In this short, Dr. Ivan Bracic, DC, clinical director at Novaré Injury Care and Rehab in Fort Myers, shows a simple stretch for plantar fasciitis. He explains that it stretches the plantar fascia, the Achilles tendon and the calf, and that stretching comes first, before the calf work he shows next.
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Video Transcript
People talk to me about plantar fasciitis, but they don't do anything on a regular basis. These are some simple stretches that you can do to really stretch the plantar fascia, not only that, the Achilles tendon, and energize that calf.
This is a great stretch, and you can do it here. And then we're going to show you another one where we're actually going to contract the calf, but you wanna start it by stretching it. You wanna stretch it to begin the mobilization process.
Great job.
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