Sore Backfoot Heel Help

[Boyderoo]

I waterski a few times a week usually 2 lots of 6 course passes and have noticed this summer that I have a slightly tender Backfoot Heel its a bit sore first thing in the morning and then eases up, it never hurts when I ski . Is this a known sensitivity ie common problem associated with being old and starting up in the summer after a 6 monthish break?. I should add that I'm 59yrs old otherwise Fit and not overweight or any other known problems . I am learning the course trying for the outer buoys at about 27 so theres still a bit of a wake to bump through , maybe my skis to flat crossing the wake? or maybe i'm pushing the back of the ski down ? or maybe I'm just getting old and knackered :)

Boyd

[BraceMaker]

Kind of sounds like plantar fasciitis and you're just associating it with skiing.

[A_B]

 

Skiing has a way of tightening up muscles and tugging on your tendons differently. I would be doing calf raises on the edge of a step and heel stretches, toe against the wall and lean into it, to help loosen that up. I had plantar fasciitis, probably from other stuff, and stretching is the way out of it.

 

Come to think of it, there isn't much I haven't had! This sport beats the stuff out of you after a while. We were just talking about how as we near 60, a lot of guys have dropped out from the physical (mental as well) punishment. We think its a good punishment!

[cragginshred]

In the PT clinic the likely course of treatment would be ice and sub maximal stretching, both calf (in all 3 planes of motion -runners type dynamic stretching) as well as plantar fascia.

 

Also us e a frozen water bottle rolled back n forth on the bottom of the involved foot.

Also try icing the Achilles.

**Your Achilles is likely being tugged on by the soleus and gastroc musculature always being in a stretch position in rear foot on ski position. This is putting a lot of pressure on the Achilles which is a rope like non contractile tissue that can and does rupture. A good sports PT assessment of how tight your Achilles is would be a good idea - if it is close to rupturing that would be not be good.

 

Let me know how is goes,

Don

[Boyderoo]

Yep googled it , and been for a walk in the welsh hills yesterday today Both Heels are painful Yes Classic Textbook symptoms not a rapid cure either cushioned soles for a few months and exercises :(

[Boyderoo]

Thanks for the Heads up advice certainly dont want any ruptures had enough downtime over the last 2-3 years from sports related injuries need to start taking things more carefully now