Quote Originally Posted by spokewench View Post
It has helped. Most of the pain has gone away in the arch/heel of my foot. What I have noticed now and this may have been the culprit all along, is that my achilles gets really tight and starts to hurt some and the outside of my foot has started to hurt now. I'm not sure if the achilles being tight caused the plantar fasciitis first and that maybe the orthotic which has a good arch support pushes the weight of my body more onto the outside of my foot and caused the outside of the foot pain?

I'm thinking that maybe I should go to get a custom orthotic made. This, however is rather expensive, so I am wondering if you think this would help?

spoke.
Knott really does more with orthotics than I do but the first thing I'd say is that you may be getting an over correction. Ways this can happen include putting an orthotic that limits pronation into a shoe that is also designed to limit pronation. The other thing that happens is that sometimes people put orthotics into shoes without taking out the originial insole first.

Tight calves strongly contribute to plantar fasciitis so keep stretching them. It's also a good idea to massge your calves out using a rolling pin works. You just roll it up and down. You can also buy "the Stick" or the trigger point releaser that you roll your calve on. Or you can roll on a ball or food can. You put the ball or food can on the floor, lay your calf on top, lift your body weight up with your arms so that your supporting yourself on your hands and the contact with the calf and move your bum forward and backward to create a rolling action.

Here's a link to a thread from a while back with tons of plantar fasciitis stuff.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ntar+fasciitis

Hope that helps.