The Quick Backstory
As part of my own condition and wellness program, I’ve been walking 30 to 35 miles per week now for about five months, typically walking six of seven days per week and enjoying my time on the trails immensely.
About three weeks ago, pushing through a new facet of my resistance training, I tweaked my left sacroiliac joint and began to experience what typically was a nuisance mechanical lower back and left posterior pelvic pain about 25-30 minutes into a ninety minute walk.
Determined to push on through, I kept up my routine (minus the newer resistance component), monitoring my discomfort, without much difficulty. At one time I questioned whether or not I was having to adjust my gait significantly; I didn’t think so…
That all changed about ten days ago, when I seemingly woke up “out of the blue” with a fairly impactful left plantar fasciitis, which worsened impressively with that morning’s walk.
Those symptoms have sent me scrambling to review the current thinking in management of plantar fasciitis, which I’ve been implementing with reasonable success over the past ten days. My plantar fasciitis episode has clearly been multifactorial in origin (the gait pattern change above, shoes at the end of their functional life, slacking off on calf/leg/hip stretching over the past couple of months, and potentially even some terrain and trail changes altering foot stresses).
I don’t have time to delve into plantar fasciitis comprehensively here this week, though I thought it might be useful to post a few useful videos and references now, and we’ll come back and deal with PF in more detail at a later time.
A Few Very Useful Plantar Fasciitis Links and Vids
How to Treat Your Plantar Fasciitis Naturally – Dr. Phil Maffetone and team; very well done, downloadable PDF
Plantar Fasciitis – Fix Your Feet! from the StrategicAthlete, good vids included
How to Cure Plantar Fasciitis – October 18 post on Mark’s Daily Apple
2 Stretches to Heal Plantar Fasciitis – video by Brad Kearns; note his explanation re: bent vs straight knee is reversed, but otherwise well done and core essential stretching
Plantar Fasciitis from MobilityWOD/Kelly Starrett; very well done…
More to come; don’t waste another day if you’re suffering from PF and haven’t made any progress in your rehab and recovery.
