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Plantar Fasciitis Treatment Stretches

March 25, 2011 By Brent 3 Comments

If you’ve ever suffered through a bout of plantar fasciitis, you know just how physically painful that injury is and how depressing you can become.

My last plantar injury was over 15 years ago, and that one took me nearly a year to finally get fixed.

Man, that was so painful.  I tried playing a few tournament matches and was just about reduced to tears.  Crawling around the house in the middle of the night just to go to the bathroom was obviously a sure sign that I needed serious help.

One of the big mistakes I made was not doing enough specific plantar fasciitis treatment stretches.

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In fact, I was doing the opposite of stretching, I was strengthening my calves thinking that I had to get my legs stronger to be able to treat my plantar injury.

Wrong.


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The strengthening was making my calves stronger, but it was also temporarily shortening them.  Calves that are strong and not stretched out pull tighter on your Achilles tendon which wraps around under your heel and pulls tighter on your plantar fascia connection.

If anything is pulling tightly on that plantar fascia connection, you never give the inflammation a chance to heal.

So, what eventually worked for me was to finally do a set of specific plantar fasciitis treatment stretches.

I do those stretches every day of my life now.  It takes 5 minutes, and along with the ankle wraps (with an attached strap that is like taping), I’ve been able to avoid another plantar fasciitis injury.

If you’re currently suffering through a plantar fasciitis injury or if you’re concerned about getting this nasty injury, check out my recommended plantar fasciitis treatment stretches and treatment aids.

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Your thoughts?  Ever had a plantar injury?  If so, describe it and what you did to eventually overcome it.

In the Comments area.  Thanks in advance.

Brent

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Elbow Injury Pain – Are You Strengthening? – Hope Not

February 2, 2011 By Brent 26 Comments

I believe that one of the worst pieces of advice when we have a tennis or golfer’s elbow injury is to strengthen your arms and specifically your forearms.

Here’s my layman’s understanding of what’s going on with your elbow injury.

The pain is coming from the inflammation in one of your tendons that connect your forearm muscles to your elbow bones.

When you strengthen by squeezing a ball, doing curls, stretch band strengthening, etc., you might be making those forearm muscles stronger, but they’re temporarily contracting (shortening) when you exercise, and that’s simply pulling tighter on the inflammation you’ve already got.

Aggravating that inflammation - we don’t want to do that…


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Currently going through the pain of an elbow injury?

Have you tried strengthening?  What’s been your experience?

Let me / us know below in the Comments area.  Thanks in advance.

Brent

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Heals His Shoulder & Wins The Tournament!

June 17, 2010 By Brent Leave a Comment

I’m obviously always pleased when I hear from one of the WebTennis subscribers who says they’ve recently improved their game from either one of my lessons or tips.

But when one of my injury treatment products helped another tennis player, it’s equally as sweet to hear from them if not more.

And then to read that not only did the shoulder get better, but wow, they guy just won a tournament!

Hi Brent,

I have been a frequent visitor to your site and picked up your rotator cuff stuff last year when my shoulder was bad. Took a few months to recover but good to go now.

Your comments are very valid on keeping calm and hanging tough in a match. I just defended my over 45 singles title at the Veterans Irish Open here in Dublin at the weekend.

It was mentally so much tougher to win this time around because of the expectation.

I won my final 6/4, 7/6 and it was a dogfight and it felt pretty ugly …but, as you say, and for me, better to win ugly than lose!

We sometimes forget that tennis is also very much about that mental toughness.

It is a discipline which merits constant attention and investigation.

I read an interesting essay on autosuggestion by Emile Coue the week before playing and it helped a lot. If you would like I will send you the e-book by e-mail. I don’t think I can attach it here.

Good luck with your tennis for the rest of the Summer.

Ray Mc Ginley

If you’re currently nursing an injury, check out my injury treatment programs that I’ve produced.

Let’s get you back out there on the court soon at 100% and ready to take on the world for your bext tournament victory!

Brent

Filed Under: Tennis Injuries, Tennis Injuries - Rotator, Tennis Lesson Success Stories