Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

I play basketball and this plantar fasciitis has been killing me. I've been dealing with it for a while now, but it just gets so bad sometimes that I can hardly walk afterwards.

I don't want surgery...

[Blzer]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

Must be what I have. I've had this "heel" injury for three years. Can't play baseball with it. Can't even have surgery because they don't even truly know what it is.

Good luck man. If it helps, I have this:

http://www.amazon.com/Foot-Baths-hea.../dp/B000CMDS32

I use it for an hour after any practice of any sort, and ice for twenty minutes after. It feels better than pain at least.

[NDAlum]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

I had this in college and it absolutely killed. I thought it was a bone bruise on my heel or something...turned out to be PF. I could barely walk it hurt so bad.

Our training department would do ice-ultrasound-ice bath. It eventually went away for me.

I wish you a speedy recovery! PF is no joke!

[Burns11]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

Stretch it at night, stretch it first thing in the morning, tape it during the day. That's what healed my, and my sister's, plantar fasciitis.

[24]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

Ice it constantly and avoid playing for a week or 2. You really want to stay off of it to avoid any further damage. It hurts like hell

[Galvatron]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

I'm still not sure if this is what I might have right now. It's like a swelling between the ball of my right foot and my heel, right underneath the arch. Not really that painful most times, even during activities like running, but on occasion can be somewhat irritating.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

OP might want to hop off the court for a little bit because it's not going to get any better if you keep playing with it. And I'm assuming you don't half *** it when you're on the court and if that's the case then yeah, take some time off dude.

[TripleCrown9]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

Firstly, I'm not sure how you know that your plants are fascist. Second, I don't really see how that would effect your performance in sports.

Spoiler

Now that I got that horrible joke out of the way, everyone is right. Stay off it other than basic walking and stuff like that, and ice it when you get the opportunity.

[sydrogerdavid]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

I'm not a doctor or a PT, but when I was playing little league, I had a terrible pain with my heels after playing a game. They would kill me until the next morning when the pain subsided.

My mom is a PTA and she told me to apply pressure to a certain point right above my heel. I'm not trying to endorse backwoods medicine or home remedies, but I never had pain in my heels again. Just sharing a personal experience.

[RockinDaMike]

Re: Playing sports with plantar fasciitis

You gotta stretch man. I had it both of my feet last year and it got so bad I couldn't walk for 2 weeks. It was hell for months but it went away when i started yoga.

Yoga completely has healed me from it. I had pain in my feet, hip and back for over a decade. Also I got better at balling too with the flexibility and balance that has come from yoga. There's a reason Lebron does yoga regularly and you notice how rarely he gets injured.