Do Your feet ache?
You may have plantar fasciitis.
Plantar Fasciitis
Do your feet hurt when you get out of the bed in the morning even though they have been resting all night? This foot pain might mean that you have plantar fasciitis. Keep in mind that although you feel it in your feet your plantar fasciitis pain could actually be rooted from somewhere else in the body. Sometimes the cause can actually be elsewhere (like in the spine) so no amount of work you do on your own feet will solve the issue.
Plantar Fasciitis FAQs
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People typically recognize it as pain in the arch of the foot. Plantar fasciitis is a tightening and inflammatory process whereby the fascia on the bottom of the foot gets irritated. It is usually related to tightness somewhere in the posterior muscle chain. For example, a tight achilles tighten or hamstring can pull on the heel bone and create the plantar fasciitis.
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Yes. Plantar fasciitis can cause pain up your leg but it can also be the other way around - meaning sometimes it is your leg giving you your foot pain. The body often times radiates pain from elsewhere. Your leg pain could also be due to sciatica.
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Yes - With proper care it can go away.
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No - but plantar fasciitis will often result in heel spurs. Heel spurs are typically a calcification of the attachment of the plantar fasciitis to the heel bone as a result of prolonged or unaddressed tension in the plantar fascia.