch. Felt weird at first but I got used to it.
Took 6 months from start to finish but the pain eventually went.
Specialist thought it was caused by my constant wearing of training shoes(adidas) that were totally flat on the bottom. I swapped to sketchers and not had a problem for the last 10 yrs.
The Mrs had similar problems and her doctor thought it was caused by always wearing flat soled sandals. She started wearing shoes with more support and her pain stopped eventually. Took around 6 months as well.
 
I had my last treatment last week and I've tried to not walk and rest my foot. They told me to use it more. So just 4 miles walk today, now in absolutely agony. They have discussed injections and surgery 🤐 walking is good for you 🧐
 
sadgit said:
I had my last treatment last week and I've tried to not walk and rest my foot. They told me to use it more. So just 4 miles walk today, now in absolutely agony. They have discussed injections and surgery 🤐 walking is good for you 🧐
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That sounds daft tbh. Why would you go from almost total rest to a 4 mile walk?
 
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