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Have any of you guys had iontophoresis for Plantar Fasciitis or any other area of painful inflammation? I feel like I have tried pretty much every suggested treatment except iontophoresis or surgery and nothing has made it go away. I have had it since last July. My podiatrist suggested that I try iontophoresis yesterday. I had never heard of it before.

I haven’t heard of that procedure but when I looked it up there didn’t appear to be a mechanism that would help your plantar fasciitis. When I had it and had trouble getting it to heal I went to an orthopedic surgeon who specialized in foot problems. Between her treatments (no surgery involved) and physical therapy which involved breaking down adhesions in the calf and lower leg of the impacted foot with dry needling and scrapping to break up the adhesions and scar tissue from previous injuries my problem went away. I would go get a second opinion on treatments from another specialist.

I’ve treated PF successfully using iontophoresis. Not sure how many patients but quite a few but it works. It’s usually a several treatment approach but is able to get the steroids down into the tissue.

It’s best when combined with stretching and strengthening. As a cure it’s only going to address the mediate inflammation. If the underlying cause of the PF isn’t addressed it will have a high probability of come back.

I went to a physical therapist for about 20 treatments of deep tissue laser therapy but that didn't help.

Two exercises cured mine in about 6 months. I do them every day now to keep it from coming back

Try this first, can't hurt and usually helps after a few days. It really takes a year or so to get over this sometimes. If standing isn't doable then while sitting with your feet on the floor place the lacrosse ball under the arch of your foot.
Lean forward, putting weight on your affected side and slowly roll the ball back and forth along the arch of your foot for about a minute or two twice a day.

You can also use an old coke bottle (the small one). The ridges in it really help the massaging affects. Works for me anyway.

Good boots cured mine.

Mine is gone.

Here's what I did.

Talked to podiatrist buddy, he told me not to get the custom orthotics, go buy the spenco ones at a sports store. Wore those pretty religiously for 3-4 months.

I was also cutting some weight and eating clean, guess what? My foot got better. That pro-inflammatory diet is a thing. Eliminate carbs, sugars, etc.

I started running again. It would ache sometimes, but was getting better. Now I don't even remember I had it until someone reminds me.

3 gallons of water in a 5 gallon bucket with 2 frozen pop bottles. Keep your foot in the cold water for a as long as you can. Make sure the foot is good and cold. Take a full hour to let it warm up without standing on it. Do this again before you go to bed. Keep it in the water for a as long as you can. Give it a full hour to warm up then take a warm shower or bath and go to bed. I had to do this for a couple of weeks but it worked. 5 years later the PF came back. The same routine for a couple of weeks.

It's been 6 months now and it has not returned. I found aspirin was the best anti inflammatory. The next best was Naproxen sodium (Aleve) take one before you go to bed. I'm doing Eliquis so I can no longer do the aspirin. I'm not supposed to do the Aleve but I occasionally cheat.

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You can cure this for good in 2 weeks or less…very easy !

I tried a bunch of different things but only got serious relief when I got custom orthotics. Every case is different

After a year of suffering with it it was fixed in 24 hours by switching to a high arch support shoe. I had done injections, exercises, etc but no surgery.

To cure mine I had to quit treating the symptom which was the pain in the plantar.

The cause was an injured/tight calf muscle. After suffering for months and taking two shots to the heel I find somebody who actually worked on the problem. I was almost pain free after the first visit and after 4 or five visits it was gone. No problems for six years.

The chiropractic doctor massaged and stretched my calf muscle. That was all it took.

The MDs just treated symptoms.

Yep. I added a night splint and inserts from Karevel shoes from Austin too. One other thing, I wear flip flops with arch support around the house.

Saddlesore, what were those 2 exercises?

IZH27, cool and thanks. I have no idea what caused my Plantar Fasciitis to begin. I was just walking on a Forest Service road like innumerable times in the past. It happened last July on my 58th birthday. I now tell people don't turn 58 ha ha.

Very helpful. Thanks so much!

This ain’t the first thread on the subject.

For me, calf stretches, kneeling like ragheads do for prayer and lay foward, massage the underfoot tendon with a hard object to break up hard tissues, Throw away any shoe supports and wear flat flexible shoes, walk barefoot a lot. Your shoes should be wide enough in the toe area for a complete spread.

Hurts like the devil at first then its gone.

I had it pretty bad. Got some shoes called Z-Coil. Spendy but put good tires on my truck too. Took some time but cured it.