one step forward and two back
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Or is it the other way...two steps forward and one (tumbling) step back?
Just a warning, and a little moan.
Saturday I walked around the shops. By the end of an hour, my right foot was painful, but I made it back. Sunday, we decided to do a gentle Nordic walking for about half an hour or so. Fifteen minutes into this gentle amble, my right heel became really painful and we turned back. I was struggling badly with the pain in my heel by then. By the time we got home, I was unable to put pressure on my foot.
I spent the weekend crawling on my knees to get anywhere, as the pain was excruciating.
Monday I had to go to the surgery to have a BP monitor fitted, unconnected to the heel. I struggled in with the help of husband. The next morning, today, I managed to get appointment with GP before BP monitor was removed.
She diagnosed Plantar Fascilitis, ie inflammation of the ligament in your foot, in the underneath of my foot.
The reason I'm posting this, apart from feeling sorry for myself, is that it can be caused by exercise in people who do little or who are overweight, just like me at the moment and particularly in people over 50 or so.
The pain is bad, but the exercises I was told to do have certainly helped and even after one day of exercising my foot, I'm feeling better and don't fall over with the pain like I did last night getting out of bed to go to the toilet!
So, beware! Exercise gently and wear suitable supportive shoes. I've now got some gel supports in mine.
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tina-uk_cwall Susanne_M_UK
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tavidu Susanne_M_UK
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Susanne_M_UK tavidu
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Roll your foot over a tin/ can (under the arch of the foot)
Sit on straight chair and keeping heel
on floor, lift front of foot several times
Standing against wall, lean forward on one leg and stretch muscle of other leg alternately
Stand on bottom of stair, heels over the stairs, hang onto rail, lift and lower heels
A few others, but really about stretching the tendon in your arch.
Sit on floor with legs straight out. With towel around foot, move top of foot gently back and forth.
Maybe best if you look it up, as these exercises were for me specifically.
tavidu Susanne_M_UK
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phyllis10549 Susanne_M_UK
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debbie27473 Susanne_M_UK
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