Thanks for all your support, Jimmy.
I will do a little experiment, but first my history, although you may be bored with it by now.
I have had PF three times. The first time I had it I was wearing Asics Kayanos. I stretched and wore my night splint, and it went away two months later. Then the next time I got it, I was wearing the same Asics, but I had started to go barefoot more and more, choosing to carry the shoes at the ends of my runs and finishing barefoot. I stretched and wore my night splint, but this time, I decided to ditch the shoes completely and go barefoot. The PF was gone within a month. I was happy about this. It seemed my being barefoot helped, perhaps, lessen the amount of time it took to rehab.
Then the last time I had PF, I got it indirectly from wearing shoes (MN), I stretched and wore my night splint and began rolling with a small, blue ice-football with knobby thingies. Every time I stretched I had to stop before I finished the "routine" that had worked the previous two times because the pain was so great, the blue football felt like a torture device, and I would wake up in the middle of the night having to rip the night splint off my leg because my PF was on fire. I attempted this routine about three times before I gave up swearing I will never stretch an injury again.
I have been dealing with this last bout of PF on and off (mostly on) for three years now, I think because subconsciously, I am favoring putting weight on the back of my feet instead of the forefeet where the MN was and is now redeveloping.
So this will be my experiment. I will (shiver) return to my old routine that worked two times and failed me once to try again, and after about two weeks, I will report back. Deal?
Here's the stuff I was using for PF in the past. Tell me what you think of it or if there are better models or if they are basically all the same. Mind you, I have it in both feet now, whereas the first two times it was only in my right foot.
(And sorry to hijack your thread Matt, but I figure this would help you too.)
This is the Step Stretch designed for treating PF. I am sure you are familiar with it.
Blue football ice thingy.
Night splint--which kind is better?
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I will do a little experiment, but first my history, although you may be bored with it by now.
I have had PF three times. The first time I had it I was wearing Asics Kayanos. I stretched and wore my night splint, and it went away two months later. Then the next time I got it, I was wearing the same Asics, but I had started to go barefoot more and more, choosing to carry the shoes at the ends of my runs and finishing barefoot. I stretched and wore my night splint, but this time, I decided to ditch the shoes completely and go barefoot. The PF was gone within a month. I was happy about this. It seemed my being barefoot helped, perhaps, lessen the amount of time it took to rehab.
Then the last time I had PF, I got it indirectly from wearing shoes (MN), I stretched and wore my night splint and began rolling with a small, blue ice-football with knobby thingies. Every time I stretched I had to stop before I finished the "routine" that had worked the previous two times because the pain was so great, the blue football felt like a torture device, and I would wake up in the middle of the night having to rip the night splint off my leg because my PF was on fire. I attempted this routine about three times before I gave up swearing I will never stretch an injury again.
I have been dealing with this last bout of PF on and off (mostly on) for three years now, I think because subconsciously, I am favoring putting weight on the back of my feet instead of the forefeet where the MN was and is now redeveloping.
So this will be my experiment. I will (shiver) return to my old routine that worked two times and failed me once to try again, and after about two weeks, I will report back. Deal?
Here's the stuff I was using for PF in the past. Tell me what you think of it or if there are better models or if they are basically all the same. Mind you, I have it in both feet now, whereas the first two times it was only in my right foot.
(And sorry to hijack your thread Matt, but I figure this would help you too.)
This is the Step Stretch designed for treating PF. I am sure you are familiar with it.
Blue football ice thingy.
Night splint--which kind is better?