Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains plantar fasciitis treatment starting with stretching, night boots, and rolling your foot on a frozen bottle. He warns steroid injections can rupture the fascia and cause deformity, and says PRP and laser therapies often work better.
Oftentimes we'll start with stretching exercises, maybe a boot that you would wear at night or a brace. We've had extensive experience treating plantar fasciitis with PRP and with laser therapies. That oftentimes is extremely effective and can get your plantar fasciitis better pretty quickly. Typically takes a lot longer than two weeks to improve what we call recalcitrant plantar fasciitis or plantar fasciitis that lasts longer than a couple of months. Oftentimes we'll start with stretching exercises, maybe a boot that you would wear at night or a brace that there's some at home remedies like frozen ice bottle that can work really well rolling your foot on that. But at the end of the day if you need an injection or an intervention, steroid injection in this case would be the wrong thing to do. Steroid injection into this area can cause a rupture of your plantar fascia which then can lead to a foot deformity. In all, steroid injections pretty much are not beneficial in my opinion. In plantar fasciitis.
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