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…eet-first flag on plantar fasciitis, the scourge of runners. If you’ve had plantar fasciitis, you know what an icepick-jabbing-in the-bottom-of-the-foot nightmarish pain it can be. Kuru’s “remedy” is more shoe and lots of it. Its complete product line of walking and running shoes feature a reinforced arch, energy-return foam piece, a whopping big insert called a HeelKradl, a molding sockliner, EVA midsole, and the dual density outsole. Yet ironica…
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Plantar Fasciitis: The Pain You’ve Got That Doesn’t Even Really Exist
…ta completely undo what I just said I’m going to go back to using the term plantar fasciitis. Why would I do this if it’s completely the wrong name to call it? Two simple reasons: 1) It’s what people still call it today and what they understand; nobody is talking about their aponeurositis. 2) This is a website, therefore I have to write according to the laws of Google so it, and all of its web-crawling bots, can see, identify, link, and properly s…
Plantar Fasciitis: Healing Up Your Heel Pain
…why people get this type of foot pain, and what you can do with respect to plantar fasciitis natural treatments. See the accompanying plantar fasciitis article here! Video Transcript Hey, this is Dr. Gangemi, and I’ve got a new Sock Doc video for you here. It’s been several years, almost three, since my last Sock Doc video, and seven years since the original Sock Doc site started as well as my first video on plantar fasciitis. And this video is…
Sock Doc: Treatment & Prevention of Plantar Fasciitis
…f you have 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,…
Plantar Fasciitis: How Runners Can Learn How To Step Out of the Pain
…and weaken foot muscles. Here’s why you really get it, and really fix it . Plantar fasciitis occurs most often from the fatigue of the tibialis posterior muscle. This muscle is behind your lower leg bone and supports the main arch of your foot. Problems arise from injury, lower leg dysfunction, and/or adrenal gland (hormonal) stress. Pretty much if you have plantar fasciitis you are under more stress than you can handle – whether that be from over…
Foot Injuries On FLOW
…st common 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,…
Sock Doc: Foot Pain & Foot Injuries – Natural Treatment & Prevention
…e where I left off on a plantar fasciitis video. If you want to know about plantar fasciitis, check out that video. We’re not going to talk about that here, even though obviously it’s a food heel problem. But your plantar fascia, that sheath on the bottom of your foot is made up by, or supported by I’ll say, the tibialis posterior muscle. And that attaches to your medial arch. This muscle has an important role in natural pronation, shock absorptio…
A Case For Orthotics?
…s simply 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…
Are Orthotics Really Ever Necessary?
…thotics. 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…
Running Injury Treatment & Prevention: The Soleus & Achilles
…? They get ITB syndrome, like Tyse [SP] did, that’s super common. They get plantar fasciitis, probably one of the most common injuries. Achilles tendinitis, shin splints, these lower leg, foot, ankle injuries, super common. So since we have kind of a short time tonight, I wanted to think, or I thought about one muscle that a lot of people underestimate, maybe undervalue, and can make a pretty big difference in how you can prevent an injury, and al…
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!
…workouts or strength training with the intent to boost MAF? Cortisone for plantar fasciitis (PF). The Sock Doc says, never everrrr get four cortisone injections in the same spot! The real deal and real cause of PF in most cases. PF is almost always tied into overtraining and related to adrenal burnout as well. http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/7/4/b/74bfcfae0ce1dda5/Sock_Doc_March_2017.mp3?c_id=14614518&expiration=1491358288&hwt=cdff66fd39962a93aa1d6c1a5…
Common Running Injuries
…u’re doing whatever activity, and you’ve got pain in your foot. You’ve got plantar fasciitis. You’ve got pain on the side of your knee. You’ve got iliotibial band syndrome. Maybe you’ve got pain on the front of your lower leg, shin splints, or some numbing-type sensation in your foot, Morton’s neuroma. All these injuries, for the most part, unless of course you actually fell and injured a muscle or injured a joint or a tendon at that time, most in…
Sock Doc: Foot Strength, Foot Rehabilitation, & Healthy Progression Towards Barefoot Movement
…to run more barefoot and slowly progress up so I can do those things without injuring myself. These exercises are also great for foot rehab from Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, shin splints, those sorts of things. And help your overall balance and health. Thanks….
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…
Overpronation Is Really Not Your Problem
…l and tibialis 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, an…
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,…
Sock Doc: Trigger Point Video – Natural Treatment & Prevention
…here and 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…
The Least of Your Concerns: Arch Height, Weight, and Length
…er problems 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 o…
This Is Why You’re Still Injured
…jured. You 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…
Sock Doc: Treatment & Prevention of Achilles Tendonitis
…ook distant 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 wher…
Achilles Tendonitis
…ure your 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 trigg…
Shin Splints Treatment, Prevention, and Video – Save the Frozen Veges for Dinner
…so the 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 s…
No Need For Knee Pain – Running, Cycling, or Anytime
…nd blood 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…
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…n Splints 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 Trig…
Sock Doc: Treatment & Prevention of Shin Splints
…shin bone, 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 th…
Sock Doc Book: Natural Injury Treatment and Prevention
…atment and 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-bei…
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…in mainstream 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…
Knee Injuries & Pain (2/2) – Posterior & Medial On FLOW
…ke this, whether your toes are pointed or flexed — this is dorsiflexion or plantar flexion — but I’m feeling pain in my knee or instability in my knee, yeah, you can have a problem with your hamstring obviously because that has to do with this motion too. But more so, more often are calf problems, calf injuries, that have to cross the joint, the crease in the back of your knee and attach into the femur here. So you’re going to look for tender spot…
Sock Doc Video – Leg Power: Key Muscles For Stability, Balance, & Performance
…umbs to see if there’s any tenderness in here. Now your soleus pretty much plantar flexes your foot like so. So if you notice any problems with stability or even knee pain or pushing off and powering you forward whether it’s up a hill or up stairs, think calf but especially think soleus. And I want you to look for trigger points in there and as I’ve mentioned before, pretty much stay off the Achilles tendon if your Achilles tendon is a little bit…
No, It’s Not Your Hammy
…amstring. Speaking of the soleus, athough this lower calf muscle primarily plantar flexes the foot, it actually has a huge impact on lower leg and knee stability. A failing (fatigued) soleus can result in a slew of problems, especially to the hamstrings. Trigger points are often found around the sides of the Achilles tendon as well as the just below the belly of the gastroc. (* See photos #2 and #3 at bottom.) Dig deep! Let’s not forget to look ab…