plantar fascia

svincenz · December 15, 2009, 4:24am

It is a wear and tear injury so to speak.
Anyone who has had it knows it aint no joke.
Lots of ways to treat it and lots of ways people get it and varied degrees of how bad it is.
It is not a one to two week injury tho. It takes a long time to develop and therefor a long time to heal. Sometimes you can work around it if you catch it early and know the signs.
I helped one of Charlie’s former NFL clients deal with this while he was playing and almost at that moment he tore the tissue off and experienced a ton of relief. He is one of the lucky ones. Does’nt always happen to everyone for him it did and wa la…gone! ( sort of)
Part of the issue is that there is countless tissue and tendons in the foot and once scare tissue sets in you begin to get recurring problems.
In the initial stages you can warm it up as DMA has pointed out but if it goes far enough you need to spend more time to get back into action.
Preg woman get this after babies as their feet loosen and relax with all the other tendons for the birthing process to take place// there by losing lots of muscle tone etc. After the baby comes and it is business as ususal but the foot has lost muscle and strength that must be rebuilt.

I had the same problem years ago. Lot of pain, but I continued playing. One day, after landing, I ruptured the fascia. More or less one month of therapy and after that, no more pain.