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Sock Doc Workshops…, the arch fatigues to some degree, and plantar fasciitis results. Plantar Fasciitis Pain Plantar fasciitis symptoms are usually worse in the morning, and tend to ease off or go away as you walk throughout the day. The pain can be sharp over one specific point, or more diffuse throughout the fascia (sheath of muscle) of the foot. Today this is treated conventionally with “night splints” to help stretch the fascia, and reduce muscle contracture. It…
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Plantar Fasciitis: The Pain You’ve Got That Doesn’t Even Really Exist
…s as simple as that; call me a sell-out. The Muscles Involved With Plantar Fasciitis Plantar fasciitis (PF), is when you have pain due to something wrong with that connective tissue on the bottom of the foot. Though typically in the heel region, it can be painful in the arch, or close to the base of the toes around where they bend. So since we’re talking about connective tissues, we have to look at where this connective tissue comes from, as that…
Plantar Fasciitis: Healing Up Your Heel Pain
…self or your patients, clients, friends, or whoever who might have plantar fasciitis. Typically, with plantar fasciitis, you have pain in the bottom of your foot, of your heel, your calcaneus bone. But you can actually have it in your arch, towards the ball of your foot, like where your metatarsals are, which eventually make up your phalanges, your toes. So, you can have… It’s diagnosed as plantar fasciitis anywhere in the bottom of your foot, rea…
Sock Doc: Treatment & Prevention of Plantar Fasciitis
…ve pain on the bottom of your foot, someone might diagnose that as plantar fasciitis, as heel pain, or as arch pain, but why did you get that? Plantar fasciitis is often from a weakness in the lower leg muscles as well as foot muscles that are the result of muscle imbalances caused from too much stress in someone’s life. That can be from too much physical stress. Either someone who is overtraining, an athlete training too hard, too often, too high…
Plantar Fasciitis: How Runners Can Learn How To Step Out of the Pain
…k-heeled supportive shoes for a long time – Do not stretch your calves, since this will only lengthen the injured muscle. Check out the Sock Doc Plantar Fasciitis video here. There is an updated Plantar Fasciitis article here! (2018)…
Foot Injuries On FLOW
…n injuries, I should say, is what’s known is plantar fasciitis. So plantar fasciitis is one of the most common injuries that runners and people who are moving about all day tend to exhibit and, actually, even people who don’t even move a lot. One of the most common symptoms of plantar fasciitis is when you get out of bed in the morning, you feel like your heels have basically a sharp object or a knife sticking through them. In other words, it’s a…
Sock Doc: Foot Pain & Foot Injuries – Natural Treatment & Prevention
…nation with your tibialis posterior that I talk a lot about in the plantar fasciitis video. Because it has so much to do with your arch and plantar fasciitis problems. Now, your big toe is the next muscle we’re going to talk about. Your big toe muscles, your flexor hallucis longus is this type of motion. If you have problems curling your big toe or even plantar flexing your foot. That muscle believe it or not, that helps to curl your big toe like…
A Case For Orthotics?
…masking the symptoms and not addressing the problem. Say you have plantar fasciitis, for example. The fascia running along the bottom of your foot is too tight, torn, or even degenerated, and it’s causing pain. Your foot is not moving correctly and most often this is from a problem (weakness) in the tibialis posterior muscle. The main arch of the foot is not supported correctly, proper pronation and supination of the foot is not occurring, and th…
Are Orthotics Really Ever Necessary?
…I recently saw a patient who was wearing orthotics because he had plantar fasciitis symptoms several months ago. Those symptoms were gone, (the orthotics helped him recover quicker), but now he had some shoulder pain when playing tennis. I had to correct several muscular imbalances in his injured shoulder using the manual medicine therapies which I utilize in my office but interestingly I had to correct even more in the foot that had the plantar…
Running Injury Treatment & Prevention: The Soleus & Achilles
…you have Achilles tendinitis or whether you have shin splints, or plantar fasciitis, or whatever injury you have, you know, you might be out running one day and all of a sudden you’re like, “Ah damn, my Achilles is just strained,” or you wake up one day and your foot hits the ground and your heel hurts, and your like, “Ah, I’ve got plantar fasciitis.” That obviously didn’t happen just right then and there. This was a developing injury over time b…
Sock Doc Video: Treatment & Prevention of ITB Syndrome
…ly the foot muscles. The strength of the feet, like I talked in the planar fasciitis video, is very important for your gait. Very important to support the rest of your body, pronation, shock absorption. Go barefoot as much as possible, like I’ve always preached. Stay away from those orthotics. The more you wear orthotics, the more you’re going to fatigue your feet, throw off your gait, and eventually end up with a problem. It could be an iliotibia…
Sock Doc Podcast With Endurance Planet: Shoulder Labrum Tears, Cortisone Shots, B12, Aspirin, and More!
…ance Planet Podcast with Tawnee – Healing An Unstable Shoulder, Is Plantar Fasciitis a Symptom of Overtraining? Plus: Risks of Repeated Cortisone Injections, Aspirin, Low B12 and More Healing an unstable shoulder joint after years of sports; treatments and recovery for athletes. Shoulder issues involve the labrum, bursitis and tendonitis. Options for shoulder healing including PRP, prolotherapy and cortisone. Male Ironman master’s athlete wants to…
Common Running Injuries
…k about some common running injuries. I want to talk briefly about plantar fasciitis and iliotibial band syndrome, and these other common running injuries that maybe you’ve already had, or you’ve heard about someone getting. There’s a lot of information on the Sock Doc site already about most of these injuries, and how to go about correcting them in a natural way, natural injury treatment, natural injury prevention too. Meaning, hey, if you learn…
Sock Doc: Foot Strength, Foot Rehabilitation, & Healthy Progression Towards Barefoot Movement
…are also great if you’re trying to recover from an injury such as plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendonitis, or you’re looking to develop more power and strength to become a more fit athlete. And of course, if you’re striving towards a more minimalist lifestyle and wish to be able to walk, run, and comfortably move about barefoot, this is the video to watch. Also check out the Sock Doc articles “Healthy People = Barefoot People” and “Lose Your Sho…
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…stream medical offices. Stretching may provide temporary relief to plantar fasciitis, an NSAID might reduce pain and inflammation, and an orthotic might lend support to any already dysfunctioning area, but none of these therapies will treat the root cause. When was the last time a podiatrist looked at your other (normal) foot? Or even perhaps more importantly, when was it that he or she examined the opposite upper body limb? Shall we talk about th…
Educate Yourself to Recover From and Prevent Any Injury
…nts which are individualized for you and only you. That means your plantar fasciitis may need a trigger point addressed on the back of your upper leg and you may need to change your training by easing off the anaerobic workouts. Someone else with the exact same symptoms may have a trigger point by the arch of their foot and they need to change their running shoes. Another with the same injury may not even have a trigger point but their foot pain,…
No Need For Knee Pain – Running, Cycling, or Anytime
…sugar handling problems, and perhaps a history of shin splints or plantar fasciitis. Sleep problems as I discuss here, and poor performance while training and racing are signs that the adrenals are taxed too. Evaluation of overall stress – training, diet, and lifestyle is of utmost importance. The muscles of the back of the knee cannot be forgotten as they often are. The hamstrings as well as the calf muscles are two of the major players here – w…
Sock Doc: Trigger Point Video – Natural Treatment & Prevention
…obviously if you’re working out close to your tibia here like for plantar fasciitis and you’re going down the inside of the tibia on that tibialis posterior muscle, you got a really sore spot actually on tibia bone, you can have a stress fracture there is it’s killing you that bad. But a lot of times its just tenderness from the fascial connections there. And don’t forget if you’re working on trigger points two or three times a day, which isn’t n…
The Least of Your Concerns: Arch Height, Weight, and Length
…ems associated with tibialis posterior dysfunction – shin splints, plantar fasciitis, and injuries associated with overpronation. FFF, or some loss of the arch of the foot, is common in athletes who have foot and lower leg injuries. However, if the complete or partial loss of the arch has been present for some time, the athlete may not be able to redevelop this arch. But that doesn’t mean that the injury can’t be fully healed. Regardless of the re…
This Is Why You’re Still Injured
…ou don’t just wake up one day and step down from your bed and have plantar fasciitis. You don’t just bend over to pick up your pen and throw your back out. These injuries take some time to develop and often there are warning signs and symptoms that are present as your body is letting you know you need to change what you’re doing and chill out or it’s gonna get bad. Let’s look at five main reasons an athlete becomes injured. These are also the same…
Sock Doc: Treatment & Prevention of Achilles Tendonitis
…ant from the injury, as I’ve talked about in the other videos like plantar fasciitis and iliotibial band injuries. In this case, stay off your Achilles. Don’t be pushing around right where that Achilles inserts into your calcaneus, your heel bone. Go up towards the calf. You might even have to go all the way up towards where your calf actually comes over to the other side, behind your knee bone, the tendons of the calf muscles up here where it’s c…
Achilles Tendonitis
…foot or calf muscles resulting in names like Achilles tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, or shin splints. But remember, it’s more important to diagnose WHY you have a problem rather than exactly WHAT you have. So whether you’re told you have tendonitis, bursitis, or a good ol’ pump bump, it means your calf muscle(s) aren’t working well and you’re biting off more than you can chew. In the Achilles tendonitis video I show ways to find the trigger point…
Shin Splints Treatment, Prevention, and Video – Save the Frozen Veges for Dinner
…pain begins. There’s a close relationship between shin splints and plantar fasciitis; the pain and injury just occurs in a different spot. Too much physical, dietary, or emotional stress that the body cannot properly adapt to can tax the hormonal system and result in shin splints. Overtraining can result in shin splints – training too often (even aerobically) or too intensely (anaerobic), without adequate rest. Don’t stretch those tender shin musc…
Running Pronation & Overpronation
…r muscle can relate to many lower-leg issues such as shin splints, plantar fasciitis, Morton’s Neuroma, a flat foot or a high foot arch. To help the tibialis posterior muscle to function correctly, I suggest the use of minimalist shoes, barefoot running & walking, and other health changes. Watch this video to learn more about overpronation, tibialis posterior fatigue, and how to improve lower-leg stability and natural mobility. If you want to move…
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…s Treatment & Prevention of ITB Syndrome Treatment & Prevention of Plantar Fasciitis Running Injury Treatment & Prevention: The Soleus & Achilles Leg Power: Key Muscles For Stability, Balance, & Performance Posterior Thigh Pain – Hamstrings, Calves, or Glutes? Assess, Treat, Rehab, and Develop! Foot Strength, Foot Rehabilitation, & Healthy Progression Towards Barefoot Movement Foot Pain & Foot Injuries – Natural Treatment & Prevention Trigger Poin…
Sock Doc: Treatment & Prevention of Shin Splints
…e, again your tibia and this is the one that I talked about in the plantar fasciitis video. It comes all the way down from the back of your leg here, I’ll show you more in a minute, all the way down to the arch of your foot. So you’ve got an imbalance between these two muscles and that’s why the pain persists. Now what will either happen is one of two scenarios. Either the muscle in the front, the tibialis anterior will spasm because of the one in…
Sock Doc Book: Natural Injury Treatment and Prevention
…nd prevention of many common athletic injuries and illness such as plantar fasciitis, tendinitis, exercise induced asthma, overtraining syndrome, and a host of other ailments which many athletes experience. The book will also discuss training principles, specifically aerobic and anaerobic conditioning as well as natural movement skills, so the athlete can not only greatly improve their performance but also their health and overall well-being. This…
Overpronation Is Really Not Your Problem
…bialis posterior problems and then overpronation. Shin splints and plantar fasciitis are two common injuries that accompany this problem too. Another adrenal gland hormone, aldosterone, is necessary for sodium regulation and electrolyte balance in the body. You may have heard the term hyponatremia before – more can be read here. If you’re training too hard and anaerobic too much then you’ll end up with cortisol and aldosterone problems, and you wi…