What Causes Plantar Fasciitis - Foot Anatomy - Dr Gill

as someone who has been born with flat feet, I am esp. thrilled to see this video

I had plantar fasciitis a couple of years ago in both feet. In my job as a hog farmer I walk 8+ hours a day so I couldn’t properly rest it like an average person could. I would do the stretches every morning for 3 times longer than recommended because otherwise it wouldn’t be effective. I would ice my feet at least twice a day. Rolling your feet on a water bottle filled with ice is a great way to reduce the pain. There were times where it felt like it was improving and times where it got almost crippling. It also affected the way I walked because I had to over compensate for whatever was hurting the most that day. A specialist told me it would take about a year before it got better and he was correct. This video did a great job of explaining what it felt like to have plantar fasciitis, and I wish I could have seen it when I was suffering.

Who else is here for the feel of the atmosphere he creates with his voice. I have no association with Medical school but I think I've watched nearly every video. I JUST CANT GET ENOUGH

As a 3rd shift retail worker who unloads trucks and restocks the sales floor I frequently walk 20,000+ steps a night at work and with my dads knees and my moms feet/back proper shoes for me are a must because they help prevent me from dealing with this as much as a result. In addition to getting fitted for my shoes at a running store I alternate between two separate pairs of shoes everyday and I replace one of the pairs roughly every six months so that I’m always breaking one pair in while wearing the other one out and the change that those small steps had on my physical/joint health was tremendous for me that I highly recommend everyone who can to do the same! I still deal with this from time to time randomly when I overdo it but with bad genetics joint wise I’m prone to it anyways so thankfully my shoes minimize my chances dramatically and don’t make it nearly as bad as it would be otherwise.

I have worn stilettos 👠 everyday since I was 12 years old. I have royally messed up my feet. I have given myself plantar fasciitis and and absolutely destroyed my gate and center of balance. I was excited to see this video.

This Is great, i've been suffeeing from plantar fascitis for years, i feel like i'm actually getting better because i've been working Out and stretching my legs or a regular basis but still, i'm now %100 there

It’s amazing - I had this as a child and it would usually happen at odd moments of the night. My feet, sometimes both or sometimes one, would randomly ring out in severe pain for no reason for several minutes, sometimes 15, at a time. I would cry when I was younger because the pain was so bad and my mom would put a pair of my socks in the dryer and warm them for me to put on my feet to hopefully make my feet feel better. This happened from when I was a younger as I can remember until about age 10. We never looked into the causes, just extremely painful soreness for no reason until the pain went away. I completely forgot about this pain until this video explaining what it could’ve possibly been! Thanks Dr. Gill!

Dr Gill, I’ve been watching your channel since it’s inception and I still find every one of your videos entertaining, informative, and very relaxing. Please keep up the hard work, you’re amazing! As a request, could you dive into more exercise topics? Resistance training, aerobics, nutrition, recovery, joint health, etc

I have flat feet and it went untreated causing a case of joint issues and plantar fascitis so it's fascinating to watch this video and understand more about my pain.

Thank you. This is a great explainer 👍🏻

Thanks for making this video. I've been "lazy" over the last 8 yrs after almost losing a leg to a post-surgical infection. I used to run 5k per day but due to chronic compartment syndrome, I had separate fasciotomies and unfortunately the second became infected (and I got to learn what a wound vac was after multiple surgical cleanings). I've allowed myself over the years to get very out of shape, although I recovered and kept the leg with minor nerve damage (primarily due to the swelling that occurred prior to the infection... unfortunately I had an allergic reaction to the mastidol in the wound closures). Recently, I'd been having really annoying pain I wasn't familiar with. It started a few months ago and has been getting more and more frequent, and while buying a new pair of shoes today, I mentioned the issue to the individual fitting me (custom shoe shop that specializes in repairs and custom orthotics), and they immediately mentioned plantar fasciitis and showed me stretches (which sadly I was already familiar with but hadn't been doing since I haven't been running in years). After getting home I decided to watch a video and learn about it so I could hopefully begin to improve things myself without resorting to medical treatment if necessary and thanks to your video, although I will contact my primary care physician and let them decide if I should have it looked at or just wait and see if I am able to improve the condition on my own... to be clear, I'll follow their advice but I've already been increasing activity lately and been trying to get myself to where I'm running again with 6-8 months (i have quite a bit of weight to lose first), which hopefully will improve things if I start randomly stretching throughout the day.

great info Dr James . indeed if you can make another video to demonstrate how exactly to do the exercise . thx Dr

Even though this is for study for students. I found this very helpful to understand my own foot pain. I have done the measures to counter the problem outlined by Dr. Gill. And my foot pain has lessen so much in a few days. 😮 Thank you for this info. I understand it can not be credited as a doctor visit. But it gave me insight.

Very informative. Thank you Dr Gill.

Great content! My man has this problem n I been looking for content to understand

A nice, clear explanation of the pathology. In terms of treatment for plantar fasciitis, if these initial interventions fail, GPs would usually refer to a podiatrist.

i have to get surgery on my foot for planters fibroma, little nervous i enjoyed learning from your videos

I was told by my chiropractor to only wear shoes with a wide toe box as letting my toes stretch out really seems to strengthen my arches (I went to him for hip pain that ended up being caused by my foot). So far so good, although now I hate wearing normal shoes..

Thanks a doc! You rock!

Hi Dr Gill. Great vid. As a podiatrist and now physician Associate your videos are invaluable to my practice. Just wanted to point out that you say ‘palmar fascia’ twice at around 6:04 and then again briefly after. Love what you do