Trying to live your life with plantar fasciitis is not fun. And it’s especially not fun when you look for plantar fasciitis exercises and plantar fasciitis treatments, and they don’t help and, a lot of the time make it worse. Check out this video on how to overcome Plantar Fasciitis and reclaim your mobility, which will cover the main cause of plantar fasciitis, what is traditionally done, and the best way to overcome it.

Plantar fasciitis is a pain in the foot, literally the foot. It’s a sticking in the inflammation process of the different soft tissue layers in your feet, causing a lot of bottom of your foot pain and towards your heel pain. I’ve heard of some cases taken up to a year to get rid of, and some people always still have it around. But, that’s because the approach that most people take to correct these things isn’t totally the best thing to do.

So, I want you stay tuned. We’re going to talk about the best way to look at how to train and treat your plantar fasciitis. Greetings I’m Ekemba Sooh. I’m the owner of Solcore Fitness. It’s a therapy and fitness company. I’ve been in this field for almost 30 years. So I’m a therapist and trainer, which if you haven’t heard, it’s like a physical therapist but much more detailed, and it’s underneath the osteopathic discipline of which I’ve been studying for quite a while now.

I’ve had quite a bit of success treating plantar fasciitis. It’s because I took a holistic method on it to where prior to that, people took a allopathic, symptom-related type treatment or excess protocol, and that’s not the best. So, I’m going to talk about the holistic approach and that’s what I talk about on this channel is a holistic approach and etiology, the cause. I want to treat the cause, not the symptom. So you want to hear more about this holistic cause-based system, then subscribe to the channel. If you like this video, give a thumbs up and don’t forget to share with your friends.

As I said at the beginning, plantar fasciitis, a inflammation process in your layers of soft tissue and fascia and feet, and a lack of sliding process. They get stuck. Because of this, you get pain. So I don’t have flow, like I’m pinching a tube, then that pressure builds and if my tissue, which should slide upon each other, it should slide, becomes stuck, but I try and move that also develops more inflammation process.

This inflammation, like all inflammation, leads to pain and this is especially damaging to plantar fasciitis, because you got to walk. So whenever you walk, you keep pissing it off and keeping it worse. These layers of soft tissue I keep talking about are a lot in your feet. So, at your feet, you have three layers of fascia on your feet, as you can see with these pictures I’m going to be putting up. You have a top layer that goes left to right or right to left. You have a bottom part which goes front to back. You have a middle layer which goes front to back, but also a bunch of different directions. These three layers should slide upon each other. They should move.

All soft tissue, and if you eviscerate your organs, should slide on a watery substance, fascia liquid. So it should move, it should be even. The problem is that when it gets stuck, and that’s where plantar fasciitis comes in. These three layers of fascia attach though to the back of your leg, namely your Achilles tendon. Your Achilles tendon also has a bunch of different layers. The two main layers we’re going to talk about today are the layer to your soleus and your gastroc, your calves.

But not the muscles, the fascia that surrounds these muscles, because it’s the fascia that surrounds these muscles that connect to the plantar fascia, and then connect up to your hamstrings, namely your bicep femoris, which is your outside hamstring. Again, the fascia of the bicep, and then that goes up to your [inaudible 00:03:17], your butt, which goes up to your back, up to your head, out to your arms.

This is what I’m talking about, a holistic approach is not just a plantar. Sure, you have pain in the plantar, but where in that chain do you also have issues that can be contributing to the plantar? So you don’t have to be a genius to understand that a plantar fasciitis is a lack of sliding on the soft tissue and lack of flow. You need to restore the sliding process and restore the flow.

So sliding process, obviously, you need those different layers of fascia and muscle to slide upon each other. When I say decrease the flow, I’m mainly talking about the flow of liquid through your fascia. Your fascia has little collagen tubes, little things that go through it. It is not inert, it’s a living tissue. It’s very, very important and it’s a big focus on how I work with people. So you have to increase that flow within that tube, because that flow brings nutrients to that area, takes away waste and helps keep you everything nice and smooth.

Current techniques to treat plantar fasciitis are Graston technique or aggressive technique like that. Some sort of myofascial release, either with a ball or a roller or by hand, heat and stem, strengthening or stretching. What else is there? I think I’m missing something. But, these techniques fall short because mainly, they’re not addressing the body holistically. They’re focusing on just the symptom, just the foot, just what’s happening, and that’s not how the body works. The body is interdependent, interconnected, and part of the reason people have pathologies is because your body’s lost the ability to do this.

So, if you go to try and find treatment for your plantar fasciitis and that person wants to do Graston technique, run the other way. I wouldn’t wish Graston on my worst enemy and I would never, ever do to my body. It is way too traumatic to the body. Graston is a medieval-looking piece of metal that they push into your tissue and scrape it up and down, like they trying and peel paint off the wall. I’m not quite sure why they do that, but it gives you the opposite effect of what you want.

If the goal is to increase the sliding process and the flow of liquid through these fascial collagen tubes, well, then pushing a piece of metal that smushes the tissue down and crushes the tubes is the exact opposite thing you want to do. My most current case of plantar fasciitis, she did that first at a physiotherapist. That made things a hundred times worse. It wasn’t until we took this holistic approach that she got better.

Now, if you go do myofascial release, it’s not as aggressive, but it’s very similar to the outcomes you get from Graston, just not as traumatic, especially if you’re using some sort of tool. So I see people roll their foot on a ball, a little ball, with pokey things on it, or on top of a roller. They’re doing it, because they’re trying to treat the symptom, which is the pain in their foot. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. I don’t know. Sometimes if people feel relief, that’s great, but it’s not going to correct anything, because again, you didn’t increase the flow, you didn’t increase the sliding process, and you traumatized the tissue.

Heat and stem, heat, I mean, I guess it’s okay. It brings some liquid, some heat to the area, but it doesn’t work with the sliding process, it doesn’t work holistically. A waste of time for me. And cold icing should only be done for the first 12 to twenty-four hours of having an injury, never afterwards because cold stops the inflammation process, which will make you feel no pain, because you’re on ice. But then it stops the good inflammation. Inflammation is your first line of defense to heal your body or to correct some sort of virus. Now, if I’m stopping that process, then I’m stopping the process of healing.

There’s other forms, like acupuncture, which I’m not acupuncturist, I don’t know the techniques, but, in terms of increase in flow and energy through the body, sounds fantastic, sounds like something you should do, but you need to do it with an exercise protocol and treatment protocol to help increase the chain that I keep talking about.

Have you had or have plantar fasciitis? What treatments have you tried? Have they worked? Have they not worked? I’d love to know. Put them in the comments and then stay tuned for how I approach plantar fasciitis. So how have I found success working with plantar fasciitis? I’m going to tell you here in a little bit, but I’m going to give you a little asterisk here. First and foremost, this is not a prescriptive thing for you to follow at all. This is not me showing you a bunch of exercises and things to do, and then you go on home follow them. Because you’re not just, you’re however many people are watching this video, and each person has a different body which each person would need to be addressed specifically.

Two, each one of these things I’m going to go through needs to be taught with factors of progression. When you exercise, you’re retraining the body, you’re retraining the body, because the soft tissue always wins and so you want to tell it to do something different. Well, each person needs to be taught a little bit differently on how to do each one, because each person has different areas that are smart and not smart, to be general. So I can’t give you an outline to follow, sorry, but not really sorry.

So, the first thing I do with people is I give them exercises. I give them holistic exercises. I give them holistic stretches, which is called myofascial stretching. The myofascial stretching is stretching not just the muscle but the fascia and the fascia, which connects the whole body. I first give them the soleus and the gastroc, because as you remember at the beginning of this video, I talked about how the soleus, muscle soleus and your gastroc, your calf muscles, are part of your Achilles tendon, which go down into your foot, which connect to those three layers of plantar fasciitis.

So when I give them these stretches, most people, just by these two stretches, get, I don’t know, 50, 67% relief just for these two stretches. But I don’t stop there because, again, I’m addressing the body holistically and because it was gastroc and soleus don’t stop at your knee, they attach the back of your thigh, to your hamstrings, namely your bicep femoris. So I give them a mild fascia stretch for the bicep femoris. Usually it’s pretty good, but because that chain goes up to the head and out to the arm, I maybe give them stretches for their glute max deep and superficial, for the latissimus dorsi, for the transverse spinalis. All that can be part of your chain for your plantar fasciitis.

As they’re doing that, because that’s the most important part is to always do homework, to retrain the body, I also give them therapy. Therapy includes, like I said at the beginning, working with those three layers of fascia in your feet. That’s the most important part. I want to unstick and increase the flow of those three layers of fascia. It feels really good when you get it done right. I work with those three layers and I can tell once it was released, boom, but now I work up the body. I want to work with that fascia of your lower leg, which is naming your fascia curies, up to your leg, your thigh fascia, maybe even your IT band, all the way up to your body.

By doing these general protocols, I get a lot of success, but there’s some things that derail that success, I want you to listen. So when somebody comes into me and they have plantar fasciitis, the first thing I say to them, and the pun is definitely intended here, is that you’re going to literally take two steps forward and one steps back in terms of your progress. Because, after I give you that treatment I just talked about and I give you the exercises, as soon as you step off the table or start to leave my studio, you’re ruining the progress, because you’re stepping on the ground and you’re decreasing all that flow and movement that I talked about.

You got to walk around, so it’s not that you can flow, but that’s going to set you back. Being overweight is literally going to, again, excuse the pun, crush the fascia, because now you have excess weight that’s pushing harder down on your feet, that even just standing or moving around, you’re putting more pressure, putting more, pushing the tissue more together, crushing the tubes more. The footwear people wear really screws up plantar fasciitis.

And the big shoes people wear now, these big Hoka-looking things, actually aren’t good for correcting plantar fasciitis. If you got to wear them, if you have to wear them because your feet hurt, then you got to wear them. But if the goal is to increase that movement and increase that flow, then putting a gigantic padding where nothing moves, it’s not going to help it. Again, if you’ve got to do it, because you have pain, do it. But, you need to find a way to let your feet move.

Your feet, all those joints and ligaments and muscle in your feet should move and have a job. The more I take myself away from being barefoot, the less my feet do their job. So you need to find some way to slowly let your feet move more, therapy and exercise help, but you also have to do some good movement patterns. Having bad movement patterns also, like I said, increases plantar fasciitis, because your body doesn’t move well, having bad posture, and having not a lot of muscle.

So I said before, to stretch a muscle, you need a muscle. And so, especially with an ectomorph or anybody who doesn’t have muscle tissue in these areas you need to work, you need to also do some strengthening. But don’t just jump in and start doing calf raises. Like I said, well, I don’t know if I said it, but your calf, I didn’t say it, your calf splits in two. So this is a big thing here. Your calf splits in two to go different direction. It bifurcates. So we see these calf stretching of keeping the foot in one position. That’s not correct. It needs to turn out toward the inside calf or turn in toward the outside calf.

The soleus is straight. So you can see you have three different directions you need to move your foot to work three different muscles. You need to work your upper body wherever you need muscle, your bicep femoris, your latissimus, it doesn’t matter. You need to have that muscle so you can properly stretch it. This is how you want to approach the body, not just with plantar fasciitis with anything, and not just for pathologies. Even if you’re just looking to strengthen your body better and get more mobile, you have to take this approach because the exercises and things you do for your body keep you functioning.

If it keeps you functioning, it means it keeps you away from dysfunction, which is pain and mobility. But it also can take you further into higher functioning, exact same exercises. So all those exercises I told you for plantar fasciitis will take you away from plantar fasciitis, but also towards a really functioning plantar fasciitis, calf, hamstring functioning. You get stronger, get more mobile as you keep doing the exact same exercises.

So, if you liked what you heard, if you want to hear more, and I got some options for you, I’ve got a free Facebook group. So in the description below, I put a link to my free Facebook group, and it’s a more interactive group to where I talk about master classes and I do interactive challenges where I show you things too. And I do mini trainings and just interaction with the group. So just click on a link, answer some questions, agree to the terms, you’re in.

If you don’t want to participate in that, then you can have a free ebook. It’s on how to get mobile, get less pain, and live a life of your dreams. It’s four steps. Again, in the description, click on it, put your name and information there, you get instant access. Or, if you’re ready to talk more about how this program can help you, then use the link in the description to schedule a time to book with me. We can talk about what you’re doing, what’s your sticking points, and how it can help. And I’ll only bring up my services if I feel you’re a good fit, no other time.

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Everybody puts so much emphasis on January 1, but if you really want to succeed in the new year, you should consider it in terms of lifestyle changes and learning. Not adding things to your to-do list.

Remember that nothing magic happened at the stroke of midnight that takes us into 2024.

The magic comes from within YOU.

And you might find it helpful to think about the whole year as a long story to enjoy, rather than just the first few days of the year, pinning all your hopes on them.

Over the course of the year, a few things will happen:

👉🏽 You’ll do well sometimes

👉🏽 You’ll struggle sometimes

👉🏽 You’ll realize that something you pursued really wasn’t what you wanted after all

👉🏽 And your consistent behavior over time will drive your results.

I promise! All those things will happen sure as spring follows winter. And the last one is the most important.

But like any good, long story, your 2024 needs a strong opening. Focus on developing the right mindset, on tapping into the power of your emotions, and crafting a variety of goals that will compel you forward, while also giving you room to adjust as you go.

✅ 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣? 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 12 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙨?

✅ 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙜𝙤𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘, 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚-𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙, 𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙈𝘼𝙍𝙏.

✅ 𝙁𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨.

✅ 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜-𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢 𝙜𝙤𝙖𝙡𝙨, 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩-𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢 𝙜𝙤𝙖𝙡𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨.

✅ 𝙁𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 – 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨, 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨!

✅ 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝, 𝙚𝙭𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙚, 𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨.

✅ 𝙋𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢.

✅ 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙩.

Prepare mentally for the beginning of the year. Don’t try to solve every issue at the beginning. Your goal is to make slow improvements and LEARN along the way. Rely on your calendar, marked with those long- and short-term goals, to keep your perspective clear.

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🌟 Are you tired of living a life dictated by fear and conditioned responses? It’s time to break free and embrace the incredible power of deciding who you want to be! Join us on this transformative journey as we explore the liberating concept of living authentically and crafting your best life on your own terms.

🚀 In this empowering video, we delve into the importance of self-discovery and making choices that align with your true self. Discover the pitfalls of living in a state of fear and how it can hinder personal growth, creativity, and happiness. Let’s dismantle the limiting beliefs that hold us back and replace them with a mindset focused on authenticity, purpose, and fulfillment.

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Deciding who you want to be instead of reacting from fear and things you don’t want in your life or that you want in your life is a much better way of going about things. So right now, at the time of filming, it’s the end of the year 2023, and most people are taking stock and what has happened in the previous year or years and what they want to happen in the next year. But unfortunately, a lot of that comes from fear. And that fear leads to lack of appreciation or gratitude as to the journey they just went through. And then a knee-jerk reaction based on conditioned fears and responses into what they want in their life. So I’m Ekemba Sooh the owner of SolCore Fitness, and I use a holistic model here for training and therapy and holistic means. Part of it is mental, emotional.

You want to really connect to mentally, emotionally, what you want in your life so that you’re not just going out and doing a random exercise because of whatever you think is going to happen or going to do some random treatment or whatever, because you want somebody to fix you because you don’t want to feel the way you’re feeling. So I’m going to talk about deciding who you want to be today, and it’s much more effective than reacting from fear. Most people go about setting goals or intentions or resolutions, if you want to call ’em that from a place of conditioned fear. They think they’re operating from themselves, but they’re not. They’re being driven by a conditioned response. That conditioned response is an accumulation of thoughts and feelings that’s helping over your life that you now believe is you. And so they may think that, oh, I’m operating from instinct, but that’s generally not the case.

Most people think instinct is the same as reacting from the emotions, and they’re totally opposite because an emotion is a condition existence. It’s who you think you are, not who you truly are at your core. So when you go about making these resolutions, you’re going from one fear state to another. Oh, I don’t like my body because of this. So I when go over here and do this with no reason why or where it’s coming from and no examination, it’s going to leads you to this yo-yo existence and actually not moving forward very much at all. You haven’t learned your lesson to move forward, but by deciding who you want to be, you’ve taken that time to think about, okay, what is it I want in my life? And then when something comes up, you examine it. Okay, why do I want that? Why do I want to have X, Y, Z? Why do I want to do that? Where’s that coming from? Because now if you examine it, one, you can get to more of the true idea of what it is you’re feeling, and you can take steps to move towards an outcome that’s more holistic, not just a knee-jerk reaction by deciding who you want to be. You’re not being proactive. You’re being an active

Participant in your life. You’re not waiting around and stuck in a conditioned emotional mental response paradigm. We’re not going along life just reacting to things. By being proactive, in my humble opinion is more where you want to be in this life. We’re not here to just find some track that we think we should be on and then have people tell us what to do and just react as we go along. We’re here to open ourselves up to who we want to be, to what we want to do and to a space of learning. And as we continue along that journey, then those things that we want in our life will come about, not the reverse. You don’t look at, Hey, I want this in my life. And then they have no process of learning. You go, I want to be this person. And those things start to come about.

This is life. This is the process we’re on. I know that everybody has the potential to do this, and I know because you’re still watching, and if you feel any sort of pang of resonating to this that you can start doing this now. Take some time with this. Go out and journal, walk in nature, meditate, commuine with nature, all the above and more. And then really try to connect to who do I want to be and also why? And then write it down and don’t second guess yourself because it’s not a right or wrong answer. You’re not being tested. You’re just starting this process or continuing this process. I don’t know where you are, but now you’re writing these things down. Who would I want to be and why? And then you’re going to go forth now and you can try and find solutions from this place, not the other way around.

Not searching on any internet and just connecting to whatever marketing message or personality that you see on the internet and going, oh yeah, they’re going to save me and this is going to get me. No, no, no. You’re coming from a place of like, this is who I want to be. This is why. And then we go to search. You go, Hey, this looks like it might help me on my journey. This looks like it’s a good avenue. And again, it might not be right, but it’s right in the process of learning. So it’ll always be right in the process of learning. You may just have to adjust as you go. But again, that’s life. If you want to have a little more support on this and you’re not too afraid, write what you found down in the comments below. I have no judgment towards it, and don’t worry about other people. Think about it as me and you talking. Put it down there. I’ll be there to support you. I know you can do it, and I want to see you succeed. I want you to have a great new year or whenever you’re watching this, and I’ll talk to you next week. Take care.

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