What is Plantar Fasciitis Exercise?
Plantar fasciitis is a foot disorder usually felt as pain in the bottom of your foot around the heel. There are around 2 million new cases of this disorder reported each year in the USA only. That pain especially hurts the first thing in the morning when you try to get out of bed, or after sitting for awhile. This pain is caused by an injury of the fascia band at the bottom of the foot. This tissue is called the plantar fascia and it connects the heel bone to the toes. Mostly this injury is caused by overload of the foot. Plantar fasciitis remission time can be very long because the overuse of the foot is a part of the patient’s daily habit and the foot gets injured again and again. The foot is a very complex mechanical structure. Each foot is assembled from 26 bones, 33 joints, more than a 100 muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves. The human foot system is even more complicated and is changing in every individual. The plantar fascia band part in the foot mechanism is to keep the foot
