Hi, fellow PF warriors!

Hi, fellow PF warriors! I’m a few months into this, am in PT and am doing the calf stretches/strengthening and balance and foot exercises. My pain is bearable in my Birkenstocks, but, unfortunately, I can’t wear them at work or in my volunteer position. My PF pain is the worst in supportive shoes (Altras) with my Powerstep insert. I must have a wide toe box, so some shoes are not workable for me. Has anyone else experienced this? Kelly Townsend What are everyone’s opinions about being barefoot/wearing footwear indoors? Iv had flat feet pain and planta in both feet now for a year. Doing the exercises, customised orthotics and now they’d like me to do shockwave therapy. I’m a bit hesitant about that as some people have said it’s made their pain worse and I’m trying to see what else I can do to help. Iv looked into getting a foot sleeve, calf massager, multivitamins ect and Dane Burmester Read This… Your feet have 26 bones in your foot, 19 Intrinsic muscles and approx 20 extrinsic muscles and tendons. Your feet have muscles Pamela Lindeback Not sure who this may help but I’m putting it out there. I started swimming, slowly. It was the only thing I could do to not feel pain in moving. Then I started water aerobics in 4’ of water building an invigorating routine. I have worked up to deep water aerobics and my PF foot and joint pain elsewhere has reduced over 50%. Lori Rasmussen Hi everyone! 4 year PF sufferer here… Today marks 6 weeks since I had my plantar fascia embolization procedure (PFE). I waited until now to share my results because I wanted to have more confidence in the level of pain reduction I am experiencing. I have been in excruciating pain for four years. I tried everything. Followed doctors orders to the T-PT, orthotics, shockwave, cortisone shots- this list goes on and on. I made t PeacefulQuince6962 Does anyone know of anything I can do overnight besides night splint and stretches that could help me prepare for the next day on my feet? I own a restaurant and am constantly on my feet on concrete floors. I feel like I have tried all the shoes and insoles and have even had cortisone shots that didn't seem to do me any good. I'm just looking for advice. I've been going through this for over 2 years now and kind of just want to amputa Shaneen Lyon Calvo If you’ve plateaued in your healing and can’t seem to stretch out those last little vestiges of PF pain, a percussion massager (I think) did the trick for me. I went almost 2 years with PF that included being “healed” after about a year, only to experience two micro-tears after starting to run again - putting me out for another year. Two years of trying almost everything to get my foot back to normal. After it started to feel more like an ache or a bruise instead of a shar 8 hours ago 12 hours ago 18 hours ago 19 hours ago 21 hours ago a day ago a day ago a day ago a day ago a day ago a day ago Learn More 2 days ago 2 days ago Learn More 2 days ago 3 days ago 3 days ago Learn More