Plantar fascia

[Mr. dB]

Is it possible to rupture the plantar's fascia?

If so, I think I did it tonight. I've been having issues with plantar's fasciitis, and was gonna call my doctor tomorrow anyway because the treatment he gave me (night splint) isn't helping at all.

Well tonight at work I tripped over a guitar case and something went "POP" in my foot, and the pain got dramatically worse. I can barely walk. Fun.

 

[KillahBee]

I roll my foot on a galf ball HARD all the time. shit hurts like a bitch but also feels really good. kind of l,ike when I ask girls to cut me right before I orgasm

 

[Mr. dB]

I roll my foot on a galf ball HARD all the time. shit hurts like a bitch but also feels really good. kind of l,ike when I ask girls to cut me right before I orgasm

What are those seed pods from trees, the ones that look like a cockleburr except they're about an inch in diameter? When I was a kid I like putting one of those in my shoe. I guess I was a seven year old masochist.

I'm gonna try ice. I've got a bag of frozen purple hull peas I can try.

 

[ceo]

Arch support and good shoes.

 

[guest username]

It's possible to rip, break, or stretch anything... fascia, tendons, ligaments, bone. If it's the human body, it's breakable.

 

[mwm5]

take a shirt or towel and use it to pull ur toes back to stretch arch, that is what the dr has me do when i had this issue. it takes doing this for a week or so but it got better.

 

[canadianhitman]

See a doc tomorrow if you're in a lot of pain. If you think you're alright, you still need to start thinking about having the problem dealt with: I suggest searching for a certified Active Release practitioner. Be sure to call around and ask them about their experiences treating plantar fasciitis. Start your search at Active Release Techniques®

Good luck.

 

[Mr. dB]

See a doc tomorrow if you're in a lot of pain. If you think you're alright, you still need to start thinking about having the problem dealt with: I suggest searching for a certified Active Release practitioner. Be sure to call around and ask them about their experiences treating plantar fasciitis. Start your search at Active Release Techniques®

Good luck.

I had very good luck indeed with Myofascial Release Therapy for a bout of back pain a couple of years ago.

 

[Mr. dB]

Oh wow I can't walk at all now, barefoot. I was hobbled but mobile in shoes with a heel pad/arch support, but I'm gonna need crutches to move about my apartment. I had to sit down to take my socks off 'cause I couldn't stand on my left foot to raise the right one.

And two Tramodol did nothing.

 

[stosstruppe]

Arch support and good shoes.

+1 for foot orthotics.

Prevention > cure

 

[chris302001]

If you have a spur in there you can wear a hole in it too.....

 

[ortiz34]

And two Tramodol did nothing.

take four

 

[goin on 4T]

How about you pick up your shit and watch were you are going!
JK
I hate jacking up my feet can't do much when you can't walk... Epsom salt bath, then ice 15 min, heat 15 min for a couple of hours...

 

[stilleto]

yikes.
i have plantar fasciitis. it hurts like hell when i get out of a car, and then i limp for a few minutes. i know i have to stretch it more.

i hope you get better soon- i imagine you need an xray.

 

[Mr. dB]

If you have a spur in there you can wear a hole in it too.....

There is a spur. I saw my Dr. on Wed the 14th about this, because the plantar fasciitis started becoming bothersome over the last few weeks. That appointment included an xray. My Dr. didn't seem to think much of the spur.

The Dr. gave me a splint to wear when I sleep, claiming that it usually works. It wasn't working for me, but at least I could still function. I was gonna schedule a follow-up anyway, but then last night I injured it. I was at work, and tripped over someone's guitar case. I didn't fall, but I caught myself with the left foot and when I did, with all my weight on it, something in there went POP and then I had that warm feeling like my shoe was suddenly full of something hot and mushy instead of a foot. In my mind's eye I saw the heel spur poke through the bottom of my foot, that's what the POP felt like.

I had to limp, badly, to get around for the rest of the night at work. But I could get around. Sort of. When I got home, and took off my shoes, I couldn't walk at all. I did a google search on the keywords "plantar fascia rupture" and the first case study I found matched my symptoms exactly, including the POP.

Sleep was very bad. I wore the splint, even though it doesn't seem to have been helping anything. But the pain in my foot gets much worse when I lie down. When I'm up, it's not so bad unless I try to put my weight on it, but lying down it begins to throb with stabbing pain.

There's no visible bruise or discoloration, but my foot does look a little puffy.

Anyway, I've got an appointment for 1:30. I wonder if my GP is gonna pass me off to a specialist?

 

[ceo]

Pott's fracture.

The doc will get it handled. Best of luck sir! Hope everything turns out better than ever.

 

[chris302001]

Pott's fracture.

The doc will get it handled. Best of luck sir! Hope everything turns out better than ever.

Isnt potts fx a bimaleolar ankle fx?

 

[guest username]

Isnt potts fx a bimaleolar ankle fx?

Yes

 

[walliwalibus]

I roll my foot on a galf ball HARD all the time. shit hurts like a bitch but also feels really good. kind of l,ike when I ask girls to cut me right before I orgasm

Oh damn now, don't get us all in a uproar with excitement.

 

[nefertiti]

For some off reason I keep reading the title of this thread as "placenta."

Just wanted to share.

 

[Mr. dB]

Went to my doctor at 1:30, waited half an hour, got a five minute visit and a referral to an orthopod, that'll be $25.

Drove to the orthopedic surgeon's suite, filled out the forms, sat in lobby for half an hour, then was called into a small office where an assistant copied my insurance card and entered my data into the system, then was led to another waiting room. Apparently after you get past the lobby, each of the four partners have their own separate waiting rooms. After sitting in that waiting room for a while I was called for x-ray, placed in yet another waiting area, waited, got x-rayed, returned to the x-ray waiting area, waited a while, was then called back to the second waiting area where I waited some more. For my 3:00 appointment I was finally called into an examination room at 4:30, where I waited some more before the doctor finally arrived. Gave him my history, he examined my feets, and decided "you must have torn your Plantar's Fascia". He gave me some orthotics and a scrip for Naproxin and said it'd resolve itself. He seemed to think that I probably helped things by tearing the PF, since that's about what the surgery would involve anyway. I asked for crutches and he said I wouldn't need 'em. Call back in ten days if there's no improvement.

In short I think I got the bum's rush.

 

[needtogetarmy]

I do not know if you can rupture it but I have torn mine before.

I did a marathon back in 2000. A few days later I was walking down the steps and just didn't step right and whammo. I was laid up for a long time with that thing. I couldn't put any pressure on the foot. Ouch. i didn't ice it or anything though. I just took it easy and it eventually healed.

 

[chris302001]

Not even a cortisone shot? No need to worry about PF integrity if

1) its already torn

2) surgery would just clip it anyways

 

[AAP]

Damn that sucks.

I went through this a couple years ago. It lasted about six months before finaling healing on it's own. But it was a bitch. Mornings were the worst. I would wake up, pain free... get out of bed and on the first step just buckle down to the floor in pain. It honestly felt like I had literally jumped with all my weight down on a board with 10 inch nails protruding from it.

And when I would walk, even after stretching and loosening it up every so often on a random step there would just be a sharp !!RIIPPP!! of pain to cut through the bottom of my foot, feeling like my skin just tore in half.

bitch is fucking pain to deal with.

 

[ceo]

Isnt potts fx a bimaleolar ankle fx?

Yes. I was just joking.

 

[Mr. dB]

I figure first visit with a specialist, they're gonna assume horses not zebras, and give me the textbook response. It'll take repeat visits to get more personalized service. And maybe, as a trained professional, his hunches may work better than mine...

 

[Mr. dB]

I guess I'm improving. Today I can curl my toes without feeling like someone is stabbing me.