Plantar Fasciitis

Plantar Fasciitis is a very common condition affecting the base of your foot. For anyone that has suffered this pain, it is agonisingly painful and usually frustratingly slow to progress or to improve.

Understanding your pain and possible factors that may be preventing the healing of the tissue is important, along with a solid exercise routine to promote a pattern of healing in the foot. Our physiotherapists and Osteopaths can help with hands on therapy and exercise prescription to get you back to your day to day as quickly as possible.

We will often discuss Shockwave Therapy for this condition as it is much more effective than hands-on therapy alone. The relatively new treatment method involves firing high powered sound waves (roughly 1000 times more powerful than ultrasound) into the tissue to promote a more sustained and effective pattern of healing. This will always be used in conjunction with home exercise (as this is not a magic fix unfortunately). We have found our patient outcomes to be much better since starting to offer shockwave therapy a few years ago.