Plantar fasciitis

Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of plantar heel pain.

Plantar comes from the Latin planta, meaning soul.

So, plantar heel pain means pain in the heel of the foot.

The plantar fascia is a band of connective tissue that runs along the bottom of the foot, connecting our toes to our heel bone.

It supports the arch of the foot by working like a shock-absorbing bowstring.

Plantar fasciitis affects about 1% of adults every year, accounting for more than a million doctor visits annually in the United States.

It's especially prevalent in athletes, particularly runners.

Though the primary cause of plantar fasciitis is unknown, it's commonly considered to be the result of an overuse injury at the insertion point at the heel, which can lead to a knife-like pain with every step.

So it was really fun to get people involved and come try it out with me.

Where would you put this in terms of is it a need? Like if somebody has some – plantar fasciitis or tennis elbow they're working through.

Those things can take several months to get back to 100%.

So is this something that you have to have to get someone better or is it just a nice additional layer to more of the foundational things?

So it helps with tissue healing.

Um, Um, the people that I worked with, this is a small sample.

It was just a couple of plantar fasciitis patients that I saw recently.

They, they had more of that chronic, uh, longer than three months ongoing pain.

We'll keep it in college football, but a little bit more local here with Arkansas.

The initial starting center, Caden Kittler, we didn't exactly know what the injuries were, but then he told us last week on Morning Mayhem here on The Buzz that not only is he dealing with a broken toe, that he's dealing with plantar fasciitis for weeks.

I mean, this is, a broken toe is one thing, and sometimes when it's plantar fasciitis, that's what you think has happened, that you've broken a toe, but it's those two things together.

I've had plantar fasciitis before, Doc.

That is incredibly painful, and that's without playing football on the offensive line.

Yeah, so it probably was that the broken toe caused the plantar fasciitis to occur, and that he probably was in a boot.

They then shifted and put him in like a stiff sole shoe so his toes don't bend to allow to protect the toe.

And then that let his Achilles tendon and plantar fasciitis flare up.

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And I'm Dr. Jeannette Loram, biologist and movement teacher.

Today we are talking about plantar fasciitis.

So here's three questions that we want to talk about today.

One, how can something... happening to such a small area of your body? Take your whole body down.

Before we get to those nitty gritty of those questions, we should talk about the aging foot in general.

Okay.

Because foot issues, plantar fasciitis, for instance, typically occurs between 40 and 60.

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So your feet can influence how your knees feel, how your hips feel, how your lower back feels.

I've noticed a huge influx of my patients coming in with plantar fasciitis or telling me that they feel like their feet have gotten wider, their arches are a little bit more tender.

I do not recommend gel pedicures.

The problem becomes if we're in enclosed shoes and our feet sweat.

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Today, board-certified podiatrist and leading shoe expert for foot health and longevity, Dr. Sailee Tulpuleh, joins me to talk all things feet.

Why is plantar fasciitis so common? What should a good shoe actually do? Are heels really that bad? What changes during menopause? Do kids even need orthotics? And what seemingly innocent pedicure habit could put you at risk for infection? Because by the time your feet hurt, the problem probably started long before the pain did.

Thank you so much, Dr. Tuopule, for being on today.

They move things around.

They fix the plantar fasciitis.

And as it heals, now she's at work at a TV station.

She's working on a cane.