Foot Pain When Running? | What Is Plantar Fasciitis & How To Treat It

What tips do you have to recover from Plantar Fasciitis? Leave us a comment!

I am so happy that I haven't had a single recurrence of plantar fasciitis in over a year and a half, since I've lost 140 pounds. Pretty sure the weight loss helped that

After having plantar fascitis for over a year, and finally recovered, Aside from stretching, massages and insole, I found the one thing that helped me the most was doing calf raises on a step daily. And the key to is to go down very slowly on one leg at the movement! the theory according to my physio was that it is the eccentric loading on the fascia that promotes repair! I highly recommend doing daily 3x10 calf raises, go up with 2 legs but down slowly with one, it is the downstroke that really counts.

After struggling with it for years, I've found definitely backing off running a lot along with regular stretching. One thing that has really helped me is just hitting the gym and working on overall mobility and watching different exercises for hips, knees, ankle mobility, etc along with ankle strengthening.

Thank you so much for the video! I am pretty new to running, started about 2 months ago. And a lot of your explanations for why I might be feeling pain are all things I have been doing incorrectly. I will take your advice and make the corrective actions to my training routine. Thanks again

First time I've had this pain and I listened to the part with rolling my foot on a ball and it's helped so far!

Had it about 15 years now Had every treatment going plus surgery, only this last year beginning to understand what works, 2 mins calf stretch and 2 achillies stretch really helps me.

Orthotic Insoles worked well for me together with the addition of some of the exercises you showed in the video. Thank you for the information.

I've been suffering with plantar fasciitis for almost a year now. I've tried almost all the things you mentioned. The one thing that has helped me the most is, ironically, barefoot walking. I had many people tell me not to walk barefoot, but I started to notice that my feet felt better when I wasn't working and putting on shoes. I finally feel like I'm starting to heal now that I spend much more time barefoot and in barefoot style shoes. Maybe it won't work for everyone, but it works for me!

What a good topic for runners!!

Had it earlier this year for trying to increase my training from 10k race to 22k race in a month. Needless to say, 19k training damaged something in my knee and gave me plantar fasciitis. I rested from running (not swimming) for 2-3 months and massaged my foot with a tennis ball. It worked great and haven't felt any pain in about 6 months

Thank you for such a valuable knowledge. I like to run but this pain stopped me for days and now after watching this video it’s finally over.

Nicely explained 👍

Very interesting.Thank you.

Good advices so far. thanks !

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I had severe plantar fascitis for two years. I tried loads of regular calf stretches,Ice bottle rolling,all useless,spikey ball felt good initially but actually made pain worse during the rest of the day. Taping didn't help but produced major skin reactions. Cortisone injection just temporarily masked the symptoms so I wouldn't recommend. I took up a lot more cycling to maintain cardio but the thing that really turned it for me was persisting with a night splint and during the day my job involves a lot of walking so I wear orthotic support for this,but make sure I spend a reasonable time without to let foot dynamics establish. Keeping up regular foot excercise and calf raises all to increase foot and arch strength. Now back running increasing very gradually which I find tough as I have maintained good cardio and want to increase distance and pace but my running mechanics are in soft condition so a rush back is unwise ,I initially tried running too soon and although I felt no pain during running afterwards it was painful and months of pain setback,this was six months ago ,since then I started using a night splint and persistence has been the biggest reason for my eventual cure, one tip is if you press around your heel and still feel pain anywhere you are not over it and need to maintain nursing until pain gone

Great video. Very thorough. Nails look good... Thanks for sharing...

Thanks Alot this helped me so much! I'm only young and this was stopping me from doing any sports. So thanks alot GTN for helping me reduce pain

Got to your channel for swimming techniques and found it very helpful. Just discover that I also had Plantar Fasciitis and found out that you guys are also dealing with this! you guys are awesome!! the content that you provide is one of the best available online! Cheers from Israel