inflammation of the plantar facia, the soft connective tissue encapsulating the muscles on the sole of the foot. pain is most commonly at the inside front of the heel.
Average recovery time: 122 days
| who | duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ken | 6 days | rest/ice/ibuprofen/stretching | details |
| NeoteriX | 6 days | Stayed off my feet for a few days. Religious stretching of arch and calves. Also iced frequently with a frozen bottle. Also used a "Strassburg Sock" during sleep to help keep arch stretched overnight. Being on summer break, able to stay off my feet helped a lot. | details |
| ken | 7 days | aggravated by skate skiing. stopped that. | details |
| jfromme | 10 days | ice, warmth alternate. | details |
| bradc | 13 days | Rest, rest, no impact, rest, ice, rest... | details |
| dabond | 14 days | Stretching and exercise seemed to help. Still not completely healed | details |
| tom-o | 15 days | Iced, got inserts, stretched. Had some calf pain too. Cause? Shoe switch? (Asics 2130). | details |
| dcady | 17 days | Seems to have gone away to the extent that if I hadn't had it what little sensation I feel would seem normal. Note: I have realized in retrospect that this was definitely a flare-up of PF. I don't know why I didn't realize it at the time. | details |
| phiggins | 22 days | change shoes!! | details |
| Hammer | 30 days | Resolution - keep doing the things that Charm and Barbie told me to do. | details |
| Samantha | 37 days | The heal pain has gone away. Despite not running for 5 weeks, the arch pain still persists. But we're going to pretend it's normal. | details |
| AliC | 49 days | Wow. Well, don't really feel like I know what the problem initially was. A nerve problem at the end, maybe also in the beginning, who knows. Had 3 physio visits. Not a stress fracture or anything, I guess. Bit of a mystery. | details |
| ken | 50 days | a break from ball-of-foot landing strides seems to have helped this quite a bit. | details |
| Inprin | 53 days | New inserts and better stretching have helped. Only now after neqrly 2 months can I get out of bed and walk without having to stretch first. Two weeks of rest at the start was very important. Must really watch traing to make sure it does not get reinjured. | details |
| div | 64 days | Final recovery was result of taking Glukozamide (/???) pills, 2x2 per day. Last time my body didnt accepted this treatment and disagreed which resulted in sever pains in liver and back. | details |
| inuksuk | 66 days | Orthotics, constant massage (stones under my desk at work) alternative training (i.e., mtn biking, cycling), and avoid too much flat hard surfaces -- the more uneven, it seems, the better. | details |
| ken | 69 days | details | |
| simkiss | 73 days | Time cured it. Lose some weight and get some new shoes! | details |
| Tom_O | 83 days | One month course of anti-inflammatories (Naproxen) probably hastened the recovery but I think rest and stretching helped most. Did the plantar fascia stretch (bending toes forward) before getting out of bed each morning. | details |
| ken | 83 days | details | |
| Highlander | 85 days | Stretching seems to help the most | details |
| leper | 94 days | Stopped running completely. It's the only way this is going to stop being a problem, I'll try again in 18 months :( | details |
| jfromme | 125 days | time. stretching. ice. time. | details |
| inuksuk | 173 days | new orthotics helped... | details |
| MAC | 183 days | Looks like being too busy with work and no time to run has helped heal. this I have also put sole custom footbeds in my running shoes and its helped alot. felt like too much arch support at first but then i didnt notice it after running a while. | details |
| inuksuk | 216 days | Mainly time. New Shoes, stretching in bed before I got up, taping, and golf ball massage also helped. Also important: cursing - lots of cursing. | details |
| O Steve! | 217 days | dont run stairs on a cruise ship 4 days in a row when you are not used to it....the cordosone shot knocked it out.....made the diggest difference....nice to be able to run without a nagging injury for the first time in years... | details |
| ken | 226 days | bad shoes, hard surfaces. soft ground and stretching helped in the end, I think | details |
| bshields | 267 days | What I think caused it - new shoes that didn't fit right. At first it seemed like running was a bad idea. After not running much in the fall, I decided to start up again, with a lot of cross-training, particularly elliptical. Recently, it seems that stretching before and after every run has helped a lot, and also running regularly keeps it loose. | details |
| randy | 298 days | 08/28/07 Ended up with bi-lateral PF and R patello-femoral pain syndrome (runner's knee) when it was all said and done. All linger slightly, but I am marking it as recovered. Best things for PF, in my experience -- superfeet orthotics (custom and other OTC did not help) strassburg sock during acute phase, but leg numbness made this untenable in the long run active release therapy from a "sports chiropractor" (self-administered after observing technique) scrunching towels or mar... | details |
| Anna | 300 days | details | |
| Alibongo | 519 days | details | |
| Suzanne | 559 days | I'm playing beach ultimate and wearing heals sometimes. Let's call it healed. But not forgotten. Consider this a major resolution to continue taping, stretching, sleeping with "the foot," and massaging. | details |
| Fapos | 27+ days | details | |
| constancekim | 70+ days | details | |
| jimyqcc | 165+ days | details | |
| Stolle | 167+ days | details | |
| mcourtin | 194+ days | details | |
| hhead | 378+ days | details | |
| darryn | 434+ days | details | |
| Jonny | 447+ days | details | |
| Alibongo | 561+ days | details | |
| carlw | 670+ days | details |