Time matters for your plantar fasciitis.

How long have you been suffering with Plantar fasciitis?

Plantar fasciitis is a common condition affecting many thousands of people every day. There are many treatments recommended for it and many routes to recovery…. Some more effective than others. A key to making sure your heel pain recovers as quickly as it can, is to make sure your pain is actually plantar fasciitis. There are over 40 different types of heel pain, so if your heel pain is not responding to inital treatment, it’s worth checking out if you actually have plantar fasciitis at all. But we cover that elsewhere. 

The next key to resolving your plantar fasciitis is in how long you’ve had it. The longer you have been suffering heel pain, the more difficult it becomes for the injured fascia to recover.  On average your plantar fasciitis should take between 6 and 8 weeks to recover from injury. In this acute plantar fasciitis phase, your body is actively trying to heal and simple things like stretching your calfs and rolling something under the arch of your foot can be helpful while your body does that hard work of healing you. 

If your plantar fasciitis is more than 10 weeks old, then it’s becoming chronic. This means that your body may no longer be able to give your plantar fascia all the resources it needs to heal. Your body has put the job of healing your plantar fasciitis on the ‘back burner’ if you will. If you have been putting up with your plantar fasciitis for a long time, you may have to take advice on how to reinvigorate your healing process. This might include electro therapy treatment such as near-infrared light therapy (Photizo - photobiomodulation), or physical therapy such as acupuncture. These therapies, among others, work to increase your body’s natural healing responses for soft tissues like your plantar fascia.

If your chronic plantar fasciitis doesn’t respond to efforts to accelerate your healing responses, or you have plantar fasciitis that just keeps coming back, then there is almost certainly a biomechanical root cause. Something in the way your body moves puts more stress on your plantar fascia than your body’s healing responses can manage. Here you will need a comprehensive assessment of your Biomechanics from your hips to your toes so you can discover what is causing your plantar fasciitis and find the solution to your pain. 

If this sounds like you please book an appointment so we can get to the bottom of your plantar fasciitis pain. 

Check out some of our other resources on plantar fasciitis below:

If you are keeping active while suffering plantar fasciitis check out this taping technique to help.

If you are interested in renting a Photizo hand held light therapy device to help speed up the healing rate of your plantar fasciitis give us a call on 01606 327999

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