re: Plantar fascia release surgery on feet

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I've been dealing with this for 10 years, massages and balls have helped but I'm tired of it and have now acquired a spur on my right foot.

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If all you've done is massage and balls, and you're about to have surgery, you haven't been given good guidance.

DON'T DO SURGERY until you've done ALL of the following for 6 weeks:

1. Stretch every single day; get a pro-stretch, and stretch until you think you shouldn't stretch anymore, then stretch some more. My recommendation is stretch for at least 30 seconds or up to 2 minutes until you can relax into the stretch for at least 20 seconds or up to almost 2 minutes and repeat at least 3 times in the morning and 3 times in the evening. Try focusing on actively lifting your toes up while you stretch your heel down. You can do this on a step or slant board as well as the pro stretch.

prostretch

2. ALWAYS wear good shoes if you are weight bearing (go to a reputable running shoe store that can address your DYNAMIC foot strike and weight acceptance, basically your DYNAMIC footprint, and invest in their recommendations) or if you must wear bad shoes, add inserts specific for plantar fasciitis. You can get anything that adds cushioned arch support and cushioning pressure on the heel and the insertion of the plantar fascia. I bought some inserts at Walgreens that worked great. You can combine the inserts and good shoes as well.

3. Night splints are key. Keeping the windlass mechanism from tightening at night is important to prevent AM inflammation and scarring of the plantar fascia and tension on the insertion of the PF to the heel when you put your foot down in the morning, and there's no shoe or insert that can prevent that if you're sleeping with your foot in a plantar flexed position all night.

4. Do FULL range eccentric calf raises 3 sets of as many as you can do every day or every other day both keeping the knee straight and the knee bent. (gastrocnemius muscle with the knee straight and soleus muscle with the knee bent) Focus on the SLOW "negative" of the lift stretching the heel as low as possible and, again, try lifting the toes when you get to the end of the eccentric ("negative") position of the calf raise.

5. Anti-inflammatory medication as recommended by your doctor.

IF you do ALL of this with discipline for 6 weeks, you should have relief! Don't quit or get complacent!

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3. Night splints are key. Keeping the windlass mechanism from tightening at night is important to prevent AM inflammation and scarring of the plantar fascia and tension on the insertion of the PF to the heel when you put your foot down in the morning, and there's no shoe or insert that can prevent that if you're sleeping with your foot in a plantar flexed position all night.
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THIS!!!

What Brooks shoes do you wear? I am debating on Brooks or New Balance but the new 990 by New Balance is hideous. I have looked at the Glycerin by Brooks.

Do what Bronson said!

random question, i started having a sharp pain right between my achilles and my heal almost like a bruise. i thought i might have pulled the achilles but i researched and it might be this.

First why does this happen when we evolved to walk on 2 feel with out shoes?

two is my pain consistent with plantar? i done feel anything under my foot.


ETA: doesnt look like this is plantars but more maybe a bone spur on the top of my heal. frick me.