Kelly Olynyk has plantar fasciitis, won't play in Canadian national team

[droopdog7]

The good news is he won't be playing for Canada.  So he is taking the right approach.  From there, all we can do it is hope.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Not worried about it at the moment, particularly being the off-season. We'll see later on.

I hope so.

This is too annoyingly familiar. Please, nagging injuries, end with the KGP era. One of the few annoyances of the KGP era.

Ditto. Can we just have a few seasons where there are no major injuries?

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

He'll be fine, he has time to rest and don't forget these guys have the means to afford the best help available. I'm sure now that he can rest and get treatments he will be fine. Noah had to play, he didn't have the luxury of sitting back and healing. This doesn't alarm me at all, they will probably do some treatments on him that us regular folks wouldn't know about b/c of how much they probably deal with this sort of thing. I'll only be worried if 2 months from now he still has the issue and can't play.

[clover]

I had it for a couple years.  Yeah getting up was a pain and those first few steps but after you get going and get all the healing torn back out it didn't affect me.

I finally got a boot that let it heal in a stretched out position for a couple days and it was gone.  Lived with it for two years and all it took was a couple days off and a $50 boot to fix.

I'm not going to lie, that boot was absolute torture though.

Sounds like you caught yours early and had a mild case.

[nickagneta]

Didn't this effect Kendrick Perkins for well over a year a back before the Big Three era and cause him to miss a a bunch of games and limit his ability to play effectively?

Long term its probably not an issue but this could be a long year for the kid if he is fighting with plantar fasciitis while also trying to condition himself to playing basketball twice as many games in a season as he is used to.

[LB3533]

Big guys like Noah and KO may have flat feet (I am not certain of this, just my estimation).

People with flat feet will have less of an arch in their feet and thus the fascia will be in a default state of stretching. With each step the tiny fibers will experience "micro tearing".

Wearing sneakers (to play basketball etc.) which have too much rubber at the heel side causes more forceful impact to be absorbed at a concentrated area.

Another factor is muscle contraction and prolonged tightness. With each step during running or each jump for a rebound or shot, the calves will contract and if they do not get a chance to relax this causes a baseline state of constant muscle tightness. The prolonged tightness irritates the Achilles tendon causes it to tighten and pull on the heel.

So imagine, each time you take a step and you are on your tippy toes there is a pulling direction one way and each time your calves contract (Achilles tighten up) there is a pulling direction going in the opposite direction.

This is where the fascia becomes aggravated. Without prolonged rest there is no way for the muscles to relax, no way for the Achilles to rest and no way for the fascia micro tears to heal back up.

Things you can do without going to see a health care pro:

1.) Rest

2.) Do not wear sneakers, in fact do not wear anything, go bear foot as much as you can.

3.) Build up the arch in the feet, use a golf ball, tennis ball, ping pong ball, even a beer bottle and roll those things under your arch.

4.) Heating pad and massage to relax the calves and reduce the burden on the Achilles tendon

5.) Nutrition and re-hydration, when we sweat and urinate we lose water/fluids, and we also lose minerals, vitamins etc. We got to replace those nutrients lost and I am sorry gatorade and other sports drinks are really bad for you and don't cut it. Drink 16oz of filtered spring water with a half tea spoon of sea salt to get some trace minerals. Coconut water is a good one too. Eat fruits and veggies. Eat meat to get complete proteins for repair.

Without proper nutrition, without re-mineralizing and re-balancing the electrolytes the body will have a tendency to stay on the contract side instead of the relaxed side.

[clover]

Big guys like Noah and KO may have flat feet (I am not certain of this, just my estimation).

People with flat feet will have less of an arch in their feet and thus the fascia will be in a default state of stretching. With each step the tiny fibers will experience "micro tearing".

Wearing sneakers (to play basketball etc.) which have too much rubber at the heel side causes more forceful impact to be absorbed at a concentrated area.

Another factor is muscle contraction and prolonged tightness. With each step during running or each jump for a rebound or shot, the calves will contract and if they do not get a chance to relax this causes a baseline state of constant muscle tightness. The prolonged tightness irritates the Achilles tendon causes it to tighten and pull on the heel.

So imagine, each time you take a step and you are on your tippy toes there is a pulling direction one way and each time your calves contract (Achilles tighten up) there is a pulling direction going in the opposite direction.

This is where the fascia becomes aggravated. Without prolonged rest there is no way for the muscles to relax, no way for the Achilles to rest and no way for the fascia micro tears to heal back up.

Things you can do without going to see a health care pro:

1.) Rest

2.) Do not wear sneakers, in fact do not wear anything, go bear foot as much as you can.

3.) Build up the arch in the feet, use a golf ball, tennis ball, ping pong ball, even a beer bottle and roll those things under your arch.

4.) Heating pad and massage to relax the calves and reduce the burden on the Achilles tendon

5.) Nutrition and re-hydration, when we sweat and urinate we lose water/fluids, and we also lose minerals, vitamins etc. We got to replace those nutrients lost and I am sorry gatorade and other sports drinks are really bad for you and don't cut it. Drink 16oz of filtered spring water with a half tea spoon of sea salt to get some trace minerals. Coconut water is a good one too. Eat fruits and veggies. Eat meat to get complete proteins for repair.

Without proper nutrition, without re-mineralizing and re-balancing the electrolytes the body will have a tendency to stay on the contract side instead of the relaxed side.

I think you're right on a lot of this, but those with flat feet (such as I) are least able to go barefoot.  People with either exceptionally high arches or low (flat) ones tend to get PF, and those with the low ones generally can't go barefoot.

[nickagneta]

I saw a headline that said Olynyk unable to play for SMNT. Wondered if he was suddenly a Senoir Mutant Ninja Turtle.

[SparzWizard]

One word: Injuries.

[LB3533]

I think you're right on a lot of this, but those with flat feet (such as I) are least able to go barefoot.  People with either exceptionally high arches or low (flat) ones tend to get PF, and those with the low ones generally can't go barefoot.

Clover, what are you using as your footware? Merrell or Vibrams?

[clover]

I think you're right on a lot of this, but those with flat feet (such as I) are least able to go barefoot.  People with either exceptionally high arches or low (flat) ones tend to get PF, and those with the low ones generally can't go barefoot.

Clover, what are you using as your footware? Merrell or Vibrams?

New Balance when I can get away with it.

[Sketch5]

Both me and the wife had it around the same time while she was in school. She got it a little before I did.

She used some of the tools from school (she was going for PT) and tried the boot and it didn't work.

Told a deep tissue massage therapist that came in to my work about it. told me to have her come in, that he needed to work on her calves and maybe hamstrings. She did and almost over night it was better. She needed sot stretch for a week and then see him again, and it was just about all gone after that.

Same thing a month later to me, skipped every thing and went right to the message therapist, and with in a couple visits all good.

I still get it from time to time, but usually can feel it coming one and I just stretch my calves and it never gets that bad for days on in. Usually bad for a little while until I can get to stretching them well and by the next day Im good to go.

He might just have to do extra stretching. People forget he grew a ton in a short while and was working on his body at the same time. No being in the pros, he'll get better treatments for this. He just has to be more pro active with it.

 

[Prof. Clutch]

I saw a headline that said Olynyk unable to play for SMNT. Wondered if he was suddenly a Senoir Mutant Ninja Turtle.

[clover]

Both me and the wife had it around the same time while she was in school. She got it a little before I did.

She used some of the tools from school (she was going for PT) and tried the boot and it didn't work.

Told a deep tissue massage therapist that came in to my work about it. told me to have her come in, that he needed to work on her calves and maybe hamstrings. She did and almost over night it was better. She needed sot stretch for a week and then see him again, and it was just about all gone after that.

Same thing a month later to me, skipped every thing and went right to the message therapist, and with in a couple visits all good.

I still get it from time to time, but usually can feel it coming one and I just stretch my calves and it never gets that bad for days on in. Usually bad for a little while until I can get to stretching them well and by the next day Im good to go.

He might just have to do extra stretching. People forget he grew a ton in a short while and was working on his body at the same time. No being in the pros, he'll get better treatments for this. He just has to be more pro active with it.

Yep, stretching is important.  Can also be caused by lack of structural support in the foot, however, and if it has been allowed to get bad enough, that can take a long time to heal on its own, despite good stretching.

Sleeping in a boot that gives a slight stretch, rather than the usual overnight tightening, has always been what makes the most dramatic, literally overnight, difference to me.

[LB3533]

I think you're right on a lot of this, but those with flat feet (such as I) are least able to go barefoot.  People with either exceptionally high arches or low (flat) ones tend to get PF, and those with the low ones generally can't go barefoot.

Clover, what are you using as your footware? Merrell or Vibrams?

New Balance when I can get away with it.

Cool, New Balance is a good brand too, especially for transitioning from regular traditional sneakers to minimalist running shoes.

Here's a review of one of the newer models.

http://birthdayshoes.com/review-new-balance-minimus-10v2-trail-road