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    Plantar Fasciitis Has The Wrong Name
    Plantar Fasciitis Has The Wrong Name
    Plantar Fasciitis Has The Wrong Name
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    Plantar Fasciitis Has The Wrong Name

    By Dr. Kevin T. Morgan

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    Why did the author spend seven years and several thousand dollars of his retirement savings to do the research that led to this little book? Because, as a trained pathologist, researcher and life-long athlete, who suffered this horrible heel pain several times, he realized that no-one was tackling the underlying cause of so-called plantar fasciitis, which it clearly is not.

    Pathology is the study of the nature and causes of disease. Acute, often morning, heel pain is clearly a dys-ease, and so he sought and established the cause. This turned out to be an uncomfortable truth for many businesses, but the the truth none the less.

    What you will learn from this little book:

    (1) To read your body more effectively and so come to realize that pain is generally your friend rather than your enemy.

    (2) That the location of your perceived pain is often remote from its' source and thus from the road to a cure.

    (3) That you are sometimes your best physician as doctors don't know everything, especially when it comes to body movement skills (biomechanics).

    (4) To spot medical deceptions by those who falsely claim to know how to cure your morning heel pain, but most importantly,

    (5) You will learn to be more in control of your own health care, which you can then apply to other aches and pains as they come along, especially those associated with aging.

    The authors' research revealed that most advertised plantar fasciitis treatments can, (a) make the heel pain better, (b) do nothing, or (c) make it worse, sometimes much worse!

    It is recommended that you become your own plantar fasciitis treatment detective, before rushing into risky treatments.

    Think before you purchase an advertised cure from the plantar fasciitis treatment smorgasbord.

    This book includes a plea to the medical community to invest more research dollars into the study of this crippling condition. The author's nociceptive hypothesis provides guidance to would be researchers going down this road.

    The author is:

    - A life-long athlete, and currently an Ironman-distance triathlete.

    - A student of optimal body movement for many years and,

    - A veterinary pathologist with forty-years of widely published disease research under his belt.

    The author became interested in so-called plantar-fasciitis when he suffered from this condition, himself.

    OUCH! "It sure focused my attention," he says.

    He went on to determine that acute morning heel pain is a progressive disease that can lead to serious injury if you don't find the right treatment.

    The author's unexpected interest in acute morning heel pain resulted in the research adventure described in this book. He eventually realized that this problem doesn't originate in our feet. Our nervous system generates a pain response to inform us of damaging issues that lie elsewhere in our body, often in our hips. This is why for many years there has been no consensus on the underlying cause of so-called plantar fasciitis

    How you name diseases (lexical semantics) can influence treatment. This explains the dangerous cortisone heel injections so popular with certain doctors and podiatrists.

    The author recommends the alternative term, Nociceptive Foot Pain (NFP).

    To find out why and to go down the right road to find a cure for your morning heel pain, read the book. It contains multiple case studies and a plan of action.

    Be patient.

    You are the lead detective.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Thomas Morgan
    Release dateAug 3, 2018
    ISBN9781386279075
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    Plantar Fasciitis Has The Wrong Name - Dr. Kevin T. Morgan

    Plantar Fasciitis Has The Wrong Name

    Plantar Fasciitis Has The Wrong Name

    A Whole-Body Approach To Curing Your Nociceptive Foot Pain

    Dr. Kevin T. Morgan, BVSc, PhD, DipACVP

    It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

    – Mark Twain

    [ Image: Postulated Progression Fixed.png ]

    Contents

    Prologue

    Foreword

    1. Questioning the Obvious

    2. The Nature Of Science

    3. Pain Puzzles

    4. Data Collection Begins

    5. Weird Disease Treatments

    6. The Name of a Disease Can Be Critical

    7. Cholera, Plane Crashes, and Balance

    8. Disease Progression

    9. Food For Thought

    10. Tom’s NFP Treatment Strategy

    Epilogue

    Post-Script

    A plea

    Acknowledgments

    About the Author

    Books by Kevin Thomas Morgan

    Newsletter Signup Link

    Copyright and Disclaimer

    Dedication

    This book was inspired by, and is dedicated to, the memory of Drs. Ignaz Semmelweis and John Snow, who provided light in the darkness of arrogance and ignorance, respectively.

    Prologue

    One Case Solved

    It took eight years of research for Tom to work out what is going on with acute morning (runner’s) heel pain aka plantar fasciitis.

    It’s not confined to runners, by the way. This kind of heel pain is associated with pregnancy, being overweight, overtraining, poor posture, inadequately supportive shoes, and many other factors. But they all appear to be secondary to a primary cause.

    Tom’s research on responses of so-called plantar fasciitis to 20 different treatments.

    Tom’s online research, using patient surveys, demonstrated that almost all all advertised treatments have been reported to (a) heal the heel pain, (b) have no effect, or (c) even make it worse. This includes the ministrations of podiatrists and doctors.

    Tom’s research, as presented in this book, was designed to track down the root cause of so-called plantar fasciitis.

    This led to a rapid cure for Elise

    Elise was cured by Tom’s method. Here she is finishing a grueling race.

    Elise, finishing a grueling race.

    Elise is a runner who lives in Tom’s neighborhood. She is in her late twenties, and boy, can she run! She heard from a friend of Tom’s interest in plantar fasciitis, and asked for his advice. Elise explained, The plantar fasciitis heel pain in my right foot has been ruining my runs for months. The pain is worse when I run downhill, rather than uphill. Orthotics also made it worse.

    Tom instructed Elise to do as follows:

    It’s important to cure this, before you do real damage to your feet or elsewhere in your legs and hips. The trick is to change the way you move. Reaching into his backpack, Tom says, "Try these VOXXLife socks, as they will improve your sense balance. They work through receptors on the balls of your feet. There are other ways, such as changing shoe type or studying body movement, but let’s see what these socks can do for you.

    More importantly, when the pain occurs, stop and stretch your hamstrings. Carry out a regular program of rolling your calves. Focus your stretching routine on your hips and hamstrings. Combine this with gentle strength training, including single-leg calf raises as they condition your legs, hips, and core. Do everything on both sides of your body."

    Tom reminded Elise that stretching is a conversation you have with your body, not something you do to your body.

    One week later, Elise told Tom that she had managed to run 16 miles, pain free. She was delighted, in her subdued, unassuming way.

    Elise added that she liked the extra support and compression provided by the VOXXLife socks. She also said, I noticed a huge improvement when I rolled and stretched both my hips and hamstrings. I also used a Lacrosse ball to stretch deep muscles in my hips. I incorporated lunges before and after running, to stretch quads and hip flexors. The pain resolved after a week of using your VOXX socks and with your stretching and strengthening program. For the first time, I noticed that I had more tightness in my right hip muscles, including the piriformis, than on the left side.

    Elise’s report provided Tom with both encouragement and a mine of information. She is still enjoying long-distance running, pain free. Tom recently saw her steaming up a local hill, and wished he could run that well.

    Tom doesn’t have great resources, but he loves these little successes. They keep his investigations going.

    Does this mean what worked for elise will work for you?

    Not necessarily, but if you understand the underlying mechanisms of your heel pain, you will be on the right track. Tom’s been working to unravel this mystery for years. Here’s his story, which is

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