Are you in tons of pain from plantar fasciitis and want a guide to fix it for good? Plantar fasciitis Survival Guide is a concise and scientific approach to beating your plantar fasciitis by yourself. Information is in a step by step layout with tons of pictures to show you how to fix your heel pain. The program is a combination of "soft tissue therapys" to address the many causes and perpetuating factors associated with plantar fasciitis. Most people see results even when they have had plantar fasciitis for months. This program is also great for getting results that last, and prevents the heel pain from coming back. check out: www.pfsurvivalguide.com

Do your feet hurt and you don’t know why? Do you have issues with your shoes that cause your feet to hurt at the end of the day? Have you given up running or wearing high heels, or had to cut back on your favorite sport?

If you’ve tried everything but still have pain from plantar fasciitis—inflammation of the tissue that runs across the bottom of your foot and connects your heel bone to your toes—this book will show you how to find relief without simply masking the pain. Real Help For Plantar Fasciitis contains a wealth of information to minimize your suffering with sound, proven solutions.

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The burning. The sore heel. The pain of those first morning steps. When you suffer from plantar fasciitis, even the simplest tasks can seem unbearable-and the treatment can often feel as frustrating as the ailment itself. However, treating plantar fasciitis doesn't have to be a slow and painful process. In most cases, in fact, treatment can be simple, inexpensive, and highly effective. Dr. Colin Dombroski has helped thousands of patients alleviate plantar fasciitis, and now he draws on his personal experiences and painstaking research to provide a comprehensive guide to managing, treating, and preventing PF without breaking the bank. In The Plantar Fasciitis Plan, Dr. Dombroski identifies and explains causes, symptoms, and risk factors for plantar fasciitis; teaches PF sufferers and doctors home-healing techniques; and delves into treatments for cases of PF that are harder to cure. Along the way, he'll provide tips for staying active, advice on spending the least to get the best results, and pointers on making the most of any treatment. Plantar fasciitis can be a painful, distressing, and debilitating problem-but thanks to Dr. Dombroski, it doesn't have to be a permanent one.

Are you in pain? Icing/Stretching not working? Frustrated? I know that feeling all to well. After going to countless doctors for multiple chronic injuries, I took matters into my own hands. I have suffered with Plantar Fasciitis for 3 years, two torn shoulder labrums, a rare neurovascular disorder called "Erythromelalgia" and much more. No where I turned seemed to give me pain relief. Then I got tired of it. I started to read every single study about my injuries I could get my hands on. I found that "soft tissue mobilization therapies" gave the best results without drugs or surgery. I experimented on myself and my friends/family for years until I made my own sequential therapy. This therapy is called "MSTR Therapy." It is a special way of using a combination of soft tissue mobilization therapies, in a specific order, to fix chronic injuries that do not want to heal. This therapy has fixed thousands of people already when applied to plantar fasciitis. Now you can use it for chronic injuries all over the body! Welcome to MSTR Therapy!! By using this book, and some simple tools that can be made or purchased online, you can fix your pain! This is without the awful side effects of drugs/surgery. This therapy makes sense. When you read how it works (from reading the first couple chapters), you will understand how/why chronic injuries can be fixed. Positive thinking and hope only get you so far, lets fix what's causing the pain and move on!

This book is about empowerment for chronic pain patients and care providers alike. Every chronic pain condition has a treatable myofascial trigger point component, including fibromyalgia. Many of the localized symptoms now considered as fibromyalgia are actually due to trigger points. The central sensitization of fibromyalgia amplifies symptoms that trigger points cause, and this book teaches care providers and patients how to identify and treat those causes. Chronic myofascial pain due to trigger points can be body-wide, and can cause or maintain fibromyalgia central sensitization. Trigger points can cause and/or maintain or contribute to many types of pain and dysfunction, including numbness and tingling, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, plantar fasciitis, osteoarthritis, cognitive dysfunctions and disorientation, impotence, incontinence, loss of voice, pelvic pain, muscle weakness, menstrual pain, TMJ dysfunction, shortness of breath, and many symptoms attributed to old age or "atypical" or psychological sources. Trigger point therapy has been around for decades, but only recently have trigger points been imaged at the Mayo Clinic and National Institutes of Health. Their ubiquity and importance is only now being recognized. Devin Starlanyl is a medically trained chronic myofascial pain and fibromyalgia researcher and educator, as well as a patient with both of these conditions. She has provided chronic pain education and support to thousands of patients and care providers around the world for decades. John Sharkey is a physiologist with more than twenty-seven years of anatomy experience, and the director of a myofascial pain facility. Together they have written a comprehensive reference to trigger point treatment to help patients with fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, and many other conditions. This guide will be useful for all types of doctors, nurses, therapists, bodyworkers, and lay people, facilitating communication between care providers and patients and empowering patients who now struggle with all kinds of misunderstood and unexplained symptoms. Part 1 explains what trigger points are and how they generate symptoms, refer pain and other symptoms to other parts of the body, and create a downward spiral of dysfunction. The authors look at the interconnection between fibromyalgia and myofascial trigger points and their possible causes and symptoms; identify stressors that perpetuate trigger points such as poor posture, poor breathing habits, nutritional inadequacies, lack of sleep, and environmental and psychological factors; and provide a list of over one hundred pain symptoms and their most common corresponding trigger point sources. Part 2 describes the sites of trigger points and their referral patterns within each region of the body, and provides pain relief solutions for fibromyalgia and trigger point patients and others with debilitating symptoms. Pain treatment plans include both self-help remedies for the patient—stretching or postural exercises, self-massage techniques and prevention strategies—as well as diagnostic and treatment hints for care providers. Part 3 offers guidance for both patients and care providers in history taking, examination, and palpation skills, as well as treatment options. It offers a vision for the future that includes early assessment, adequate medical training, prevention of fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, changes to chronic pain management and possible solutions to the health care crisis, and a healthier version of our middle age and golden years, asserting that patients have a vital role to play in the management of their own health.

This comprehensive textbook brings together a unique vision and multidisciplinary approach – embracing and combining MD, DO and DPM foot and ankle training disciplines – into a singular focus on improving and mastering surgical treatment of foot and ankle disorders. It opens with a chapter presenting the specific preoperative considerations and protocols commonly followed by foot and ankle surgeons of all specialties. Divided into three main thematic sections detailing the forefoot, midfoot and hindfoot, each subsequent chapter follows a consistent chapter format presenting case examples, key surgical set-up and equipment needs and step-by-step clinical pearls for surgical excellence. Post-operative care and rehabilitation recommendations are also included for a well-rounded presentation of care from start to finish. Both common and complex pathologies and injuries are discussed, from bunion and hammertoe management to the Charcot foot and ankle, total ankle replacement, arthroscopy and arthroplasty techniques, amputations and biologics. Generous figures and intraoperative photos illustrate the procedures in vivid detail. The subspecialty of foot and ankle surgery is a highly specialized one, which is constantly evolving and improving. This speaks to the complexity of the foot and ankle complex, the multiple levels and articulations of the foot and the variety of pathologies encountered. This textbook leans on the unique experience and training of the OFAC attending surgeons and past fellows to reveal the pearls and keys to the efficient surgical treatment of the full gamut of foot and ankle pathologies. Ideally suited for residents and students whether MD, DO or DPM, Essential Foot and Ankle Surgical Techniques - EFAST for short - is a dynamic, multidisciplinary resource that covers the full range of pathologies and injuries an orthopedic surgeon or podiatrist would encounter in daily practice.

Chronic foot problems are pervasive in modern societies and people see them as a congenital or inherent part of being human. That is wrong! You can fix your feet and avoid future problems with my step by step program. The program can reverse many foot disorders permanently.

Designed for health care professionals in multiple disciplines and clinical settings, this comprehensive, evidence-based wound care text provides basic and advanced information on wound healing and therapies and emphasizes clinical decision-making. The text integrates the latest scientific findings with principles of good wound care and provides a complete set of current, evidence-based practices. This edition features a new chapter on wound pain management and a chapter showing how to use negative pressure therapy on many types of hard-to-heal wounds. Technological advances covered include ultrasound for wound debridement, laser treatments, and a single-patient-use disposable device for delivering pulsed radio frequency.

Generalized hypermobility has been known since ancient times, and a clinical description of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is said to have first been recorded by Hippocrates in 400 BC. Hypermobility syndromes occur frequently, but the wide spectrum of possible symptoms, coupled with a relative lack of awareness and recognition, are the reason that they are frequently not recognized, or remain undiagnosed. This book is an international, multidisciplinary guide to hypermobility syndromes, and EDS in particular. It aims to create better awareness of hypermobility syndromes among health professionals, including medical specialists, and to be a guide to the management of such syndromes for patients and practitioners. It is intended for use in daily clinical practice rather than as a reference book for research or the latest developments, and has been written to be understandable for any healthcare worker or educated patient without compromise to the scientific content. The book is organized as follows: chapters on classifications and genetics are followed by chapters on individual types, organ (system) manifestations and complications, and finally ethics and therapeutic strategies, with an appendix on surgery and the precautions which should attend it. A special effort has been made to take account of the perspective of the patient; two of the editors have EDS. The book will be of interest to patients with hypermobility syndromes and their families, as well as to all those healthcare practitioners who may encounter such syndromes in the course of their work.

Reduce or Eliminate Chronic Muscular Pain With These Gentle Exercises Live Pain-free Without Drugs or Surgery offers a practical, proven, easy-to-follow program (Integrated Positional Therapy) to reduce and even eliminate chronic muscular pain in only minutes a day through simple exercises and movements that anyone can do. Developed by neuromuscular therapist Lee Albert, NMT, Integrated Positional Therapy (IPT) incorporates techniques such as Strain/Counter-strain, Muscle Energy Technique, stretching and home care to re-align the body's structure and relieve pain caused by structural imbalances. IPT effectively treats pain patterns caused by injury, stress, repetitive strain, postural distortion and chronic neuromuscular conditions. Written in a clear and user-friendly manner, Live Pain-free Without Drugs or Surgery includes detailed descriptions and photos of the exercises as well as online videos to make the exercises very easy to follow at home. The book offers valuable information on basic body care along with individual treatment protocols for eleven of the most common conditions that cause people to seek medical attention: Headaches Neck and shoulder pain Low back pain Knee pain Fibromyalgia Tennis and golfer's elbow Carpal tunnel syndrome TMJ Plantar fasciitis Thoracic outlet syndrome Sciatica Thousands of patients and students from all over the world have benefited from Integrated Positional Therapy. Now you can benefit in your own home from the same simple program for permanent relief from neuromuscular pain without surgery or drugs.