Plantar Fasciotomy

I was VERY happy when I found these exercises. I started them about a week after I had my stitches removed. They very much helped me to regain flexibility and nice range of motion. I hope you find them helpful as well.

Click the link to visit the site with exercise details: Safe exercises for plantar fasciitis

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Yesterday I tried walking without crutches. It wasn’t easy, but I wanted to try. I did okay. I wasn’t hobbling terribly like I was before so that’s good! I do have to walk slower and I try to concentrate on walking in as normal a fashion as possible. Today I’m going one place and will attempt this again. Otherwise I stay off my feet as much as possible.

My right foot is doing better. It’s the one I haven’t had surgery on, but my plantar fasciitis in that foot REALLY flared up with all of the stress it was under. I do the same exercises on my right foot that I do for my left foot and massage and ice it as well. It helps. What’s really important is allowing my feet to rest by staying off of them. I also read that getting out of bed in the morning without doing at least one exercise first reinjures the plantar fascia. So I’ve been sure to do some exercises for at least a few minutes before putting any weight on my feet. It seems to be helping. I’m glad!!

Physical therapy is going well. I feel as though I should be farther along in my recovery than I am, but I really can’t complain. This is a 3-month recovery process and I don’t know what makes me think I should be running around already. I guess I get impatient and a little frustrated. My doctor and physical therapist are happy with my progress. I am too – except when I’m in pain. LOL

I started thinking about what’s going on in my body and what it has been through with all of the medication and stress. I realized that I probably have a lot of toxic buildup in my body which could further slow down my recovery. So I’m going to start a nutritional cleansing program.

I have almost two months before my next surgery and that’s a good amount of time to get my body in good condition before then. Obviously I won’t be perfect, but I’ll be healthier, more energetic and several pounds lighter (which will help in many ways). I’m confident that if my body has the proper nutritional support it needs my recovery will go a lot smoother and I’ll have better lifetime results.

I’ve ordered my first 30-day nutritional cleansing program and it will be delivered Tuesday. I’ll be sure to post updates on how that goes and if it’s helping in my recovery. I expect that it will and will also help combat those times when I get a little down. I can’t wait!!

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I do have some good news. I made an appointment with my surgeon because I had some real concerns about having surgery on my right foot while I still can’t fully walk on my left foot. The second surgery has been rescheduled for November 18th. This gives me two months to build the strength back up in my left foot post-op. I’m very happy about that.

More good news… My doctor is very pleased with the range of motion I have in my left foot. So is my physical therapist. Well, so am I of course! Now that my range of motion is at a very good point I can switch my focus to strengthening exercises. This is very important to overall recovery and true success.

On more bit of good news… For three weeks after surgery my doctor had me wear a walking boot (like a soft cast that could be removed for icing my foot) to keep my foot at a 90 degree angle to my leg. This keeps the plantar fascia stretched so that it does not reattach. You see, the purpose of the surgery was to partially release or cut the plantar fascia to relieve the pressure that causes the pain associated with plantar fasciitis.

Apparently not all doctors will tell patients this and keeping the foot in a stable position such as this is very important to the success of the surgery. At my appointment my doctor was pressing on different areas of my foot and GOOD NEWS! The plantar fascia did not reattach.

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