How To Treat Plantar Fasciitis & Foot Pain By Strengthening The Muscles Of Your Feet

Learn how to help rehabilitate plantar fasciitis by strengthening the muscles of your feet. These exercises are also useful in managing Achilles tendon pain and other foot and heel conditions that are due to weak muscles in the foot and ankle.
I've also explained the importance of why foot strengthening is important and what exercises you can do at home with just a rolled-up foam mat.
Timestamp:
00:00 - Intro
03:55 - Testing foot muscle strength
06:31 - Foot Rehabilitation Exercises
11:13 - Recommended number of sets & reps
11:17 - Thanks for watching
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[@JohnBullard]

I had PF for twenty years. I finally switched to wearing barefoot shoes full time about eighteen months ago. Now my feet are larger, stronger, and just don't hurt.

[@sweetsue4204]

Thank you. This was wonderfully helpful. 🤗

[@senatorjuke]

Thank you!

[@hectorortiz2220]

Gorgeous doctor 😍

[@jamiebrown6007]

Thanks for making this video. Very helpful information. One question - do these exercises help one recover from PF, or do they help prevent the next episode after one recovers? Thanks again.

[@primehealthco_]

You're welcome 😊 These exercises can be done as part of a preventative program to help strengthen the foot and maintain good foot biomechanics. Or they can be used to rehabilitate the foot when someone already has Plantar fasciitis. We would generally have someone doing these exercises daily when they already have PF as we want to see strength gains in the intrinsic foot muscles as soon as possible. As a preventative program, they could be done 2-3 x weekly.

[@jacquelineshelagh]

thanks!!!!!

[@primehealthco_]

You're welcome!

[@shrikurdukar]

please name the exercise instruments!

[@carpepedes3520]

I’d not seen these methods before. I’m going to give them a try. You’ve got great looking feet with the nice arch, toes and all the manly veins suggests good circulation. I want to get my feet to be just a healthy!

[@primehealthco_]

Thank you😆 🦶🏻

[@brandydhicks]

I have active painful plantar fasciitis, will doing these exercises during a active flair up help or make things worse? Watching the last exercise my first thought is my ankle will roll. That makes me nervous.

[@primehealthco_]

I would start off easy with them, maybe 1 set of 15 slow reps on a day. Then see if you've experienced an increase in foot pain the following day. If not, repeat this again the following day. When dealing with tendons (plantar fascia( it's not uncommon or unexpected to see flare ups occasionally. We would just scale back our reps/sets accordingly

[@brandydhicks]

@@primehealthco_ nod, thank you.