Solve Foot Pain Through Physical Therapy
Foot problems though common are confusing. They are a part of the body which we use constantly yet when there is an injury, it is confusing to try and treat. At physical therapy, we teach you how to stretch and strengthen your entire foot so that you can overcome common foot problems.
There are three pillars of treatment at Cross Bay Physical Therapy that we teach you when it comes to recuperating from a foot injury. They are deep tissue massage, strengthening, and stretching. As experts in our craft, we help our patients not only heal damaged tissue and break up interfering scar tissue but also strengthen all of the foot muscles to create a strong foot that will less susceptible to future injuries.
Icing and heat treatments are also essential to decrease inflammation of the foot but with our three pillars, deep tissue massage, strengthening, and stretching, the foot is molded into one of strength and resilience.
Here are a few ways that we use all three to help you heal your foot problem:
- Deep tissue massage - Massage techniques break up scar tissue in the foot that causes causing tightness and weakness. They get the foot back to their normal shape where they then can be strengthening and stretched without interference. One technique is to rub your feet looking for crunchy scar tissue and spreading this tissue out as not to harden into one spot. Deep tissue massage also creates renewed blood flow that actively repairs damaged tissue.
- Stretching - In all cases of foot injury, there are tightened muscles that need to be relieved or else foot tissue will continue to move in a direction of pain and injury. By stretching, we create a loose and natural environment for the foot heal properly again bringing muscles, ligaments, and tendons back to their original shape. Tight muscles produce a process and momentum of atrophy that at our physical therapists reverse to strengthen weak foot muscles.
- Strengthening - This is often the most confusing part of a foot injury. Many of our patients do not understand how to strengthen the subtle muscles in their foot that get rid of the weakness. A weak foot is easily susceptible to pain and injury especially because the feet is always being used. Exercises like balancing on one’s ankle or flexing the plantar fascia band will produce a strong foot that can handle the daily pressures placed on the foot.
Our physical therapists will not only help you recover from an injury by strengthening your foot but also give you a better understanding of how to keep your feet strong to prevent these types of normal injuries from happening in the future. Foot weakness leads to injury and we show you have to maintain foot strength as a habit in your life.
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Call 718-835-0084 and schedule your appointment today! Let’s get rid of this problem quickly and get you back on your feet pain free!
By Benjamin Bieber