It starts as a twinge of pain on your heel every morning you step out of bed and onto the floor. And by the time you’ve walked around for a few minutes it’s gone. Except as the weeks go by, that little annoying pain seems to last longer and longer. You think it’s all in your head, and before you know it, it’s a throbbing pain severe enough it leaves you limping every time you exercise and have to put pressure on your feet.

For an avid runner, that pain is debilitating. It happened to me in September of 2008. I consulted with other runners, massage therapists and foot specialists, and the diagnosis was the same: plantar fasciitis.

I tried everything, deep tissue massage, traditional rehabilitative therapy, and orthotics of all kinds including an awful, enormous orthotic boot I have to wear to bed at night that keeps my foot propped at a ninety degree angle. Its purpose is to keep the muscles in my foot and calf from tightening up which is partly what leads to the heel pain. Well, after a night wearing that, my foot feels better in the morning, but the rest of me is exhausted because I didn’t get a wink of sleep.

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