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insoles/heel support

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gooseybaby
gooseybaby

Hi

can anyone recommend effective instep/heel supports?

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  • JerryR
    JerryR gooseybaby

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    Gooseybaby, I am a retired physician and plantar fasciitis patient.  I got plantar fasciitis around February 2016.  After about four months, it completely resolved. 

    Here's what I think.  Plantar fasciitis is inflammation of the attachment of the plantar fascia to the heel bone, and/or some minimal tearing of the plantar fascia - just a few fibers - that results, naturally, in inflammation . . .   like a "pulled muscle."   Inflammation hurts until it heals and resolves.  So what's so difficult about curing P.F.?  Well we walk on it!!!  Let's say we take 5000 steps a day.  Imagine inflammation of your elbow, (i.e. tennis elbow).  Imagine taking your sore "tennis elbow" and wacking it against the wall, 5000 times a day.  Think it would heal quickly?  I don't either.

    So my cure for plantar fasciitis is cushion, cushion and cushion!!!  That's right - cushion the heel.  Here's what I did.  First, I wore the plantar fasciitis "relief bridge" gel-heel innersole in my shoes - that I got at Walgreen's for about $11.  Make sure your innersoles are soft and preferably made of gel.  (I plan to use mine indefinitely in my shoes.)  Then I wore a pair (usually) of nice thickish sox.  On my heel I wore fasciitis therapy wrap padded supports that I got on the internet for about $13.  (I don't wear them any more.)  So when I had my PF, under my heels I had 3 cushion layers.  I wore this about 24 hours a day - except when in the shower or swimming.  And after about 4 months, the PF was totally gone.  And I would suggest to you, have patience, not surgery.

    So Gooseybaby, sorry for the longwinded answer.  To answer your specific question I swear by the "plantar fasciitis relief-bridge gel-heel innersole - that I got at Walgreen's for about $11. Hope this helps you and the many other sufferers of plantar fasciitis.  Good Luck to you, doknabox/JerryR

  • zanylany
    zanylany gooseybaby

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    Hi

    Best thing to do is see a Podiatrist.  I spent money on different insoles and Gel heels  and they seemed to make it worse. The Podiatrist sorted one out to fit according to the foot problem.

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