I'm now more aware of the foot body health connection. Why? Because of eight years of research on so-called plantar fasciitis, recent experiences with peripheral vascular disease (PAD), and how my feet tend to ache more as I age. I am in my mid-70s, so no complaints! Want to feel great? Try a reflexology massage, it's amazing. For more info and source of image go to this link. I guess it was a reflexology ... Read more
Just watching how you turn as you walk will teach you a great deal about the role of your hips in body movement, and how to focus there for solutions to certain aches and pains, including so-called plantar fasciitis, and so-called iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS). https://youtu.be/AfyMB--Bcpk Yep, those danged hip rotators, all twelve of them (and most certainly more), cause all sorts of mayhem, so keep them ... Read more
To keep your body moving as you age it pays to be aware of what you are doing. For instance, steering your body is in many ways similar to steering a car and the metaphor is instructive. Excerpt From: The True Story of Plantar Fasciitis: And Why Heel Injections Should Be Banned, Kindle Edition. There are interesting parallels between the way cars and your body function. They are both machines that do stuff, which ... Read more
In my humble opinion, both the condition doctors and podiatrists call plantar fasciitis and I call nociceptive foot pain (NFP), and the pain in the knee that sports physicians call iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS) and I call nociceptive lateral knee pain (NLKP), are states of nociceptive or warning pain, and these problems do not lie in the location of their respective pains. The best approach is presented in ... Read more
Medical Industry? These are the people who save my life, that I am doing battle with, today! The medical industry is essentially a business in the USA. I'm afraid to let you know this, but doctors don't know everything. They know a lot, but not everything. They sure don't seem to understand acute morning heel pain, and they can't tell you how to live with aortic disease, either. That's your call, my aortic ... Read more
Speedplay Hips For Better Foot Float A 'So-Called Plantar Fasciitis' Insight? Believe it or not, this crudely made, old video has had over 15,000 hits! Those eight years of research on so-called plantar fasciitis drew my attention to the role of hip muscles in freedom of rotation of our feet. During today's 5k road race, I had an epiphany. It's just like those Speedplay pedals. It's all about float, or freedom ... Read more
Plantar Disease Progression? Why do we have cats? Disease A condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms : sickness, malady. infectious diseases. – Miriam-Webster Online Dictionary When Tom’s cat, Cat, scratched his hand, he didn’t have a disease. He had a painful inconvenience. When ... Read more
Please note: If you strongly disagree with me, would you kindly (a) refute each of my five 'arguments' on the basis of data and logic, and (b) explain the following graph. If you consider these data to be insufficient for interpretation, please direct my readers and me to a better data set. Calling my work junk science (a scientist), based on BS (a podiatrist) or garbage (another podiatrist), does not qualify as ... Read more
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