For the last couple months, I’ve been working through Plantar Fasciitis (successfully!), but noted that flip turns in the pool were aggravating it. So I’ve been swimming “water polo” style: flip a couple feet/0.6742 meters away from the wall, do a couple dolphin kicks, give a good hard pull or two, and get going the other way. While this has certainly taken care of the problem and kicked up my swim workout a notch or two in some ways, I can’t really calibrate how I’m swimming now compared to what I’ve done previously and preserve my somewhat tenuous PF recovery. It occurred to me to wear my arch supports inside of (unused) Vibram 5-fingers and see if that helps. . .
As a former fish, I suppose I hit the wall pretty hard on flip turns, and I could likely dial it back and get adequate results. Just curious if anyone has thoughts/experience with this, and other possible solutions.
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I have achilles tendinitis and when I do flip turns it aggravates it at times. If I do open turns it doesn’t bother it as much since I guess I do not push off as hard. Don’t know if that will help you or not. Open turns are a bit annoying for me but it helps easy the pain.
I’ve had this same issue in the past and what worked for me was to tape up the arch with duct tape. I used 2 strips side by side under the arch and overlapped on to the top of the foot. Don’t make it too tight or you’ll cut off circulation.
It’s cheap and stays on for the whole workout. The duct tape with the woven fabric works the best.
Hope this helps.
I’ve had this same issue in the past and what worked for me was to tape up the arch with duct tape. I used 2 strips side by side under the arch and overlapped on to the top of the foot. Don’t make it too tight or you’ll cut off circulation.
It’s cheap and stays on for the whole workout. The duct tape with the woven fabric works the best.
Hope this helps.
Do you mean full width strips running laterally (as opposed to front to back)? Sounds like that would be pretty good support. Plus, I’ll get rid of the drag caused by hair on top of my feet. :-}
I know when I had PF issues I think it seemed to help. But I only have issues when running or walking, never pushing off walls. My PF inflamation was on my heel. Sounds like yours is focused more on the arch area and any force across the foot causes pain.
Using a splint at night to stretch it helped the most.