Heel pain is a common – but painful – foot condition that many people face. Frequent heel or arch pain is often caused by plantar fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation in the foot. The most common symptoms are stabbing pain, tightness, or aching. Your symptoms may flare up when going from sitting to walking.
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This painful condition can impact your quality of life and ability to do daily activities. The good news is that physical therapy can treat plantar fasciitis. In fact, it’s the least invasive and most effective treatment. Here’s how physical therapy treats plantar fasciitis.
How PRO Therapy Treats Plantar Fasciitis
Identify Causes and Triggers
The very first step of your physical therapy process with PRO Therapy is figuring out what caused your plantar fasciitis. Many factors could be contributing, such as foot structure, improper foot support, extended activity, and uneven walking/running surfaces.
The advantage of speaking with a Doctor of Physical Therapy at PRO Therapy, is that we are experts in assessing plantar fasciitis and will help you discern the root causes of your symptoms.
Additionally, once we know the causes we can easily identify the triggers that are causing your pain to flare up. Knowing your triggers helps you avoid movements in the short term that trigger your pain, and helps us create a long term plan to address these triggers.
Create a Personal Care Plan
Our physical therapy treatment plans for plantar fasciitis are always customized to each person and their lifestyle. Your physical therapist will consider the causes, your triggers, your ability level, and your daily activities to create a care plan.
Often, this includes treatment approaches to reduce pain early in the plan of care that can include soft tissue mobilizations, joint mobilizations, and dry needling. Pairing that with appropriate exercises that may include strengthening, stretching, and balance training that is individualized to your symptoms and needs. These approaches, as well as appropriate modifications are used to reduce irritation with activities such as exercise, morning routines, and other activities, reducing pain in the short term and increasing activity as quickly as possible.
No treatment is a one-size-fits-all solution, so that’s why it’s important to set up an appointment directly with a physical therapist to discuss your options. This includes assessing your range of motion, strength, balance and changes that can be made to reduce symptoms. There are many different experiences with plantar fasciitis, that’s why we create an individual based treatment approach to each patient and tailoring it to your needs.
Your care plan will also include a complimentary foot scan to determine if customized shoe inserts would be beneficial to long term relief. At PRO Therapy, your doctor will help determine if custom foot orthotics are needed during your initial physical therapy evaluation.
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Aim for Long-Term Relief
What makes physical therapy at PRO Therapy such an effective treatment for plantar fasciitis is that we focus on long-term relief, not just alleviating symptoms. By uncovering the root causes and creating treatment plans around them, our physical therapy plans will resolve your heel and/or arch pain in the long term. This helps prevent the need for costly and invasive surgeries down the road with the goal of getting you back to doing the activities you love to do pain-free!
If you want to make physical therapy a success, partnering with one of our physical therapists is going to help you avoid future pain and resolve current pain.
Physical Therapy With PRO Therapy
At PRO Therapy you will always experience precise, caring, and one on one care from a Licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy – no tech aides, no rehab assistants, no personal trainers – to help you decrease pain by the time you walk out the door of your first session and create a plan to adhere to going forward.
If you want to make physical therapy a success, partnering with one of our Doctors of Physical Therapy is going to help you avoid future pain and resolve current pain.
We Love to Help People:
- Keep Active – So you can run after your kids all day, take your grandchildren to the park with ease, enjoy a nice round of golf, run or walk anytime that suits you.
- Stay Free From Painkillers – So you’re not always reaching in the cupboard for pills to ease the pain whenever it strikes, getting only a “quick fix” when you need a “permanent fix” – PLUS they’re no good for your long-term health, “mask” the pain and certainly don’t actually do anything to fix the problem.
- Avoid Dangerous Injections/Surgery – We’ll help you get to the root cause of what’s going on – so you don’t have to get to the point of having to face injections or surgery.
- Found Out What’s Wrong – We’ll help give you peace of mind and ensure that your problem is “corrected” and “healed” properly – also give you a set of exercises perfectly catered to you to help speed up recovery.
- Get More Enjoyment Out Of Life – So you can enjoy quality time with family and friends that your daily aches and pains steal from you – also finally get a good night of sleep without constantly tossing and turning.
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Are you ready to make physical therapy work for you? Give us a call and try our complimentary phone and in-person consultations. We aim to meet our patients wherever they are in their journey and answer all questions we can to ensure a smooth experience at PRO Therapy. Let us help you make the best decision for you!
PRO Therapy is an Independently Owned Orthopedic Physical Therapy Clinic. At PRO Therapy, we treat back, knee, neck/shoulder, ankle/foot, and hip pain as well as sports injuries, surgery rehabilitation, and anything else that’s causing you pain. We want everyone to have exceptional care, better access to care and be able to complete the activities in life that make them happy – free from a life of painkillers, injections, or surgeries.
Do You Want to Be in Less Pain?
Maybe you’re left feeling Confused? Skeptical? Fearful? Anxious? Depressed? You’ve sought advice from other healthcare professionals, maybe even a Physical Therapist in the past, but nothing they seemed to say or do helped solve your problem.
