An injury treatment story: Plantar Fascitis
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 | Deep Tissue, Featured, Massage, injury treatment
I had a massage client once who had plantar fascitis as well as “no cartilage in her knees.” (quotes means it’s her that said that)
She was somewhere around 65 years old at the time, and I was about 2 years into my massage career and around the age of 23. (I’m 28 at the time of this post)
Long story short: she was thinking of going into surgery because the pain was so bad.
I told her to wait and give me a try before going under the knife. I explained about excess scar tissue and the like.
She gave it a try.
After 3 sessions she barely had pain and after about 7 sessions she decided not to see me anymore because she never got the pain again.
The sessions happened over the course of about 10 months with most of them being within 6 weeks - when she first started to see me.
I thought that was pretty awesome - especially since she was like 65 years old at the time. She was on her feet a lot too - did accounting and volunteering heavily at her church.
Her knees didn’t hurt by the end of her sessions with me as well.
In Summary -don’t get surgery for plantar fascitis or for carpal tunnel syndrome, for that matter.
Try massage first.
please
for the love of god.
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