A very common issue with Plantar Fasciitis is acute pain when first standing up from bed in the morning and take your first few steps. This issue can repeat its self every time you have been sitting for some time either working or resting and is not only painful, but, frustrating.
Importantly when you have plantar fasciitis even for a short time it modifies what you do and how you move. The pain forces you to compensate and adapt simple movements, so every time you stand it hurts unless you change what you do.
The first question to ask is why does it hurt so much when I stand up particularly first thing?
Well your body is always healing and regenerating tissue 24 hours a day, so the fascia overnight is starting to heal and repair as its not loaded and at rest. Most of growth and repair is done when you are asleep. In this case your foot tends to point down, away from 90 degrees when resting in bed unloaded in a relaxed state. The fascia is starting to heal while you are asleep with your foot position in a relaxed state, so when you stand your foot is at 90 degrees, and it damages what has been repaired overnight, creating a cyclic long term issue.
As solution to change this, is a pre stand routine in the morning something like detailed in the video will help.
A system to help is in my Plantar Fasciitis Rehabilitation Programme CLICK HERE
The second question after standing is walking pain. All of the people I have treated recently needed some manipulation of their walking movement. This was due in the first instance to pain and discomfort from plantar fasciitis, footwear and insoles. I have a goal for people to be able to walk bare foot pain free! People have said I cannot walk without certain shoes or insoles. Well you used too? Our feet are designed to walk on soft earth not concreate hard surfaces, that’s why we have shoes. Its also a good marker for pain and feedback and gives a focus for doing movements at home.
I focus on getting you to walk more as you were designed to rather than how you walk.
“The difference is nobody learnt to walk, we just learnt how not to fall over”! As toddlers it's all about balance, when we start we focus on standing, then with steps we are unbalanced and recover. When we get it, we can stand, then walk all done, lessons and help over. To progress to running, its the same system just faster.
I work on foot alignment, pacing steps, heel strike, drive from toes and lots more to improve your walking. This also improves your ankle movement and how you use your foot so it can help support your fascia by getting the muscles to work in the right sequence and strengthen them.
The Video looks at your gait cycle and how you can change movements to help plantar fasciitis
A system to help is in my Plantar Fasciitis Rehabilitation Programme CLICK HERE
The results are a culmination of lots of reviewing progress and adapting treatments, some experimentation with footwear and movements along with some amazing clients.
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