Plantar Fasciitis Steroid Injection

[PennDude]

I battled PF for a while until I had my wife treat my foot with ultrasound. She's a physical therapist. The ultrasound solved the problem and I haven't had any problems since treatment. Nothing else I'd tried had worked but that ultrasound treatment sure as heck did.

 

[ChrisAU]

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks for the diclofenac gel recs, hadn't seen that until I found this thread. Been battling it with my left foot for a few weeks, very frustrating. Will be requesting the gel at my doc soon.

 

[Poser]

I struggled with it for a number of years, getting past it entirely about 10 years ago. If you’re the type of person who will take things head on, including pain and discomfort, you can strengthen your feet up to the level that you need to do what you wish to do without pain, however, you need to do the opposite of what everyone tells you and spend a lot of time barefooted and wearing shoes with minimal support. I haven’t even thought about PF in a good while, but I also started strength training again since I had it and there may also be something to your foot having to support the weight of heavy squats and deadlifts that would play into that.

I took a similar approach to golfers elbow a few years back and used the pin firing technique involving chin up rehab. It was quite painful but worked. You need your body to create a systematic response to a localized problem. Some doctors will help you with this by dry needling the target area, but those doctors are few and far between. The question is, do you want to 100% recover from the injury or just manage the pain? Orthopedics and what not are band aids. As a Backcountry hunter who puts miles on your feet with weight on your back, I’d expect that full recovery is the only viable option.

 

[CDK]

Ask your doctor about a ten-x procedure. It’s basically a hollow needle that they remove scar tissue with and you regrow healthy tissue. I partially tore my pf and it worked wonders for me.


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[Mike 338]

Steroid injections are great... for just a little while. Then it hurts again. Turns out a little liquid pain killer didn't fix the spike inside of my foot.

 

[Mike 338]

I struggled with it for a number of years, getting past it entirely about 10 years ago. If you’re the type of person who will take things head on, including pain and discomfort, you can strengthen your feet up to the level that you need to do what you wish to do without pain, however, you need to do the opposite of what everyone tells you and spend a lot of time barefooted and wearing shoes with minimal support. I haven’t even thought about PF in a good while, but I also started strength training again since I had it and there may also be something to your foot having to support the weight of heavy squats and deadlifts that would play into that.

I took a similar approach to golfers elbow a few years back and used the pin firing technique involving chin up rehab. It was quite painful but worked. You need your body to create a systematic response to a localized problem. Some doctors will help you with this by dry needling the target area, but those doctors are few and far between. The question is, do you want to 100% recover from the injury or just manage the pain? Orthopedics and what not are band aids. As a Backcountry hunter who puts miles on your feet with weight on your back, I’d expect that full recovery is the only viable option.

Wish I had heard about that some years ago. Sounds interesting and frankly, what have you got to lose.

 

[buck_shot11]

PF is an issue that derives from your calves. The calf develops knots in it and won't allow the Plantar tendon to relax and causes the pain in your foot. While rolling a ball will help it feel a little better, you need relief in your calf.

You should either see a sports physical therapist or sports chiro that offers dry needling. Once they needle the knots, you'll should stretch all of that out. It make take a couple of visits but that should fix you.

What you have to remember is the muscles in your feet are connected to the calves and the calves connect to the hamstrings and your hamstrings to glutes.... The legs, hamstrings and glutes, tie everything together. As they get tight, they create problems in lower legs and lower back.

The point of all of this is STRETCH and stretch often.

 

[blackdawg]

PF is an issue that derives from your calves. The calf develops knots in it and won't allow the Plantar tendon to relax and causes the pain in your foot. While rolling a ball will help it feel a little better, you need relief in your calf.

You should either see a sports physical therapist or sports chiro that offers dry needling. Once they needle the knots, you'll should stretch all of that out. It make take a couple of visits but that should fix you.

What you have to remember is the muscles in your feet are connected to the calves and the calves connect to the hamstrings and your hamstrings to glutes.... The legs, hamstrings and glutes, tie everything together. As they get tight, they create problems in lower legs and lower back.

The point of all of this is STRETCH and stretch often.

I am betting on this, I need some relief soon!


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[buck_shot11]

I am betting on this, I need some relief soon!


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As a marathon runner myself, I have fought PF hard in the past. Now that I have a firm grip on the cause, I am able to avoid any flareups. The key is stretching.

 

[30338]

I had it bad a year ago. Nothing worked till I put a rolling pin, kitchen type, on a rug. Then while sitting in a chair, I grabbed my ankle with both hands and forced my foot/heel down on the pin. Rolled it back and forth over the pin. It felt like the pin was rolling over gravel and the pain was pretty intense. Took two weeks of that and icing it in a bucket of ice water but got rid of it.

Ran a few half marathons and lifetime athlete, that was my first rodeo with it. Hope it is the last. Killed my conditioning program for months.

 

[ROJO23]

i recently had foot and ankle surgery. During my PT I used I calf stretcher. it worked really good, so I bought one for home. My wife has had issues with PF a couple of time. We both have been using it twice a day, and said it has make a huge difference. pretty cheap investment, and seems to work pretty good.

I had a torn tendon in my foot, and I got 2 injections. They both were very helpful. I got one about 2 weeks before I went to CO in October and it worked for about 3 weeks, then I had my surgery.

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[ChrisAU]

Sitrep, a week of tart cherry extract pills and 4 days of diclofenac gel I am a new man. Started back walking to work yesterday. Huge relief. Still gonna take it easy for a few week.

 

[ethan]

I e had it in both feet and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone! At the recommendation of my dr I did put get the injection. He explained to me that the injection doesn’t fix anything, only masks the pain. I did use the power step insoles, and did ultra sound therapy. Apparently the tear in the tendon develops a fluid around it and the longer it goes the harder the viscosity becomes and the harder it is to get rid of. The u.s. therapy breaks the fluid down and allows the tear to heal, Not a dr so I’m probably doing a terrible job explaining this. He also told me I couldn’t stretch to much. If I thought about stretching 30 times a day do it 30 times a day. Keep a golf ball in the freezer and at night use it to roll the area out as much as you can. Stretch your calves by putting your toes against a wall or by putting your toes on the edge of a step like you’re doing calf raises. Hope this helps.

 

[Billinsd]

I found that the longer I had it, the longer and harder it was to get ride of. What finally worked for me was stretching by pulling my toes back while simultaneously massaging in Volterene gel. And when it's come back once every year or so, I do the stretch and gel immediately and it goes away. You want to solve the problem as quickly as you can, because it gets worse and harder to cure with time.

 

[Scrappy]

I had the hardest time with understanding what everyone was saying about stretching. When it finally clicked for me I got rid of it in both legs. PLEASE LISTEN WHEN PEOPLE TELL YOU TO Stretch. Yoga type stretches works for me. It's a 25 minute routine I do two to three times a week. You cant get rid of it by just stretching your calves or feet or any other single part of your legs. From lower back down has to be stretched regularly.

 

[isu22andy]

I found that the longer I had it, the longer and harder it was to get ride of. What finally worked for me was stretching by pulling my toes back while simultaneously massaging in Volterene gel. And when it's come back once every year or so, I do the stretch and gel immediately and it goes away. You want to solve the problem as quickly as you can, because it gets worse and harder to cure with time.

Strange, Ive been running the last 4 or so weeks and been battling this . Being new at it , I bought ASICS shoes thinking that would fix it , and it did help but right now my foot has been aching , stretched it by trying to touch my toes, feels quite a bit better already.

 

[Tod osier]

Strange, Ive been running the last 4 or so weeks and been battling this . Being new at it , I bought ASICS shoes thinking that would fix it , and it did help but right now my foot has been aching , stretched it by trying to touch my toes, feels quite a bit better already.

Stretching is really magic for me, couple minutes couple times a day for a couple days and it is a non issue. Wish I’d known it the times I was all crippled up. I missed some good stuff crippled up.

 

[ChrisAU]

Well just wanted to report that I am deflated, depressed, aggravated...mine has never completely gone away. And last night had a doubleheader of church league softball...I played catcher and RF. Not running intensive positions. Last night I had trouble going to sleep because every time my heartbeat the surge of pain in my foot took my breath away. I've been to a specialist 4 times. I've tried every over the counter and witch magic cure I can find. Doc has wanted to put it in a cast for 4 weeks. I'm about to cave. I guess I'd rather deal with a weak left leg in October than a debilitatingly painful foot keeping me from enjoying the hunt. Ugh...

 

[Brock A]

I found success with some CBD cream with THC (no, it doesn't get you high). My left foot was a real issue for about 10 months. I have been doing to CBD cream each night before bed. Its nearly gone.

 

[blackdawg]

I am having severe plantar problems and would break down and try that Cbd,,, tried lots of things and they are not working,,, what do you buy, they have stores selling it all around here but don’t know anything about that kind of stuff ,, is it in a tube? Vial?


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