You can't beat Plantars like ITBS!

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You know when you come down with ITB or ITBS, you know it will go away in a month or two. It just comes and goes. Also, that stuff is immediately debilitating where it hurts so bad, if you have a sever case of it, you just can’t run right from mile one, if you have a severe case of it inflaming that condyle. So, you don’t even go out the door, or not very far.

With Plantars, its different. Its a sneaky son of a bitch. You feel it down there, but if you are an idiot, it will freaking invite you to run on it. It asks: okay, with me, you can be an idiot. Do you want to run? Sure, You can run to 1-2 miles, in pain, then it flickers away only to come back with a vengeance a few hours later, and you wish you hadn’t done it.

Then she will be askng the same question 4 days later with an evil grin.

ITBS is like someone you know you dont’ want to go out with, immediately. Plantars is like going out with someone you wanted to go out with but regretted it in the morning.

Its got this kind of vicious reprieve that LETS YOU THINK you can run on it which ITBS does not. Everything comes due HOURS AFTER THE RUN. ANd, if you keep dealing with it, it will go that way DURING THE RUN.

I’ve had PF for 2 and half months, from training from a marathon. Been to a foot doctor, had the shots, doing the splint, doing the stretches. Including calve muscles. She said it was a severe case. I can run about every three days, then it comes right back. Its worse when I run slower. Biking causes THE SAME THING. I can even feel it after swimming from push offs. Weightlifing same thing.

I guess the deal is, just freaking nothing. How long is this going to go on?

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who knows…I’m on month #4 so I can relate…make friends with the eliptical machine :wink:
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I guess the deal is, just freaking nothing. How long is this going to go on?

Not a Doc but. . .

The first thing you need to figure out is - do you have classic PF or something else?

The reason I ask/say this is that there are some conditions that have the symptoms of PF, but are not PF - specifically tightness of the deep muscles and facia of the calf. If you have that, it may look and feel like PF. More than a few Docs and sports med folks will diagnose it as PF and will treat it as PF - but it’s not classic PF. The good news about this is that this condition will respond very well and very quickly to deep muscle ART that can be self administered with the products from TP Therapy - http://www.tptherapy.com

I realize this is sounding like shill for these products, but the bottom line is that, they work!! Normal physio and the like is something you book in for once maybe twice a week. It get’s expensive and time consuming. With the TP Therapy products you can do most of the deep muscle stuff at home and every day of the week - speeding recovery significantly.

My wife had what she thought was PF two years ago. Several of the top Sports Med Docs locally had told her -* she may never run again!! *In the end it was not PF, it was tighness of the deep muscles and facia of the calf. Her condition responded quickly to using the TP Therapy products - she was back to normal running within 3 weeks - this after an almost 6 month lay-off from running.

Now real and classic PF is an altogetehr different story and longer journey back - but you owe it to yourself to truly get to the bottom of this. Classic and real PF will also respond well to TP Therapy as well - it’s just that the recovery may be longer.

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**you know it will go away in a month or two **

Good luck with your PF. I’m into month three now of the ITBS Experience and it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. )@(#)&!)@(#!!!

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Mine lasted 6 months and when it did finally go away, I got it in the other foot. I hate PF. My first advice would be to go get some orthodics from your podiatrist. It helped me a ton!