Plantar Fasciitis Surgery, a year later little recovery and now arthritis

by K


Hello, I had my Plantar Fasciitis surgery in July 08.

The surgery and recovery went the same as Elizabeth's for the first few months.

Very slow total recovery for walking normal again. The worst part of that was I still have a lot of pain on the top of my foot.

Went back to the doctors, had an MRI, and now I'm told that the entire top of my foot is filled with arthritis, and I am still in pain as of today.

I'm sorry to give you not so great news.

Swelling and inflammation after more than a year.

I didn't realize I can still be bothered by this?

I was told the metatarsal joints are filled with arthritis now. Or so the MRI said.

Also not only the top of my foot but the joint between the top of my foot and my leg also hurts all the time.

Can you explain any of this to me. Thank you.




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Joshua Comments:

K, I'm sorry you're experiencing not so great news.

So you all of a sudden have arthritis in the top of your foot? That makes me wrinkle my brow. Pain and inflammation, sure, but 'arthritis', like a death sentence?

Hmmmm.

I wonder what else is going on.

Still, it makes a certain amount of sense. Depending on what exactly they did during the surgery, they changed the structure of your foot.

Your foot structure is designed to hold you up and move you around. When we go mucking with that structure, all the force and tension and leverage and pressure and motion, etc, all shift.

And that's easily not a good thing. It's possible that due to the strucutural changes in your foot now all those factors are forced to focus on the joints you describe.

Make joints grind together with too much force, and they will get irritated and develop arthritis.

That's one explanation.

You could be gluten intolerant, that causes auto-immune disease/chronic pain conditions.

Possibly the joints are really inflammed, but it's not arthritis in the sense of permanent messed up.


Let's investigate:

1. Are you prone to arthritis?

2. How old are you?

3. Overall health?

4. Weight/height?

5. How's your digestion?

6. How's your energy levels?

7. How much protein would you say that you eat?





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Dec 13, 2010
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by: Mike in WI

Like K, I have had PF and had a fasciotomy in my left foot in Jan 2008. My right foot was done in Jan. of 2006. My PF started in '96. I've gone through all the cortisone shots, orthodics, therapies. After the surgery in 2006 on my right foot, I noticed my foot tries to bend outward now, but no pain in heel. Same thing occurred with the left foot.

With the left foot I tore a ligament and had to have 12 weeks of therapy. The therapy worked out very well for me. I have no pain in my heels from the spurs that still remain there, but always a numbness in my feet and very tight calves.

I tire easily while working during the day with soreness in the feet.

What do you think could cause this numbness?


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Joshua Comments:

Hi Mike.

Ultimately, I think it's due to a dynamic of the entire compartment of structures in the back of your lower leg being WAY TOO TIGHT.

Imagine that you have 100 muscle fibers in the back of your lower leg. And now, 90 of them are constantly firing, and you nervous system has set that to 'normal'.

So your muscles are constantly working, constantly tired, constantly pumping out waste product and irritant, etc.

And the connective tissue is shrinkwrapping EVERYTHING. Tightly. And that includes extra tension down into the feet etc.
Oct 28, 2009
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starstarstarstarstar 		PART 2 - Some answers - Plantar Fasciitis Surgery, a year later little recovery and now arthritis
by: K

You could be gluten intolerant, that causes auto-immune disease/chronic pain conditions.

No, I don't think so.

Possibly the joints are really inflammed, but it's not arthritis in the sense of permanent messed up.
I have taken anti inflammatory medication and cortisone shots, which either of them did not help.


Let's investigate:

1. Are you prone to arthritis? How do you know?
I've had surgery on my shoulder and the doctor
said he removed some arthritis, and now what I'm told about my foot.

2. How old are you? 47

3. Overall health? good

4. Weight/height? 5'8", overweight

5. How's your digestion? fine

6. How's your energy levels? good

7. How much protein would you say that you eat?Between green leafy items and meat and beans, I think enough.

I do plan to make another appointment with the doctor to go over my next options because being only 47, something need to be done to correct this.
Thank you
K


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Joshua Comments:I agree K, it's worth it to start looking for the cause of this.

There surely is some underlying cause of arthritis dynamic at play, which was likely irritated in the foot by the change of structural dynamics.

Keep us updated!


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