Eliminate Plantar Fasciitis Pain
The Soulce of the problem...

Do you have Plantar Fasciitis?

Got foot pain? Hurts when you get out of bed in the morning?

Hurts when you are on your feet a lot or doing an activity like running?

Do you know that it's a form of Tendonitis?

Understand the Plantar Fasciitis dynamic and you understand how to heal fully, or at least manage your ‘injury’ and keep yourself pain free and as healthy as possible.

Plantar Fascitis is not just an injury, it is a sign of an ‘unhealthy’ ecology in your foot.

Don’t worry though, it’s easy to get healthy again, and pain free.

What is Plantar Fasciitis?

Look around on other websites. That's pretty much the extent of the definition that you will find.

There's much more to it than that.

Important things to know about this kind of foot pain:

* Plantar Fascitis doesn't get better on it's own.

* The usual recommended methods won't heal the damage like you think they should.

* Plantar Fascitis is preventable, manageable, and fixable if you have the RIGHT information.

First, let's give you the complete picture of Plantar Fasciitis so you understand what is going on.

Then, I'll tell you what you need to know to make the pain go away, and keep it away.

What is Plantar Fasciitis, really?

I know that that sounds highly technical and medical.....but that's the most useful definition that you will ever find.

'Heel pain from inflammation' doesn't help you at all. You already know it hurts.

Do you want to know why it hurts?

Imagine a sponge, like the one you wash dishes with. Imagine a dry, hard sponge.

What happens when you squeeze a dry, hard sponge?

The dry brittle fibers crackle and break.

You can't really see any damage, but little tiny fibers are getting damaged every time you exert force on the sponge.

That's what's happening in your foot.

Little tiny rips and tears in your tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue.

Farther down the page I'll describe the whole process, but for now know that rips and tears turn into a tightened structure, kind of like a half squeezed sponge.

What happens with a half squeezed sponge? Old stuff gets stuck in, and old stuff has a hard time getting out.

Waste product and other Irritant gets trapped in your tissue.

Why that small pain got worse.

1. Something like %75 of Americans are chronically dehydrated.

So it's entirely likely that your sponge doesn't have enough water in it in the first place.

2. You don't eat enough protein.

You know that statistic that we lose a pound of muscle mass every year after the age of 35? That is almost entirely because we don't eat enough protein.

If you aren't eating enough protein, you don't have the building blocks necessary to appropriately heal all the little wear and tear injuries your body regularly sustains.

3. The Pain Causing Dynamic.

Tightness creates injury which creates more tightness which creates lack of circulation with creates injury which creates more tightness.....

4. Process of Inflammation.

Injury causes a process of inflammation, which makes you hurt more, which makes the nervous system make your tissue more tight, which traps that inflammation, which makes things more tight and adds to the Pain Causing Dynamic.

And #5, the main reason for the onset of Plantar Fasciitis...

Getting out of bed in the morning.

Getting out of bed in the morning is the primary cause of foot pain.

Every morning you wake up, and jump out of bed onto the dry, brittle sponges of your feet.

Why?

When you wake up in the morning, you are metabolically at your 'coldest'.

This means that your tissue 'hasn't warmed up yet'.

Your foot is an arch, with millions of little connections that move and resist pressure when you put your weight onto the arch.

Over time, being chronically dehydrated, not eating enough protein, with Inflammation and the Pain Causing Dynamic that is always entrenching itself in your body, the connective tissue on the underside of you foot, specifically the Plantar Fascia, starts turning into a dry, crunchy sponge.

So every time you jump out of bed onto your cold, crunchy feet, you get some rip and tear.

That’s why those first several steps hurt. Injury, injury, injury.

If you’ll remember, before you had foot pain, you had foot discomfort.

Over time and daily micro-injury from getting out of bed, that discomfort turned to foot pain because you kept injuring yourself, and the Inflammation process from that damage built up more and more.

Then What Happens?

Most people exercise less, even move less, because their feet hurt. This makes the situation worse, plus most people gain weight as time goes by, putting more load on the dry, brittle structure of the foot.

This is stereotypical of the Tendonitis dynamic: Ache and pain that gets ignored for months and years, the injury gets worse little by little, then one day it shows up as a real problem.

Even when Plantar Fasciitis looks to be caused by a one-time event like a long run, or jumping, the dynamic has actually been getting worse and worse, under the radar, until that one-time event took it over the edge.

Why do the first few steps hurt and then the pain goes away?

It absorbs the water, and gets soft, squishy, and....spongy.When a sponge is wet, you just about can’t damage it.

It certainly isn’t brittle.

The same is true with your feet when you get up in the morning.

The first few steps cause little rips and tears, and jump starts the already present inflammation response.

As you keep walking around, blood pumps in, the tissue metabolically warms up, and your foot becomes soft and squishy.

Plantar Fasciitis Symptoms

• Foot pain that shows up for the first steps when getting out of bed in the morning, then goes away

• When standing up from a seated/resting position

• Foot pain that doesn’t go away after the first few steps.

• Foot pain when climbing stairs or when standing on tiptoe

• Foot pain when standing for long periods

• Foot pain after, and sometimes during exercise

• Inflammation/swelling in your heel

The most important concept to get here is that if you have foot pain in the morning that goes away after walking around for a bit, there is a pain causing dynamic in place that you need to start dealing with if you want the pain stop progressing and go away.

Find more information about Plantar Fasciitis Symptoms.

Plantar Fasciitis Surgery

It is a last ditch effort to do -something- to help.

After Rest and Anti-inflammatory drugs and Corticosteroid Injections fail to eliminate your Plantar Faciitis, doctors have no option left other than to recommend surgery.

It's called a Plantar Fasciotomy. This means that a surgeon cuts the Plantar Fascia away from it's connection to your heel bone.

That's like removing some pillars from a bridge you drive over every day.

Sound like a good idea?

The last you need is a more weakening of the structure of the arch of your foot.

There are better options, that actually work.

Find out more about Plantar Fasciitis Treatment.



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