Plantar fasciitis- help!

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I'm pretty sure I have plantar fasciitis - pain in one heel, worse first thing in the morning and after I've been sitting, gets better with exercise.

If you have this, what has helped? I know I need to lose weight. What shoes/footwear have helped you? Anything else? Does it get better?

Thank you!

Sympathy. I had it for ages.

What worked for me:

Skechers and fit flop footwear. Make sure all your shoes are very well padded. The only exception to this was I found some cheap havianas on Amazon with tiny massage bumps on them that really alleviated the pain. The brand that worked magic for me was this one - Surf. They got rid of the pain when nothing else did. Apart form them I wore Fitflop boots and Skechers or Asics trainers all the time and have done pretty much all the time ever since except for nights out.

Lose weight. I lost a stone. That helped.I gave up cardio high impact workouts, including running and did lots of yoga and weights instead.

Tbh, I never found icing it helped at all. No painkillers helped either. Just better footwear and lots of stretching.

Birkenstock slippers, boots, sandals

"You don't wear summer footwear. You live in shoes that fit the orthotics"

Fit flop flip flops cured mine completely after months of struggling so you can certainly try summer shoes.

Although it sounds like it might not be PF if it's related to your tightened hamstring. But you can't do any harm by wearing shoes or flip flops with a supportive arch.

I suffer from this. Started after a weekend away where I was walking loads in flat, cheap pumps. Really thin soles. I now wear crocs in the house (used be bare foot all the time on hard floors), and I’ve invested in some really good insoles especially for it. They fit in most of my shoes. After only a week it was loads better. I now make sure I use my insoles as much as I can

Properly stretch out your leg muscles (and keep on doing this).

Strengthen your feet or it will keep happening. This means gradually transitioning to unsupportive flat footwear.

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Freezing a golf ball is even better.

Bob And Brad. God I love them. 🥰

The two minute calf stretch. GAME CHANGER.

Supportive shoes all the time. You can get cheap Birkenstock look alike two strap Eva sandals from Ebay to wear around the house.

I've got a shiatsu massager and I use that on my foot.

I keep mine at bay with all this and it's working. I'm a runner so my feet take a lot of pounding.

@springtimeishereagain it's all connnected. So probably yes.

The only thing that helped me was insoles. I've had some orthopaedic ones made, but the cheap ones from Aldi work just as well. I put them in all my shoes and boots. In summer I'm mostly in Birkenstocks, or nice supportive sandals if I can find them! And absolutely no flat shoes.

Actually stretching also helped, calf and foot stretches.

And now having read everyone's comments, I realise that taking up yoga must also have helped in keeping it at bay!

Yoga, brooks trainers for running with valsole inserts, vionic slippers (never take any steps barefoot), vionic shoes mostly, hotter and stride sandals for summer. I still get twinges but I was in so much pain-caused by working from home in flat slippers I think.

I found compression socks really helpful. Wear them all the time at first then at night when things improve. I never found suitable insoles.
I wear supportive lace ups all the time, indoors as well.They must be quite firm.
You need to do stretches several times daily.
I am better now but still need to wear the sensible shoes all the time and do stretches daily or else it recurs. I use a Physioworks adjustable stretch board from Amazon which helps with the stretches. I don't find the under foot roller helps.

Mine is related to tight hamstrings, plus I now get Achilles tendonitis.

Heel lifts seemed to help a lot. All the other advice doesn't work for me.

Losing weight seems to help many.

I've had SEVERE PF for years now and the only shoes that give me relief are Skechers Go Walk 5 (must be Go Walk 5, not Go Walk 4 etc!) I even have a pair for in the house so I'm not ever walking on any hard surfaces

Absolutely I would expect it to be connected to a right hamstring has been pretty tight

There are loads of stretches which can relieve tightness elsewhere and resolve discomfort in the body.

When pain shows up, I've learned to look at the 'other end' of the muscle which is complaining, to find the cause of the problem. Work to solve that will often resolve the presenting problem as well.

Some solutions to foot pain help in the short term but actually in the medium to long term make things worse, such as a slight heel or arch support. What they actually do is just keep the calf muscles always shortened so that after a while they will not be capable of extending. Fine for short term relief. Much better to find the cause for a longer term fix.

Hope you find what works for you.

You mean transitioning FROM unsupportive flat footwear!!!

Absolutely. I'm not medical - I only know from my own injury and treatment - but the calf connects to Achilles' tendon connects to plantar fascia. So a posterior chain injury can be felt in the bottom of the foot.

If your getting nowhere with PF treatments, try treating the hamstring. Roller to massage out the scar tissue, stretches to get the muscle back to normal length.