Can you imagine a life without foot or heel pain, loving the run?

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“If there were a better approach out there we wouldn’t be wasting your time and ours writing this!” by FitOldDog and Rebecca

The goal of this collaboration between Old Dogs in Training LLC and Evolving Therapies, is to enhance people’s lives through improved mind and body awareness, which we apply to dance (Rebecca) and Ironman training (FitOldDog) every day. Happy Trails!

This is a proven five-step approach to curing and then eliminating running-induced plantar fasciitis and heel pain, but you have to make it work for you with our guidance.

There is no single over-the-counter treatment that will necessarily cure your plantar fasciitis, whatever the fancy advertisements say. Your foot pain may be a consequence of the way you run, a genetic weakness of tendons in your feet (FitOldDog’s case), the shoes you wear, or over-training. Our approach to solving this riddle is based on personal experience and extensive studies of body awareness.

I (FitOldDog) fixed my running-induced plantar fasciitis several years ago, and went on to survive an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and the subsequent aortic surgery, to return to Ironman training and get my life back on track. Here I am in Lake Placid, 2011, at the age of 68, first in the world to finish an Ironman (very carefully) with an AAA stent graft.

You can’t complete Ironman races with Plantar Fasciitis, that’s for sure:

We hear horror stories about plantar fasciitis all the time, so you need to fix it or your fascia can actually tear. If you search the web you will find boots or socks that pull on your calf (not much use if the problem starts in your hips, and they ignore the dynamic nature of fascia, in addition to being uncomfortable has hell - I (FitOldDog) tried them, to no avail), heel cushions (I fail to understand the logic of this approach), orthotics to support your arches (it can be a good idea to wear such supports, as you work to strengthen your arches, because they take a load off of the plantar fascia, but it is not a solution, it’s a temporary crutch), deep tissue massage (myofascial massage is part of our treatment plan, but it is self-applied or the treatments would become prohibitively expensive), a range stretches (stretching is valuable, but how do you know you are stretching the right thing? we help with that in our body awareness work), and then of course there are medical approaches, including injections of cortisone (I wouldn’t go there, personally). There is an interesting book on the topic, which was reviewed on my blog recently, and I reviewed it positively as a good place to start, but no more, and the ‘scraping technique’ proposed we certainly do not recommend for something as delicate as fascia.

Our method takes you through a process of working out why it is happening to you (and this can take a while, requiring improved body awareness on your part). Part of the process includes the use of rollers, and there is an article about this on the FitOldDog blog, entitled, “I fixed my plantar fasciitis with a Trigger Point Performance Therapy Roller (sigh of relief!).“ This is where our method started. It was clear that myofascial massage, discussed in another recent blog post about an article on plantar fasciitis in the New York Times, is one key component to our method, but it is only part of the story. You need to follow our five step method if you want to find the cause, cure the pain, and keep this affliction away (which will require continued vigilance on your part, in the form of heightened body awareness).

We wish you all the best, whether you try our product or not, as this is a terrible condition.

Sincerely,

Kevin Morgan aka FitOldDog (Veterinarian, Research Pathologist, Ironman Distance Triathlete, and Avid Student Of Body Movement Optimization, through training in Feldenkrais, Continuum, Gyrokinesis, Yoga, Pilates, and whatever works to keep me training).

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Rebecca Amis Lawson (Dance and Continuum teacher, and Body Movement Specialist).

Important Note: These posts do not provide medical advice. You should always consult your physician before undertaking or significantly modifying an exercise program.

Copyright © 2010 Kevin T. Morgan aka FitOldDog, Old Dogs in Training, LLC.