Heel pain and Plantar fasciitis
Have you ever had a bad case of heel pain? You know the kind that will knock your socks off in the mornings just when you take a few steps to go to the bathroom. After you make it there the pain seems to subside gradually.
There are a multitude of way to treat that syndrome…commonly called plain old heel pain and medically referred to as Plantar fasciitis or bone spurs. The bone spurs are not found in everyone that has these symptoms and it is rarely a surgical problem.
Here is a way to try to decrease the symptoms on your own…heat? Sure if you want to…Ice? Why not? But how about something very different? No side effects…except maybe a relationship if you are dating/living with/married to someone not so understanding. We don’t make judgments.
How about a very old school…ancient school..medieval school technique?
Simply wear either cowboy boots or high top tennis shoes to bed at night.
Don’t laugh. It’ll work with at least half of you! When you go to sleep your foot relaxes. The toes essentially will go lower than your heels. This puts the bottom of your foot on “slack”. You get up several hours later to go to the bathroom…step on the floor and can’t move…paralyzed by heel pain!
Using the boots or shoes on your toes simply won’t go as low.
So there you have it…a very low tech and “old school” way of treatment. Not everything is complicated! Of course I am a big believer that if the plan isn’t working you change the plan. So try this. If this plan doesn’t work there are a lot more out there. The key is finding the right one for you!
The following link has a little more information, http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/foot_facts/a/foot2.htm . Bigger words are included whether you like them or not and also a little bit of the way I do it and have since 1990…yeah still old school…and this site was updated this year. It just seems that everything effective always comes back around!
