Miracle cure for plantar fasciitis ?

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Is there anything that definitely helps with plantar fasciitis? I've had it since August, I've been wearing arch supports, I've been doing the recommended exercises, rubbing in voltarol. Nothing is helping. I've an appointment with physio just before Christmas, but am in holiday the week before and we'd hoped to walk around quite a lot. At the moment after ten minutes I'm in agony! Is there anything I can do or use that will help?

Sorry it's awful isn't it.

The way I got rid of mine (hopefully something new to try in there)

• Always wear footwear with good support. Don't walk around the house barefoot.
• strengthen calves - lots of regular exercise (the one where you go up slowly onto tip toes and then down)
• Special insoles in all shoes - which I think you've tried
• change up any exercise I was doing to reduce impact

its horrible isn't it. I think there are injections and shock wave therapy you can also try if it's not going. X

Yiu need to reduce the inflammation two weeks of highest dose ibuprofen (the ott strength 400g tablets )and ice for 2 times a day.
This is what my chiropodist advised and it worked. I

Crocs resolved mine.

Wearing Hokas outside and Crocs inside solved mine.

I had acupuncture . Painful but instant relief .

Rolling a golf ball under by foot helps a lot. I try and do this most evenings and the pain seems much less than before.

Wear crocs and never put your bare foot on the floor even when getting out of bed.
Freeze a bottle of water (small one) and roll it under your foot.
Stretch your calves by standing in the edge of a stair.
Roll a golf ball under your foot.

Time is the miracle cure. I tried almost everything, shockwave, inserts, recommended shoes, exercises. Didn’t do a thing. Eventually I gave up and got on with my life. My doc said it goes away in time and she was right. Took 10 months and now I’m fine.

Pain killers perhaps?

Ive had it twice. First time was only painful after rest, lasted about a year; dry needling, physio and losing weight helped. This time other foot, 18 months now. I've done everything with no relief and it has cost me a fortune. Steroid injections into the tendon have helped. Im also on Wejovy to lose weight, because I am in so much pain all the time not just after rest, i can't exercise well. Also have bilateral tennis elbow. Horrid.

A summer of wearing nothing but Birkenstocks helped dramatically. But ultimately losing 7 stone completely cured it.

Mounjaro resolved mine. After three and a half years of nothing else working. And I wasn’t significantly overweight when I first developed plantar fasciitis so it wasn’t the losing weight that helped.

Hard, spiky massage ball rolled firmly under the heel and sole of your foot. Absolute agony but it worked and hasn't come back. If it isn't hard enough to almost make your eyes water you aren't rolling hard enough!

Mounjaro. I had it for ages, absolutely nothing worked. Day 1 of injecting the lowest dose (so no weight lost yet) and it went overnight - it gets rid of all the inflammation in your body, absolute miracle drug.

I’d previously had some relief with taking everything anti-inflammatory possible, e.g. curcumin, pepper, ginger, nsaids… but it came back.

I have it right now, but mine is secondary to insertional achilles tendinitis.

I find I walk it off after a while, but when I sit down and then stand up it hurts again.

I'm planning to do a ton of physio this week to see if it helps.

I stretch my calfs on a slanted block (like a yoga block on a slant) and stand on tip toe of the affected foot - it's called loading, and all the body weight goes into it.

Massage the tendon under your arch, this is connected. Massage your calf.

But other than that I'm following. My problem is I hate wearing shoes at home and we have flag stone floors, so any good I do is immediately undone!

Mounjaro.

Crocs and rolling

What is your job?

What is your weight?

What is your body position most days?

It takes time and identifying what is causing it in most cases it is your foot being in a certain position most of the time.

TENS machine for pain, swimming, losing weight, rolling the bottom of my foot on a massage spiked hard ball (pain pain pain) and making sure my foot was not in the position that exacerbates it (use a brace at night) worked for me.

It is so painful!

Try using toe separator strips - walk around with them for 15 mins each day - hope it helps!

Time and wearing supportive shoes that held my foot firmly helped me.

Crocs! Never barefoot for even a second, never any other shoes for 2 months, all gone.

The fix for me was working out what was causing it. Turns out that wearing wellies to walk the dog was the killer. The plantar fascia got inflamed and it took months to settle, and was agony - it’s a really slow-healing part of the body.

And what helped support the healing?

1. An NHS podiatrist appointment where they made me bespoke insoles which were like walking on clouds!
2. Never, ever going barefoot. I have a pair of ugly but comfy supportive Clarks shoes that I wear as slippers indoors.
3. During a flare-up I’d keep an old rolling-pin by the bed, and would roll my feet on that to take the edge off the pain before standing up.
4. Massaging my feet each morning.
5. Learn to walk more lightly. Turns out i have strong heel strike, which hurt the fascia in the heels. Don't wear wellies! Comfy, supportive shoes at all times.

It took time, but it went eventually. If i get niggles, i just go back to the care routine to settle it down.

Good luck!

All the tips above, good supportive shoes being critical and inserts if you're wearing less good shoes. Don't walk around barefooted - my shoes got dirty/wet in the snow going into work last week, and I spent the day in my socks, but realised by the end of the day it was about to restart.

I also found massaging the soles of the feet and lower legs with a massage gun helpful followed by stretching.

The days I could sit at my desk with a rocking foot rest and/or a spiky ball were much better than those where my feet were flat on the floor.

At night use one a brace - just a sleeve/velcro wraps as you can still walk in them. They help keep your foot bent at the ankle, I was undoing a lot of the work at night as I sleep on my front and my toes were stretching out with the top of my feet going flat on the mattress.

Get a foot massager. They aren't that expensive. Easier than the spiky ball.

Acupuncture solved mine. It was quite painful and took about three sessions. But worth it.