About treatment of plantar fasciitis using kinesio tapes.
1. The diagnosis is: very often high arches and the first 2 - 3 steps after rest cause severe pain. If plantar fasciitis is chronic, other changes may occur: shortened calf because of walking on the ball of the foot.
2. Cortisone will only give short term relief - the mechanical effect remains. Surgery is not advised.
Taping will support the arch.
3. So the treatment is a combination of taping technique plus a specific exercise program.
4. Therapist will apply a stripping high force friction massage along the longitudinal arch from the upper joint to the middlefoot. The patient should be warned of the severe pain this massage will cause.
Also the patient must perform at home "auto-massage" and to use the "frozen bottle" massage.
5. Above treatment may continue twice daily for up to 3 weeks.
Patients hate the treatment but love the results.
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