100 things, fitness and exercise #29

[labelleizzy]

Hokay.

the plantar fasciitis is being a pain in my ...foot on too regular a basis.

So I go to look up causes and treatment. My doc had given me some basic information, and I've dealt with this before on the right-foot pre-knee-surgery.

One thing the online encyclopedias don't really mention is that overall muscle tension causes tension in the tendons/ligaments, the plantar fascia and the Achilles tendon. Particularly, dense-tense calves and tight hamstrings tighten up and cause pain in the tendons. Nor do they point out that the #1 way to loosen tight muscles that are otherwise healthy is to exercise them to warm them up and then to stretch in slow, gentle, gradual ways. Argh.

The upside is that since I do know that, I am now heading to the gym to spend some time warming up and stretching my body. I want to keep going to Friday Night Waltz and I don't want to hurt when I dance, ergo, other exercise, other preparation is needed.

I can still reach much farther over my head than I have in years, and can touch my upper arm to my head. The last therapeutic massage has saved that in my body, I haven't regressed, thank $Deity. (I can reach the top pantry shelf without the stepstool!)

Didn't get to the gym this week, and again, body is hurting for that.

I'm going, I'm GOING!!

Comments

[groblek.livejournal.com]

When I was having troubles with Plantar Fascitis,, I found wearing one of these http://www.thesock.com/ at night to be very helpful, though I'd suggest reworking the design a little so that the strap pulling your foot into position runs under the ball of the foot rather than from the toes, as I occasionally found the toes getting uncomfortable.

I also found that after I'd been wearing my toe shoes for several months, I no longer need my orthotics in other shoes, but I didn't try that until I'd had the Plantar Fascitis under control for a couple of years. I wouldn't recommend that sort of change without consulting with a podiatrist for someone with active difficulty. I do find that I have to make sure to stretch my Achilles' tendon still, so the relief may just be because I notice the need to stretch sooner than I did in other shoes and do something about it.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

ooo. Okay, thanks. I'll give that a look-see.

and I think that training myself to "notice the need to stretch sooner" may be the ticket I'm going after.

Thanks!