Plantar Fasciitis and Leg Work

[IntensePump]

Hey guys,

I was diagnosed a couple years ago with Plantar Fasciitis. I was given a steroid injection and prescribed orthotics. I have an athletic job which requires me to run quite a bit. My injury has never fully healed but I am able to do my job fine as well as have a normal and productive leg lifting day with the exception of calves. I fear that heavily training my calves with make my condition much worse do to all the stress it puts on the plantar fascia.

Do you guys think that training calves will make my condition much worse? Are there any supplements I can take to help my condition? Anybody have experience with the same type of problem?

All help is appreciated.

Thanks

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[AlwaysInjured1]

Plantar fasciitis is often worsened by tight calf muscles. So if you work out your calves and don't stretch enough you could make it worse or have it return. Make sure you keep stretching.

[JohnSmeton]

my mom has it. you need to do the stretching exercises on a regular basis

[Hokiegal]

I like your name "AlwaysInjured1," I can identify! I have plantar fasciitis in both feet right now. Just bought a night splint for my right foot. Wouldn't you know that days later I got it in my left foot, should have bought TWO!

[Dare81]

I've got it in my right foot after just a few weeks running...on hard surfaces with poor shoes. The pain was terrible after i tried running again after a few weeks rest. It just seems like a permanent condition. I try and roll a frozen water bottle every day and do some stretching exercises. Nothing works though.

[neuergriff]

I had crippling PF - showed up clearly on an MRI. (Still have peripheral neuropathy (PN) in one leg and foot - that is a separate issue.) Years of hiking and walking on concrete several miles a day had left my feet damaged and full of scar tissue. I could not walk around my home without a cane. My left leg had begun to atrophy. After 18 months of doctors, PT, pills, splints, I thought what the heck and found a chiropractor who used dry needling and the graston technique. Within two weeks I was walking a mile, within a month I was walking 2 miles pain free from the PF (she could not treat the type of PN I have). She had to treat the feet and the legs and buttocks. Since then, there has been a double blind study on PF and dry needling which shows it is as effective as cortisone shots, physical therapy and orthotics. As I told her, she gave me my life back.