Well now I've gone and done it...had been having some pain in my heel when I woke up in the morning...which improved during the day... but tonight, while working with my son on his baseball drills, I was helping him with form during running and felt a big "pop" in my heel during jogging. So now it seems like i'll be on the shelf for several weeks trying to let the plantar fasciitis flare up calm down. hurts like the dickens to walk and put weight on the heel. Hard to imagine shifting my weight during my swing. Maybe I can work on putting and chipping.
And dang, i had plans to a couple times this week...
Well that sucks, doesn't it? I feel for you as both my wife and my son have had issues with plantar fasciitis. I know that it can be a long recovery. Hope that this is just a temporary setback for you.
Real sorry to hear about your health issue. But I agree with you that this could be good time to work on your short game skills. Who knows, you might get a lot better around the greens and even take a few strokes off your score after the extra work on the short game and you get back your health. Good luck with both.
Don
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I'm sure you got the instructions for stretching and such. Someone at work who has it said freezing a bottle of water and rolling your foot on it is good, too.
It's not how...it's how many
I heard that too Aimee...Yes I'm stretching it during the day...had too much walking today..had to go all over the place .. am going to try and play 9 holes tomorrow but with a cart. We'll see how it goes.
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How did you make out with your plantar fasciitis flare-up, Scott? I'm assuming that you got some treatment and it subsided as your original post was several months ago.
Turns out that I may have the same issue bothering me at present. I bought a new pair of shoes on the weekend because my heel had been bothering me. That seems to happen when my shoes get to be about two years old and I have always put that down to the padding/shock absorption in the heel of the shoes breaking down. Well, this time it hasn't helped and it's the worst it has ever been tonight. I've been icing it and rolling a therapy ball on my heel and sole of my foot hoping I can get ahead of it. We'll see how it goes because I have my men's league tilt tomorrow. Crossing my fingers...
Well it's still flaring up some, especially if I walk golf much. I'm doing some stretching in the morning so it's not so bad. I think I may go have some inserts made that fit my foot better than the over the counter ones. I need to work on my additional "PT" things they game me to do....I'm just lazier for some of that ;) .
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I managed to get my game in this morning and walked. I wasn't too sure how that would go and was prepared to quit after two if it was too painful. It wasn't too bad walking on grass and it actually felt as though it may have helped lossen things up a bit as the round progressed. I went to the grocery store following golf and that was another matter altogether walking on a hard surface. I was limping pretty good by the time I got home. Driving wasn't any treat either.
I've been icing it on and off since I got home and it feels quite a bit better now so I'm hopeful that this too will pass in the next few days. Still no idea what triggered this as I don't recall doing anything specific that casued discomfort.
Same here Sco..I don't know what caused mine originally..but stretching it helps as does icing..between my foot and back, I have to do a little work to get the aches and pains out in the morning.
S
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