[pct-l] Plantar fascitis

[marmot marmot]

I had it for the last 600 or so miles of  CDT. Didn't know what it was-- thought I was walking on a broken foot. But the thing only hurt so that I could not walk on it first thing in the morning and got better as the day went on. If I left my boot on( was still using boots then) at night the fascia stayed stretched out so when I got up for the early morning pee,I didn't have to hop on one leg. So I think one of those stretch out cloth booties would have helped--they have  a band that pulls and connects the toe to the front of your ankle. I got my injury from hiking without arch supports.  Just the way my feet are built. Others have the opposite problem.  Once it healed after 4 months off trail, it has never come back.My feet get a serious self massage every night before I drift off to sleep. One good reason to have a hiking partner--foot massages.  On the AT we traded foot massages all the time. There just weren't many people out there in the 90's on the PCT& CDT.    There's a critical mass now. Let's start a new tradition.  Marmot

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> On Feb 24, 2014, at 4:11 PM, "Landy Figueroa" <landykf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> Anyone deal with plantar fascitis on the trail?  I was given the gift of PF
> this summer while stupidly hiking with stiff hiking boots and a heavy pack
> for work.  It's the devil.  My foot is painfully bothersome today after a
> training hike.  I look forward in dread at the possibility of this plague
> on the trail.
> 
> Also, anyone ever try those yoga-toe things to spread your toes out?  I
> notice the PF is worse when my toes are squished together in the front of
> my shoe.  Probable solutions are wide toe-box shoes like Altra shoes,
> possibly hiking some small time a day with something like yoga-toes in the
> shoes to spread my toes and exercise my arches in that position, bringing a
> golf ball and some sort of foam roller on the trail (high maintenance,
> geez).  Discuss please.
> 
> Landy
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