Typical Symptoms of Plantar Fasciitis Include:

• Sharp, severe pain under the foot when taking your first steps in the morning

• Pain can start to reduce as the day progresses, but then increases again in the afternoon or evening

• Pain worsens when walking barefoot or wearing soft, flat and cushion shoes

• Increased pain after activities like walking (bushwalking, beach walks, hiking), working or playing sport

• Acute pain after long periods of rest or inactivity

• Pain when walking up or down stairs or hills

It is not possible to 100% guarantee medical treatment for any ailment. But, yes! We do have a 90-day Refund Policy. If you have followed the Kraedl Treatment Plan provided for 90 days or more without any signs of improvement, please contact us.

If you are complying with instructions with no results, we will happily provide a full refund.

Some people are more susceptible to Plantar Fasciitis if there is a natural hereditary bio-mechanical defect in the foot structure. However, it can be easily kept under control with our Kraedl Treatment Plan and (ICD’s). Understanding the ailment, it’s causes and how your lifestyle can affect it helps a lot. Many people find it never returns.

Plantar fascial pain is a micro-fibre tear of in-elastic tissue (fascia). During the night the fascia cools and contracts. When you take your first steps in the morning the fascia bears weight again and it has no give. As we stand and step forward we further tear the fascia tissue. After a short time the tissue warms and the pain eases, but later in the day repetitive or excessive strain builds pain and inflammation. Creating a repetitive cycle of pain.

The Kraedl Treatment Plan will provide a guide on how to best manage your morning starts.

This form of icing advice is sadly misleading. Plantar fascia pain is a micro-tear of in-elastic tissue (cannot stretch). If you rest your arch on something hard with leg weight bearing down, it will just aggravate the tear even more.

Our Kraedl Treatment Plan has a successful proven alternative for icing.

No, weight is not a cause. It only contributes once you have the ailment. Under-weight people and children can have plantar fasciitis. The main cause of Plantar Fasciitis is hereditary and covered on our Home page.

Assuming your shoes are ok. Whilst running, feet are warm and the weight transfer from heel to toe-off is rapid. Hence the plantar fascia is not under the same stress as walking slowly. But, as you cool down the tissue contracts again and pulls causing pain. This will delay the healing process. Running is another contributing factor, but not the cause.

Explosive reaction sports eventually will cause the pain to become acute and impossible to tolerate. Unlike a muscle strain, you cannot run, train, sprint and get better at the same time with plantar fasciitis.

The Kraedl team (contact us) have personal experience in this area and are happy to answer any further questions regarding running and exercise with Plantar Fasciitis.

Cortisone is a powerful steroid and pain blocker. Overuse can lead to fascia rupture. Cortisone does not treat the root cause. Internationally Cortisone has been rejected as a treatment for plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendinitis for many years.

Early in your game the foot is warm, so the fascia has some give. But over time all the walking (up to the tee, down and up out of bunkers, hills, undulating surfaces) puts excessive strain on the already torn and inflamed tissue. When you rest tissue contracts and medically cools down. That sharp pain is a micro fibre tear.

Using our Kraedl ICD Insoles and daily treatment plan, pain will gradually start to decrease.

Shock-wave therapy was developed over 20 years ago to break up kidney stones and surgery scar tissue. There is no medical evidence anywhere proving the efficacy of treating torn, inflamed fascia tissue with shock waves. It can be painful, with skin reddening and swelling. Overuse may damage soft tissue and rupture the plantar fascia. It cannot address the source of the plantar fascia strain.

Relaxing calf muscles relieves general strain on a plantar fascia. But, step stretches are too aggressive. As the heel lowers down there is increased tension on the fascia. The plantar fascia is an in-elastic fibre, it cannot stretch and is aggravated.

Contact us for gentle, passive alternatives.