tennis ball?

I used a golf ball which seemed to help the discomort and it finally cleared up. I also took an
empty two liter coke bottle, filled it with water and froze it, I would roll my foot over that for a
few minutes and stick it back in the freezer, that also seemed to make it feel better. Tennis ball,
golf ball, coke bottle, whatever works. I would probably shy away from baseballs though, you know
the Kobe Bryant thing and all that.

In Marine Corps boot camp I suffered a stress fracture in my left foot which, eventually, turned
into plantar fasciitis. The Navy Corpsmen (physical therapists) that were my docs at the time gave
me the same advice about using a ball to roll my foot over. It does work, but you just have to give
it a little time. They also made us ice the area as well for about fifteen minutes at a time a
couple times a day.

Andrew

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So, I have this chronic tendonitis of some sort, obviously...plantar

fasciitis,

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or something like that...just always have had it, for years, apparently.

And,

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it manifests itself in my toes, so that the tendons in my toes are just

all

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messed up. I have just recently understood that it is all tied into that tendon in my arch, and
when I roll my foot on a tennis ball, oh yeah, it

hurts

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so good, I think...in that the tennis ball just really gets in there to

the

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root of the problem. I could almost howl when that tennis ball gets into

a

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certain groove, and when I continue to roll, it just really screams "YEAH,

you

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idiot, this is what's WRONG with you!" (not ever having doctor tell me

that

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was my problem). But, the question, after all this is this: am I doing

harm

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to the tendon (as in whatever tendon there is that is the plantar

fasciitis

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tendon when I roll my tennis ball in the arch, into the groove where it

hurts

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like this...or, am I loosening something up, and thus, what I am doing is

GOOD

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for it? Anyone? Thanks!

Mary

If only her ailment made it difficult to type...