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?

I bought a night splint from amazon. It sorted out my PF in about a month and it hasn't come back.

It was one with velcro straps and metail splint that runs along the top of the foot from toes to above the ankle. It keeps my foot in an L shape all night, which lengthens the calf muscle.

I wear slippers with arch support in the house all day. Mostly so I know I have done what I should to stop it coming back. But the splint was what sorted it.

I had had it for years and tried almost everything else. The splint cost less than £20.

Deep tissue massage solved mine.

I cured mine after suffering for a year, by constantly rolling a hard tennis ball around under the affected foot. It truly felt like a miracle. If I’ve had twinges since, I’ve immediately deployed the tennis ball. It works every time.

Do you have a link to the one you bought? There are so many and some of the reviews say it didn't help.

I doubt a stone and a half is going to make a huge difference to PF.

crocs are more cushioned than Birkenstocks and better for immediate pain relief indoors. Outdoors you need trainers with a lot of cushioning. It varies a lot so make sure to get very cushioned ones.

Yes just look up plantar fasciitis brace for bedtime. Loads on Amazon. Your foot naturally (mine anyway) goes into a position at night that makes it worse. The braces aren’t 100% and can be quite expensive (start with a cheaper one).

Tens machine helped my pain. I also had tennis/golfers elbow and painkillers weren’t touching it but blasting it with a tens did the trick eventually!

I know it’s hard but not moving and not mobilising made it worse in my case. Can you swim?

I had it really badly for a year .
First of all you have to find out what's causing it.
You need to have a foot scan & probably shock wave therapy. Nothing solved mine until I went to a foot specialist who said I had an almost completely ruptured plantar fascia. Taping every week really helped & shockwave treatment - 4 or 5 treatments & scanning to check how my foot was healing.
He also recommended shoes.
Oofos for home wear - beautifully cushioned flipflops, slippers & croc type shoes, hoka for walking shoes/trainers & a couple of other brands which I've forgotten. After my foot improved I had customised insoles made & I wear these all the time.

The most important thing is you need to go to someone who know what they're doing. I went to a useless physio for months who was giving me totally ineffective Shockwave treatment.

Wearing hokas during my daily walks
Any shoes needed good insoles ie more expensive amazon ones rather than cheap ebay ones
Walking more/through the pain

I was really shocked to get it. And now its gone, ill never take my feet for granted again! Its not necessarily all weight as I know marathon runners who've had it.

As a lot have already said.
Stretches.
Frozen bottle of water.
In soles.
Never barefoot.
Slept in a splint. If I was watching TV I would wear it, it was adjustable so it could hold the stretch.
Spikey ball - go beyond the pain barrier.
Ibuprofen.
Lost weight.

Took 10 months for it to go, I had to work hard to fix it. I would crawl first thing in the morning it was so bad.

It’s not the losing weight. Mounjaro reduces inflammation which resolves the PF.

I second this, though I’ve found you have to do it HARD…so you can feel/almost hear the crunching!

@wherewillwegoto something like this, i hace one with 3 velcro straps from toe to front of ankle though.

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The only thing that worked for me was an ultrasound guided steroid injection in the bottom of my foot. I had been in agony for months and struggling to walk.
The pain went away almost instantly and never came back.

Do you waggle your feet and wake them up before standing on them? I find stretching and wiggling them in bed before I get up, then straight into crocs- it’s the bouncy rubber that helps. I had a pair of slightly too tight fly London that helped, too. The foot couldn’t splay as I stood on it because the shoe confined it.

It’s like the fascia gets stiff like old bluetac overnight, and needs to be softened and warmed up so it doesn’t snap when you walk on it.

I have to be honest I tried all of these and most of them didn't work at all, except losing weight and never going barefoot. Icing it made the heat even worse, ibuprofen didn't make any difference, nor did stretches. It's weird how some things work for one person but not for others.

The only thing that got rid of mine was the laser treatment, and now I wear flat but supportive shoes or trainers. I will never wear heels, and I’m never barefoot.

Snap! I had PF for a couple of years, insoles and a spiky roller thing helped but it was always niggling away. After about a month on mounjaro it went away and I've heard other people say the same thing. It can't be the weight loss as it was too quick. MJ works on inflammation so lots of little niggles I had have also cleared up eg excema, early stage gum disease

I totally agree. And I am tired of hearing people say 'Oh podiatrists think they are terrible for your feet. What they mean is: they don't work with the expensive insoles they try and flog you. Podiatrists aren't the ones with the foot pain. I am. And I know Skechers allowed me to walk again for many miles with zero inflammation at the end of the day. Just like the super cheap flipflops from Amazon £7 instead of Oofo £75 - they just worked.

OP you might need to experiment. For me Skechers for walking around town, or Fitflop boots with very thick socks in bad weather; proper hiking boots with thick socks for country walks, massage flip flops around the house and sheepskin lined slippers on cold days - these are the saviour footwear.

And losing weight does help a lot.

Night socks. They have a strap which pulls your toes up overnight so your foot cannot drop and the fascia is stretched all night long.

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Mine was aggravated by an old ankle injury. That ankle has been wobbly for decades. PF is much, much better since i started wearing lace up boots.

I wore tight elastic support socks and that helped ease the pain.
Do the exercises
Always sit with your feet up
Wear supportive shoes indoors and out.

I have been wearing fitflop boots since they introduced them but they don't do a simple boot any more - I ordered what I thought looked like the plainest black boot and it's about twice the weight of my usual boots and it hurts my achilles.

In my experience, once one thing goes wrong with your foot, you solve one problem and create a new one!

I wear fitflop sandals in summer and joya trainers when I can but I need to find something to replace the fitflop boots.

Agree with these posters, acupuncture worked for me - I had to have a few sessions of it (with my GP who had trained in it), it’s been about 7 years now and I haven’t suffered it again.
i realise this probably comes to late to resolve yours in time for your holiday but it is worth looking into.

Acupuncture and deep tissue massage. The muscles in your calve gets tighter with PF and its a vicious circle.
Hanging of the stairs to lengthen muscle or a resistance band to stretch it out.