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Larry Jaques Larry Jaques is offline
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Default plantar fasciitis

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:53:50 -0500, the infamous "__ Bøb __"
scrawled the following:

I treated mine by standing on a home made wedge-shaped plywood thingie
with my heels at the low end and toes at the high end. Do this several
times a day for a few minutes at a time .. it helps to stretch the
inflamed tendons, making them more resilient and flexible.


If that's the case, I need to do plenty of lunges in soft-soled shoes
every day. It's the front of my foot, the ball, where the fascia is
tender. Luckily, it doesn't hurt to stretch that.


Over time, it just went away, but it hurt like h3ll every morning for
several months.


I built one of those in LoCal but failed to bring it with me. Time to
diagonally saw another piece of oak flooring, or I could build a pair
in the rocker style they're now selling. http://fwd4.me/Bf3

Where's that narrow jarrah piece I saw, and how can I clear a way to
my bandsaur this week...?


I do need to stretch both my achilles tendons and hamstrings more
often than I do. Hell, I can no longer touch my toes with fully
straight legs.

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