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17 Feb ’12
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You're welcome, man.
Not that I want to open a can of worms, but there's a good chance that some muscle imbalances in your hip may have actually started the plantar fasciitis. If that's the case, figuring out the hips will take all of the tension off of the plantar fascia.
I find that to be the case in about half of the people that come to me with foot issues. Working on the hip is actually much less painful than working on the calf and the foot. To be honest, calf and foot work is about the most painful thing I do
19 Feb ’12
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Well to sound completely wacko, but here goes.
Another possible cause of Plantar Fascitis?? Stress. More importantly, repressed stress/anxiety. To make a long story short, I suffered from herniated discs in my neck twice in the past 5 years. The last time, I read a book called, Healing Back Pain by Dr. John Sarno. His theory is that the majority of back pain (especially recurrent back pain) is caused by repressed stress and anxiety. His book helped my neck pain go away (100%). But an interesting thing is that Planar Fascitis was one of the ailments that he listed as that can be caused by repressed stress and was something I had suffered from in between disc herniations. Just some food for thought.
17 Feb ’12
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Stress definitely plays into it; it absolutely has a chemical impact on the equation. Another reason that the plantar fasciitis and neck/back pain seem inter-connected is because they are connected fascially. The muscles involved gross body movements(flexion, extension, rotation, etc) continually reinforce their connections so that they can function more and more efficiently. It's when there's a disruption in the grain of these "myofascial trains" ( like trigger points, scars, adhesions to other fascial trains) that pain and dysfunction occur.
This is the Superficial Back Line. It runs from the bottom of the toes, up the back of the body, over the top of the head, and terminates at the brow ridge. Dysfunction on one end can cause pain all the way on the other end.
15 Feb ’12
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wow, I never knew that. That explains why all my pain runs down the right side of my body, foot, hip, back. Who should I see about this martin?
17 Feb ’12
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That's a good question. There doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rule as to which profession knows about these. All of my clients who come from out of town to see me ask me the same thing.
These myofascial "sausage links" correspond @80-85% with the chi meridians used by Traditional Chinese Medicine. That Superficial Back Line is very similar to the bladder channel used by acupuncturists. But too many acupuncturists deal more with the ethereal, mystical BS side of TCM.
There's a style of bodywork called Rolfing, and licensed Rolfers should know this stuff backwards and forwards, but I've gotten some really disappointing feedback from my clients who have gone back home and visited Rolfers..
The Bible for this stuff is a book called Anatomy Trains. Maybe look for someone who advertizing that they work in a similar manner. If you can't find one, let me know what your symptoms are, and I can give you a plan of attack for treating yourself
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