Dealing with Plantar Fasciitis and tight calves? This is why..

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For some safe stretches that do not over stress the joints, check out my stretching tutorial with the video link below:
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[@Linda-et9nz]

I wish i didn't waste my time and money at the Podiatrists office. Can't stand him now. Thank you so much for these videos. You helped me more than you know.

[@freeheelpainhelp]

+linda floyd glad I can help!!!

[@crazygirlranch]

I really want you to know that you have truly helped me in the matter of the past 2 months! I had an extreme case of Plantar Fasciitis for about 8 months. You have opened my eyes to a whole new way of dealing with the pain. I really appreciate how you explain everything. Recently I bought a variety of toe stretching devices and WOW! huge changes! Thanks for the wonderful advice!

[@forestdweller512]

How are you feeling these days?

[@DavidChristieCareerCafe]

Love your work-go to the root cause rather than treat the symptom. Many thanks I'm slowly recovering.

[@AraceliLS]

You do a great job with these videos. Thank you. Very helpful

[@petargeorgiev7965]

I watch these videos since Wednesday and may God bless this guy! Been to several doctors and nobody have diagnosed me correctly. Big relief after 3 scraping massages, I hope I can get completely healed. Thank you!

[@jennierouge1050]

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[@frankg3rd1]

So young and knowledgeable ! Thank you !!!

[@mjharrison2010]

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[@gotdamnbaby1353]

You have the best content available for this issue!

[@lovep00chie]

Thank you for this breakdown!

[@raphaelbernard7954]

Great video well presented thank you

[@PerlaOC]

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[@TheAlfone1]

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[@antidepressant11]

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[@mikewazowski4472]

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[@botterweckwb]

Thanks for all your great videos and websites. I have been dealing with calf pain/tightness and plantar issues for the first time. I am a runner and used to run in a 4mm drop or less shoe in the past. This year I am running in 10mm drop shoes. That seems to be a popular drop for shoes. Vaporflys are 10mm, as well as Pegasus models. I like the feeling of running in a bigger drop, but do you think this is the cause of my issues. I am going to try your techniques. Thanks again.

[@mikehancho2517]

exactly how I am at work sitting . I hit me trigger points when I can ans have a work boot thats not to tall in heel now. but my feet have been sore. Ugh I need to hire you for about a week 😆

[@freeheelpainhelp]

haha I understand that. That i s a good soreness though! Careful. Nice and easy. Can take time to undo years of bad posture in the feet

[@37freeark]

My doctor has always suggested that I should wear shoes that are not flat, just with a little bit of heal.

[@pfurr281]

What do you think was the major thing that heals you foot and how long did it take?

[@raykirton6301]

What is the title of your kinetic chain stretching video please William? .....Ray

[@simonramsay6080]

You are so gorgeous and cute, but you give lots of good practical and sensible advice and information! :-) it all makes sense!

[@maheshg212]

Sitting at desk with high heels (not me) - - imagine how short calf muscles are going to be!! I have started flat heel shoes (vivo), with PF still there, but I am loving the feel of ground as I walk. but my calf muscles are tight and sore as a result though. Have been using "Knobble It Thumb Massage Tool", quite good to hold in hand and press trigger points.

[@freeheelpainhelp]

exactly!!!

[@bcdvideo]

You totally nailed it! I totally agree that sitting for long periods of time definitely can cause tight hamstrings, tight calves and sore feet. I speak from experience. Nice video...

[@mattg7777]

I'm a postman, who walks roughly 10 miles a day, plays football 3 times a week and I have plantar fasciitis. I've done all these things you demonstrated in this video, yet I still have pain. I feel like ive tried everything! Helppppppp meeeeee

[@sundancer7381]

Take a shot for "The 5-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution" by Jim Johnson on Amazon. After studying my problem (a knot on the side/back of the left heel) and pain on left side of heel......I slowly realized I had a combo problem. (It wasn't just Achilles tendonitis or Haglund's deformity, as many videos state). I had always associated plantar fasciitis just with heel pain from walking or running striking the heel. Over the 3 months prior to getting the book, I happened to start calf stretches.....and that did help. In this plantar fasciitis book by Johnson, he states that "a standing job" and ankle immobility.....(you have to have 11 degrees dorsiflexion) are risk factors for plantar fasciitis. It has you do one stretch......for 10 times for 10 seconds each.......three times a day.....for several months. You also do it several times a week just for maintenance after the problem is solved. There are people who have reviewed the book.....who had plantar fascitis for a long time....and had just about given up hope .....who found their solution here. No one states in their reviews that it removed the bump at the side of the heel. However, after doing 5 to 10 reps of this stretch, the bump goes down slightly. So, I have hope that I can get rid of that thing. I would suggest checking it out. Some ballerinas also have that bump on the back of the heel......standing....tight calf muscles....lack of ankle flexibility......it all fits. There is also 2 other exercises listed - but the main one you do 10 times and hold for 10 seconds each.....for 3 times a day. Why suffer? Get the book/borrow, etc. I sympathize......it takes a lot of time to solve these problems.

[@Marc_Lambert]

What if you have flat feet and plantar fasciitis? I’ve been wearing flat heeled shoes for around 5 years now but I’ve developed plantar fasciitis over the past 3 years. My podiatrist recommended me to wear shoe insoles that elevates my heel which sounds like the opposite of what you’re saying. Not sure who to listen to.

[@georgiosnikolaidis8592]

Σέ ευχαριστώ πολύ!

[@johnewald3148]

is that make up?

[@playaprinnces]

I found a Graston therapist near me and was told I would need 8 sessions 2x a week. Will that, along with doing trigger point therapy at home, get rid of my PF?

[@freeheelpainhelp]

Depends on how much damage or degeneration is in the plantar fascia. and your diet, your current health etc etc

[@playaprinnces]

Well I've had PF for almost 3 years now. Should I do scraping at home along with going to a Graston therapist? Or would that be too much? Also what's the MAX amount of sessions I should be going? It is all out of pocket unfortunately...

[@RichRich1955]

I remember a.chiropractor telling me about getting knots out of the calves. Can someone do it to themselves?

[@jakejakejak]

Yeah you can get a foam roller or a lacrosse ball, and if you're not sure how to use them then there's plenty of KZbin tutorials

[@matilde9014]

I am getting surgery for this tho :(

[@hover_roller_balance_boards]

Check my foam roller wheels training! I invented a new stretch where you sit on a chair and put your calf on a roller , cross the other leg on top and push the roller fwd to pull your leg fwd! Great traction

[@Brian5707]

Sorry I just have to ask... Dude, how the hell did you get so smart on the subject, you look like your 12 :-) Great videos on PF and achilles...keep posting! Maybe you could post a video on your background and story, would be a great watch! P.S. Are you on the road in a camper, just love the simple shot videos.

[@freeheelpainhelp]

+Brian5707 thanks!! I am trying to avoid aging actually. Am 27 this year. And I just read a lot of books honestly. Really have kept to myself or stayed at home with girls I dated. Have been pretty consistent with my personal studies. And yeah I have lived in a RV for years! Best way to avoid rent :D and I have another channel and website about my life at www.vehicledwelling.com. I do post a lot of my opinions on religion and other controversial topics. Just to warn ya haha. And thanks for the kind comments!!!

[@NoxVex]

Your pretty ❣

[@caasicam]

i get all that....so explain why i have it only in one foot and not both?

[@ClaudiaJazzy805]

Just wait sooner or later your gonna get it on your other foot.. you activity is still the same.. i'm a runner and I had PF on my left foot for 2 years this was about 4 years ago. now this year I got PF on my other foot.. so sooner or later you'll get them on your booth feet

[@freeheelpainhelp]

because of subtle differences in walking gait mechanics, limb legnth, development etc. many factors to consider. each leg was created differently. they look identical to you, but there are many differences that occured while they were being created. they are not symmetrical, but the body aims at symmetry.

[@freeheelpainhelp]

fix the root cause of pf and you will be good to go. watch my other videos and or read my articles at www.pfsurvivalguide.com

[@caasicam]

no...dont think so......its been years.......almost gone but has stopped my running career entirely....

[@freeheelpainhelp]

where was I wrong? What do you mean? I need details. Which specific point was false?

[@brianlooksaround6125]

Handsome guy.

[@roxy1522]

who let you be so pretty!!!!

[@nosheenkazim5374]

really all this time I thought heels r good for plantar.fasciatis

[@freeheelpainhelp]

absolutely horrible. can give temporary relief of pain because it shortens the calf which likes to refer pain to the heel. makes it much worse in the long run.

[@freeheelpainhelp]

There is no inflammation in plantar fasicitiis. which is why most doctors want to call it fasciosis because itis implies inflammation. And heels do not help plantar fasciitis.

[@freeheelpainhelp]

But when scientists actually biopsied fascia tissue from people with chronic plantar fasciitis, “they did not find much if any inflammation,” Dr. Philbin said. There were virtually none of the cellular markers that characterize that condition. “Plantar fasciitis does not involve inflammatory cells,” said Dr. Karim Khan, a professor of family practice medicine at the University of British Columbia and editor of The British Journal of Sports Medicine, who has written extensively about overuse sports injuries. Instead, plantar fasciitis more likely is caused by degeneration or weakening of the tissue. This process probably begins with small tears that occur during activity and that, in normal circumstances, the body simply repairs, strengthening the tissue as it does. That is the point of exercise training. But sometimes, for unknown reasons, this ongoing tissue damage overwhelms the body’s capacity to respond. The small tears don’t heal. They accumulate. The tissue begins subtly to degenerate, even to shred. It hurts. By and large, most sports medicine experts now believe that this is how we develop other overuse injuries, like tennis elbow or Achilles tendinopathy, which used to be called tendinitis. The suffix “itis” means inflammation. But since the injury isn’t thought to involve chronic inflammation, its name has changed. This has not yet happened with plantar fasciitis, and may not, given what a mouthful fasciopathy would be. The evolving medical opinions about plantar fasciitis matter, beyond nomenclature, though, because treatments depend on causes. At the moment, many physicians rely on injections of cortisone, a steroid that is both a pain reliever and anti-inflammatory, to treat plantar fasciitis. And cortisone shots do reduce the soreness. In a study published last year in BMJ, patients who received cortisone injections reported less heel pain after four months than those whose shots had contained a placebo saline solution. But whether those benefits will last is unknown, especially if plantar fasciitis is, indeed, degenerative. In studies with people suffering from tennis elbow, another injury that is now considered degenerative, cortisone shots actually slowed tissue healing.

[@freeheelpainhelp]

and no heels increase strain on it because it forces bones of the feet into a position that favors pronation. elevated heels and toe spring promote excessive strain on plantar fascia. google search what I am talking about. Not hard to find this information I speak of.

[@freeheelpainhelp]

And stretching causes more problems due to trigger point activity. Will make things worse. Need to fix trigger points first.

[@theplug4981]

You sound a bit like Mr beast