Plantar Fasciitis Treatment, Achilles Tendinitis Treatment

If you have been told you have plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendonitis, and that there is nothing that can be done, you have been misinformed.

Achilles tendonitis and plantar fasciitis are two conditions that I particularly like treating. They have similar causes of injury and similar treatments. This is why I have grouped them together.

It is challenging to treat feet and ankles because we constantly walk on them.

They are “weight bearing” and the weight of each step causes further damage.

As a result, these conditions require extensive treatment for complete healing.

Many of my patients are quite surprised to find there is a treatment for their plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendonitis.

They also are quite pleased when their pain is gone.

In my early 30s I developed Achilles tendonitis. Since it is weight bearing, it didn't heal as other injuries did. I tried a few therapies, but a number of months went by without any healing. I had a couple of chiropractors work on my ankle, but the treatments were very inadequate. I paid a podiatrist $400 for custom orthotics - talk about a waste of money! I wore those orthotics for more than a year, which only served to shorten my Achilles tendon. (The orthotics raise the heel a little. If worn all the time the tendon will shorten some which causes new problems.) I had to abandon my lower body workout routine, and I wasn't any better.

(This was earlier in my career before I treated a lot of sports injuries, so at the time, I didn't have a comprehensive treatment plan. My subsequent experience with treating my own Achilles tendonitis helped to shape my sports-injury practice. These individual treatments were talked about in chiropractic school, but learning how to put them together in a comprehensive treatment plan took insight and experience learned on the job.)

One day I said to myself, “I fix bodies for a living. I need to reevaluate what is happening here and fix myself.” So I did! What I discovered amazed me. The first thing I asked myself was “Why do my feet hurt so much in the morning when I get out of bed?” I thought about it, and I came to realize a few things about how muscle spasms react during sleep. I realized that my injured calf muscles were contracting and shortening overnight. (Fortunately injured muscles get stretched out as we use them during the day. But when we sleep the injured muscles quickly tighten back up.) As a result, the Achilles tendon was short in the morning. When I would take my first few steps with this shortened and inflamed tendon, it would hurt and further damage the tendon.

So I designed a homemade sleeping boot that prevented my Achilles tendon from contracting by keeping it the correct lengthened position all night long. (This boot is shown with other treatments in this chapter.) At first, I had to take the boot off after an hour because it would ache. Each night, I could wear the boot for longer periods of time. As soon as I was able to wear the boot through the entire night, I no longer experienced pain in the morning when I walked on it.

This is very important because those early morning painful steps are the most damaging
steps you take all day!

In the treatment section I will teach you how to deal with this.

Next, I reviewed the treatments for various conditions such as ice vs. heat, massage therapy, etc., and I incorporated them into the comprehensive routine you will see in this chapter. After a short period of time, my foot responded very favorably and I was 100 percent healed. I was able to get completely back into a normal workout routine, and most importantly, I have helped many patients with Achilles tendonitis (and plantar fasciitis) because of my experience. It's been over 12 years since I developed this protocol. I have not come across any treatment program that is as comprehensive as it is.

If you have foot pain, heel pain, tendinitis or muscle spasm of the calf or foot, then you may have plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendonitis. In the book I fully explain the comprehensive treatment protocol including:

· Home treatments

· Medical office treatments

· Questions to ask your doctor,

· There is a one page handout of the treatment that you will be able to print and use as a reminder. This is the same handout that I give my patients.

Click on the links below to learn more details.

Chapter 1 - Chiropractic

Chapter 2 - Arthritis

Chapter 3 - Headaches

Chapter 4 - Sciatic Pain

Chapter 5 - Tendonitis & Bursitis

Chapter 6 - Cold vs. Heat

Chapter 7 - Knee Pain

Chapter 8 - Plantar Fasciitis & Achilles Tendonitis

Chapter 9 - Shoulder & Arm Pain

Chapter 10 - Ankle Sprain

Chapter 11 - Sports Injuries

Chapter 12 - Exercise (to Rehabilitate Injuries)

"I am an ultra-endurance athlete that is consistently abusing my lower body. After experiencing foot pain at the end of an ultra-marathon, I went to Dr. Bruce to see why my foot was hurting. He explained to me that I had Plantar Fasciitis and that with his step-by-step program in his book he could have my foot feeling good again. After 2 weeks of the in-home treatment illustrated in his book my foot felt so good I climbed Mt. Whitney without any pain."

Kevin Manning, Moreno Valley CA

Your book was very informative and best of all it was easy to read and the information and instruction was easy to follow. The chapter on cold and hot therapy answered many questions that had always been confusing to me.

My 38 year old daughter has a bad case of planter fasciitis and is implementing the procedure that you have outlined in your book.

Mary Ellen Padgett age 68

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Do you have Plantar Fasciitis or Achilles Tendonitis and your doctor told you that you are just going to have to live with your pain? Do your feet "kill" you in the morning when you first walk on them?

Do you have Plantar Fasciitis or Achilles Tendonitis and your doctor told you that you are just going to have to live with your pain?

Do your feet "kill" you in the morning when you first walk on them?