So for some context, I have been dealing with PF since last march. I was finally able to get my podiatrist to give me steroid injections about a month and a half ago. It took awhile, but my pain actually got much better and I was optimistic. Then this last Monday I was taking a short walk and felt a huge pop in the bottom of my foot. I’m having trouble walking or bearing weight on it, but there is minimal swelling and no bruising. I have burning, throbbing pain periodically, more so with activity. I took a trip to urgent care and the x-rays were normal. Does anyone have any experience with this?
So my plantar ligament in my left foot just decided to rupture this afternoon while I was taking a shower. Not walking, not exercising, nope: just showering. I felt it go, rolling up inside my foot like a little roller blind. Went to the urgent care, got a referral for an MRI next week, crutches, and a shoe to keep me from flexing my foot. Got a nice bruise and bump, and I get to keep weight off my foot for god knows how long. Fix? Probably surgical. I was JUST getting in shape again by walking a couple miles a day. Body said: NOT SO FAST! Le sigh. I'm so done. Just bitching, really, to folks who'll understand.
My condition started when a jump I performed landed the wrong way. I landed on both heels at once and I felt as if my heel bone shifted to one side. Went to urgent care and the X-Ray showed no fracture. They told me it was likely plantar fasciitis and prescribed pain medication.
I have noticed since then that my heel makes snapping, clacking noises it never did from normal motions before (I had clacking noises for years from what I assume to be tendons moved to the wrong places. But this was never pain or injury from that and it only occurred going down the stairs). I don’t think this happened immediately after the injury happened, but it did begin after a week. At least that’s when I noticed it. My initial assumption was a calcaneal fracture from how it felt. And according to Wikipedia, fasciitis and fractures are common misdiagnoses.
Has anyone been misdiagnosed? Or have experience that could help me figure out what I have? This condition has affected my mental health and I’m trying to stay strong, but the thought of this not going away is terrifying, especially as I have several disabilities that already make my life extremely difficult as it is. Some days are really hard.
The title says it all.
Anyone out there who's dealt with this? I took a massive whip on a slab a week ago to the day. Ortho diagnosed as a torn, or possibly completely ruptured, Plantar Fascia. I'll be in a boot for 6 weeks, and start PT directly following (for starters). TBH, I feel quite lucky since it was a big fall and things couldn've been far worse. I don't need surgery, and managed somehow to not fracture or break any bones. But, it does sound like this could be a nagging injury that keeps me impaired for anywhere from 16 weeks to 8 months. Does anyone have some experience and insight to share? A couple of questions:
- I'm hoping that I'll be able to climb sooner than later, but I also know that returning too early will be sabotaging my own recovery. Should I just resign myself to taking significant time off until the issue is 100% resolved? (I suspect the answer is yes)
- General suggestions for how to scale up hangboard training to progress finger strength w/o any climbing? Until now, it's always been supplementary 15-minute sessions alongside actual training, but I suspect that I can increase volume if I'm not climbing at all. I've been through a couple of 16 week cycles, so I have, at least, some baseline. PR max hang is 10 seconds BW + 75 lb. on a beastmaker 20mm edge.
- how early is "too early" to do some aerobic cross-training while I'm still in the boot? Doc mentioned that some light cycling in the boot may be OK, just to "take it easy". But what does "take it easy" mean? Sure, intensity is one thing — I'd keep it purely zone 1/2, but what about volume? I recognize that non-sports-specific aerobic training is pretty antithetical to climbing progression, but, in general, I really enjoy trail running and cycling in addition to rock climbing, and place a high value on maintaining general mountain fitness.
Thanks in advance for any + all insight!
PS - 1 yr. goal: break into 13a, Boulder V8 outdoors. Current personal bests are 12b (3rd go, theoretically I should be projecting something and trying harder, but here we are) and v6.
Re hang boarding protocols: I recognize that there are plenty of resources out there. If folks would be so kind to share even their favorite link rather than writing the obligatory full essay, I'd appreciate it. Thanks again!
Hi all,
I'm currently working on a project involving weight estimation from facial photographs, and I've found myself in need of some representative data. I'm looking for a dataset of frontal facial photographs (something like a passport or drivers license photograph, but not necassarially as precise as those tend to be) categorized by the nationality of the person in the photograph.
The dataset needs to include people from the states of the former Soviet Union, as that is my area of study.
Hope someone has something that can help me out
This was going to be in response to this post about What happened to the barefoot/minimalist movement?, but it became more of my story as I wrote it out and wanted to share. I am not a doctor, I'm probably wrong about everything in my life and this is especially true about my knowledge of human anatomy and running, but this has been my observation.
I absolutely loved my zero drop shoes. So comfortable and I felt my lower leg strength increase as I transitioned to them. I slowly transitioned to wearing them all the time over the course of six months. I learned that this was still too fast to wear them all the time.
I got into wearing them after studying what it takes to reduce long term injury for running. My interest was because I was coming back into running after dealing with a ruptured achilles on my left leg. I thought after being over two years after surgery on my left leg and six months of slowly building up to wearing them from a few hours a day to part of the day, to eventually wearing them most of the day.
I made the mistake of wearing the zero drops to work where I have to walk on concrete alot of the day in a warehouse. This was my mistake. I got to where I enjoyed wearing zero drops that I didn't notice that I was hurting myself by standing and walking all day on hard concrete.
Roughly two and a half years after my left leg surgery for my ruptured achilles I got plantar fasciitis on my right side. I attribute this to wearing the zero drops on the concrete at work for 8 to 12 hours a day. According to my Ortho Dr. you are at a higher risk of rupturing your achilles if you are suffering from plantar fasciitis.
Within three months of getting plantar fasciitis I ruptured my right achilles. 6 months after the surgery, I still have a limp and I am working through the challenges again of just walking longer and longer distances before I can run again.
My Ortho Dr. asked me if there were any genetic history of ruptured achilles, but there has not been. I had always had very tight calf muscles since playing basketball and (American) football since elementary school. So according to some family members who are Physical Therapists, that contributed to my risk of achilles rupture as well.
I also recently came to the conclusion that my case of ongoing yet only slight hypertension increased my risk for soft tissue injuries like achilles rupture.
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Has anyone experienced a ruptured PF? I have PF often in the forward part of my heel into the beginning portion of the arch.
Starting yesterday I have EXCRUCIATING pain in my left heel and arch. It hurts so bad to bear weight on it and even though I try not to, I end up limping. I have never had PF pain this bad before and it seems like something worse.
Does this sound more like a a ruptured plantar fascia or just really bad PF pain?
ABSTRACT
The slow-motion practice of Taijiquan, operationally, cultivates the cognitive perception of fascia tension as it is being harnessed to discipline body motion to be in accord with Yin-Yang Balance. The ideal motion that results, bestows liveliness of change and harmonizes body momentum, the hallmarks of maneuverability and force potential for performance. The paper puts forth the proposition that the manifestation of Qi in Taijiquan is primarily the cognitive perception of fascial tension in the functional efficacy of bipedal balance for performance. Though the cultivated cognition may be subjective, the process of Qi nurturing is grounded on the reduction of the errors of imbalances, which carves a practice path to balance with tangible effects. The force that arises from body motion so imbued with Yin-Yang Balance, is of the phenomenon of internal strength or neijin—consummate, of the right force vector in spontaneous response and rooted in balance. Taijiquan practice nurtures Qi for both health wellbeing and neijin as the body's core strength, depending on the practice efforts put in.
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Salut les gars.. je créé un jette au loin pour vous parler de mon histoire car je suis en train d'arriver psychologiquement à bout de tout ça et je ne sais plus comment faire pour ne pas sombrer dans la folie ou l'oubli de moi. Désolé ça fait vraiment le bon con idéalisant son ex copine, mais impossible de reprogrammer mon cerveau c'est pour ça que j'ai besoin de parler.
Durant ces 4 dernières années de relation avec ma copine, nous avons échangé énormément de choses : nos goûts et nos passions étant communes, nous avons partagé quasiment tout : de la moto aux jeux vidéo en passant par notre amour de la cuisine, etc.... Nous avions la particularité de nous intéresser l'un l'autre à nos passions respectives ce qui fait que nous avons facilement plongé et mélangé nos univers. Nous vivions ensemble, ce qui a nettement augmenté le temps passé ensemble, évidemment. Super bien intégrés dans les belles familles, bref un truc très fusionnel où on se marrait tous les jours franchement c'était le pied.
Cette dernière année c'est vrai qu'on a eu une période de creux (moins de projets communs) car j'ai eu quelques problèmes perso + une période de chômage. Et il y a quinze jours, c'est la rupture (à son initiative, elle a rencontré quelqu'un qui apparemment est plus affectueux et lui propose des nouveaux projets de vie blablabla. Le pire c'est qu'elle a été très ambigüe dans la façon de me larguer. Elle a pleuré puis elle m'a dit que j'étais celui avec qui ça collait le plus et que dans le fond on se reverrait, etc.) et là, c'est la douche froide en ce qui me concerne. Je suis passé d'un état plein d'énergie, plein d'envies, pleins de projets, ultra convivial avec mes potes et ma famille à un état larvaire où je n'ai plus aucun but, aucune motivation, aucune envie. J'ai lu beaucoup de bouquins sur la psycho depuis et je commence à me dire que je suis fortement dépendant affectif et du jour au lendemain, j'ai perdu tous mes repères et tout ce qui me construisait une identité. J'en arrive à me demander pourquoi j'ai fait des études dans ce domaine, pourquoi j'ai acheté une moto. Je ne comprends plus le sens de ma vie, je n'ai plus de confiance ni d'estime de moi et par dessus tout : j'angoisse terriblement à l'idée de me retrouver seul, la solitude est mon pire ennemi aujourd'hui je le sais.
Absolument TOUT ce que je fais dans ma vie me rappelle le bon temps que je passais avec elle où me renvoi à une époque où j'étais
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There is a section of my lower back that I can press in and out. It sort of makes it feel like all of my abdominal contents are being pulled through a hole there, that’s the best I can describe it. I wonder if it’s possible to get some sort of fascial hernia or defect? Any way to fix this?
I hope he will be back. The last couple of games looked vintage Russ and he seemed to really try and implement the quick passing game and was stepping up into the pocket more often.
Just wondering if that is a freak injury or it comes from untreated plantar fasciitis.
