Weight & The Secret Sauce for Plantar Fasciitis Rehab That No One Talks About
Reducing our weight is important in rehabilitation of plantar fasciitis but it is not enough.
More than our weight we should be looking at our foot pressure and its influence on our plantar fascia. If we look at it, our plantar fascia is the bridge between us and the ground. If foot pressure is not distributed properly within our foot, our plantar needs to work harder to equalize force distribution. This is where our plantar fascia starts to be overloaded and collagen degeneration and deformation starts to occur.
How to Check Foot Pressure: (see video above)
How to Balance Foot Pressure:
- Improve foot alignment
Foot pressure wont be equal if our foot posture is not at its optimal state. Training the foot to experience both pronation and supination movements is important to help the plantar fascia feed forward information upstream on our body much more efficiently.
2. Improving your foot’s tripod
Creating good force distribution on our plantar fascia rest on how stable our foot is and if we can access the tripod on our foot. Our foot should be able to experience the ground and experience weight on the ball of the big toe, pinky and heels
3. Wedge areas where you don’t have any foot foot pressure
Wedging assists our foot to be able to experience the ground. Combine with mobility exercises to experience end range pronation and supination movements helps equalize foot pressure (see video above)
Managing both weight and foot pressure relieves your plantar fascia from unnecessary pressure so that it can begin to heal. A lot of practitioners are already talking about weight and it’s influence on your plantar fascia, but not a lot are talking about foot pressure which is equally important.
