Kristin,
I am not sure about the long-term effects or treatment of plantar fasciitis. It sounds painful!
Since you said that you "wake up with intense heel pain", the Mayo Clinic has one remedy for you: "Before you get out of bed in the morning, stretch your calf muscles, arch and Achilles tendon by reaching for your toes and gently flexing your foot. This helps reverse the tightening of the plantar fascia that occurs overnight."
Other sites concur with the stretching as an important part of treatment and prevention:
"Simply reducing pain and inflammation alone is unlikely to result in long term recovery. The plantar fascia tightens up making the origin at the heel more susceptible to becoming inflamed. Tightening of the plantar fascia happens in particular over night which is why pain is often worse in the morning. A plantar fasciitis night splint (video) is an excellent product which is worn over night and gently stretches the calf muscles and plantar fascia preventing it from tightening up overnight." Have you ever heard of/used the night splint? (not sure if this is legit or not).
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Kristin,
I am not sure about the long-term effects or treatment of plantar fasciitis. It sounds painful!
Since you said that you "wake up with intense heel pain", the Mayo Clinic has one remedy for you: "Before you get out of bed in the morning, stretch your calf muscles, arch and Achilles tendon by reaching for your toes and gently flexing your foot. This helps reverse the tightening of the plantar fascia that occurs overnight."
Other sites concur with the stretching as an important part of treatment and prevention:
"Simply reducing pain and inflammation alone is unlikely to result in long term recovery. The plantar fascia tightens up making the origin at the heel more susceptible to becoming inflamed. Tightening of the plantar fascia happens in particular over night which is why pain is often worse in the morning. A plantar fasciitis night splint (video) is an excellent product which is worn over night and gently stretches the calf muscles and plantar fascia preventing it from tightening up overnight." Have you ever heard of/used the night splint? (not sure if this is legit or not).
January 20, 2009 - 3:59pmThis Comment
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