| Do you have Plantar Fasciitis? Pain in your feet, limp | | | | pain and actual damage. |
| around for a while when you get out of bed in the | | | | 2. Every time you irritate or reinjure your foot by |
| morning, hot spot on the heel? | | | | taking a step on it, the nervous system increases the |
| There are lots of things you should do to help your | | | | Inflammation Response, and this creates more pain in |
| feet, and staying off them is one of them, sort of. | | | | your foot, which makes the structure tighten up |
| Of all the commonly prescribed methods prescribed | | | | even more, which makes it easier to reinjure....which |
| and advised, rest or staying off your feet is one of | | | | makes the nervous system increase the |
| the hardest ones to successfully do. Why? Because | | | | Inflammation Response. You see the pattern? |
| to get anywhere in your house or anywhere else, | | | | If you can limit the re-injuring, if you can limit the |
| you have to use your feet to get there. | | | | strain for a while and give the body a chance to heal |
| And that's a problem because every time you take a | | | | and get the pain out, that is doing your body a big |
| step, all your weight is pressing down on that foot, | | | | favor. |
| which stresses the already unhappy tissue on the | | | | But realistically, you have to get up and around, and |
| bottom of the foot. | | | | can't stay totally off your feet for a week. One day, |
| Here are 2 Reasons to stay off your feet if you | | | | three days, just isn't enough, and a week or more |
| have Plantar Fasciitis. | | | | just isn't going to happen unless you're in a coma. |
| 1. If plantar fascia tissue in your foot is trying to heal, | | | | Staying off your feet helps. |
| and you go forcing it apart by taking a step and | | | | The problem is, neither Rest nor staying off your |
| putting your weight on your mobile arch, the injured | | | | feet will actually heal your Plantar Fasciitis. It may help |
| tissue is very likely going to get irritated, or newly | | | | the body heal enough to take the pain away for |
| injured, or both with each new step. | | | | some length of time, but because of the process |
| The foot bone structure is designed as a mobile arch. | | | | described above, you structure actually changes over |
| It flexes and is held together with connective tissue. | | | | time and gets more fragile, easier to irritate, less |
| When there is too much load, it can stress, strain, | | | | healthy. |
| and injure that connective tissue. Especially when that | | | | Meaning, when you get back and active on your |
| stress is repetitive, kind of like somebody punching | | | | feet, and/or you hit a point of too much strain on |
| you in the shoulder twenty times instead of just one | | | | the tissue again, the pain is going to come right back |
| time. Once hurts, but twenty times can leave lasting | | | | and possibly with a vengeance. |