In this episode of Your Health University, Jamie sits down with Dr. Josh Thorp, chiropractor at Your Health Primary Care, to unpack the misunderstood and often mistreated condition known as plantar fasciitis. They dive into why foot pain might actually start in your hips or spine, how to find the root cause instead of masking symptoms, and what proactive steps you can take today to start healing. Whether you’re a teacher, runner, golfer, or someone who’s tired of limping through life, this episode offers real hope—and real answers.
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Welcome back to the Your Health University podcast. My name is Jamie Preston, and today's episode is going to be a oh, sorry, here we go. Sorry, I got an intro written down here. Welcome back to the Your Health University podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Preston, and today's episode is going to hit close to home. Literally, we're talking about a condition that affects over 2 million people a year but often goes misunderstood and Miss mistreated, and that's plantar fasciitis, which I have had personally. If you've ever felt that sharp, stabbing heel pain first thing in the morning after you get out of bed or after a long day of work, you know how debilitating it can be, but what if I told you the pain in your foot might not actually be caused by the foot at all. Joining me today is Dr Josh Thorpe, a chiropractor at your health primary care. Josh has a gift for connecting the dots between what hurts and what's really going on beneath the surface. He's helped hundreds of patients get back to working, to walking, to running, even dancing, hopefully without pain. And here, and he's here to challenge some long held assumptions about how we treat plantar fasciitis. Dr Thorpe, how
are you doing? I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on. Yeah,
absolutely. Well, we're gonna, we're gonna talk a little bit about something very specific that you kind of specialize in and treat, and that I think is really important. I remember was after we short, shortly after we moved to Charleston, a long time ago. This is probably eight years ago, at least. I remember having this pain in my foot, and I was like, you know, and I'm a golfer, I love and I like to walk. I don't, I'll ride sometimes, but I like to walk the golf course. And man, my foot was not doing well. I was it was very painful. And I thought, What in the world did I do in my foot? And I went to the doctor, and he said, You have plantar fasciitis. And I was like, What in the world are you? Did you just say I had no clue what that was? He explained it to me, gave me some exercises. But I think there's a lot of people that don't understand this. You know what this is and how it works. So, so Dr Thorpe, give us, give us, kind of a brief overview of what plantar fasciitis is,
yeah, let me move some things around here on my There we go. Okay, yeah. So honestly, so plantar fasciitis is one of my favorite things to treat. It's it's also, like you mentioned, a lot of times it's mistreated or just kind of poorly treated in general. And over the years, I've learned a handful of different things from here and there, and I've gotten really good results with it. And, you know, a lot of people don't think of chiropractic when they think of plantar fasciitis or that their foot hurts. Hey, let's go to a chiropractor. But this is something I've treated for years and years, and I it's really one of my favorite things to treat. So, you know, to go back to your question about, you know, what is it? So first year before we say what it is, we have to know, kind of the anatomy around it. So a plantar fascias is like a thick, fibrous tissue band that goes basically from the hind foot, from the back of the foot, to the front of the foot, so it kind of spreads into the toes. It's not, it's not a muscle. It's not, it's not, you know, just a ligament. It's not a tendon, it's it's just connective tissue, fibrous band tissue. And it helps kind of keep that foot into that arched position, and kind of keeps you that buoyancy, to help stabilize that foot. Then when you walk and when you run, it helps give you that spring in your step, and also create a lot more energy. It absorbs the energy from the ground, so it protects your foot, but it also protects the rest of your body from all the shock waves from the from the ground hitting into you and going into the rest of the body. So when you have issues there can be caused by a lot of different things. It could be, you know, sedentary lifestyle, not walking enough, not moving enough. Maybe you're wearing some, you know, some of the same shoes you've worn forever. And then maybe you decide one day you want to go outside and wear flip flops, and then all sudden, you know, now, your foot is angry at you, and you have some plantar fasciitis. And sometimes it's not so much like a, oh, this just happened right now. It's, it's usually one of those things where it takes time to kind of develop. So plantar fasciitis is inflammation of the plantar fascia, and it can look like a lot of different things. For most, for some patients, the plantar fasci goes from, like I said, the heel, all the way to the, you know, where you're essentially where your toes are. So people can have pain kind of along all along that track. And everyone has a little bit different symptoms. But you know, to go back to the medical model of it, a lot of people get diagnosed with plantar fasciitis, if they have foot pain or bottom of the foot pain, I've had patients come into me where they have Achilles tendinitis on the backside of their heel and they're told by other providers that this is plantar fasciitis. I've also had patients misdiagnosed multiple times. So you know the importance is getting the right diagnosis. So you want to make sure. Sure it truly is plantar fasciitis. You can get some sometimes patients or people can get, like, fat pad atrophy over the years, so sometimes that can cause pain. So you know, you big old, chunky fat pads underneath your heel, and sometimes, over time, they start to wear out a little bit that can itself cause pain. Some people actually have stress fractures in their heels that can cause similar types of pain and be misdiagnosed, especially for runners, triathletes, CrossFitters. And then another one that can be really misdiagnosed is nerve entrapments like tarsal tunnel syndrome and some other actual impingements on nerves that can cause very similar pain to plantar fasciitis. So the first, first step of treating it is making sure that you're dealing with it, so making sure that it's actually the plantar fascia that's the problem and not potentially a muscle issue or a joint issue or or something that's totally separate of it. So because you can beat that plantar fascip all day, and it might not change anything, right? Because,
because that's the thing, it's there's so many things. I mean, you think of the old song when I was a kid, you know, this bones connected to this bone, you know, you know, I think of that song, but everything is connected. So foot pain doesn't have to start in the foot, I guess. So. Can you explain the chain reaction that leads to plantar fasciitis, and how the spine, hips or posture might be contributing to some of these things. And, you know, talk about that a little bit
Absolutely. So, you know, as a chiropractor, or just a, you know, working conservative musculoskeletal care over the years, I try not to look at the body as a, you know, one section, one part. This is the problem. Here's the issue. You kind of have to zoom out a little bit and look at the whole body the way it moves. So, you know, I've been trained in a handful of different things to we're looking at fascial plane lines, which, you know, the the plantar fasci From the bottom of the foot, kind of wraps around the heel, and that same connective tissue is connected to the Achilles tendon, which connects to the the gastrocs, or the calf muscles, and then it goes into the hamstrings, and it goes into the glutes, and then it goes into the lower back. And, you know, microscopically, and from an anatomical perspective, when you're dissecting all these these tissues are connected. So like things aren't inter everything's connected. As you said, you know, the knee bone is connected to the foot bone, right? And it really is true. So what we're talking about is fascia. And you know, from a medical perspective, for many years, we look at things very patho anatomically, and it's like, okay, you have a hamstring issue. It must be the hamstring, but you have to look at everything above it and below it, and upstream and downstream. So, you know, when we're looking at plantar fasciitis, I'm looking at, you know, what's the foot doing? What the biomechanics of the foot? Also, you know, is your posterior chain, or, like, what I would call superficial back line. Are the calves too tight? Are the are the is the fascia and the hamstrings too tight. Do you have a lower back extension that might be pulling your hips forward, which are tugging on those hamstrings, which is tugging on those calves, which is tugging on that plantar fasci And a lot of times, in these situations, I'm a lot of times it leads back to the hips, maybe poor hip flexion or poor hip extension. We're not getting enough movement from walking. So from a treatment approach, that's what, you know, I'm kind of looking at, which we're going to touch on, I'll probably touch on a few minutes here. But the cascading effect is, you know, some, one of the things you see a lot is like, if you tug and pull in this direction, it's a big the body's a big tug of war. So, you know, you can get a little pronation of your foot if, if the problem starts in the foot, which can cause a little bit of what we call tibial rotation, which will bring the knee in, causing a little knee valgus, and hip internal rotation and lack of extension, which can throw off your hips. So as a chiropractor, I'm looking at all this stuff. So, you know, someone's hips might be, you know, unlevel. But my question is, why? Where is it stemming from? What's causing this? Is it, is it coming from the back, or is it coming from upstream, or is it coming from low stream or lower downstream? So, you know, every patient's different. Every patient is unique. But you have to be able to look at all those, all those things. You know, as a chiropractor, we're always kind of getting back to the spine. But, you know, as a chicken under the egg, it's, is it, did it start in the foot and cause problems upstream? Or did it, you know, start in the central axis of the spine and go downstream?
Yeah, wow, there's, it's just not a, it just doesn't seem, you know, that's, thank God we have doctors like yourself who who can piece all this together. Because men, you know, when I remember when I had it, I just thought, Well, I must have done something to my foot, which maybe, but who knows? Because I just went to a primary care, you know, and he, he gave me a few exercises, and that was it to do. Now, thank goodness it got better, but we didn't really get to, I think. What's the root problem is? So, you know, as as you look at things a little more holistically, you know, what are some things that people can do to maybe prevent or people that are susceptible this? I think of my sister in law, who's she's a teacher. She's a middle school teacher, and she literally stands all day long. What are some things that we can do to kind of prevent this, especially if you're susceptible, or this is kind of a recurring thing, so that it doesn't happen. Because, man, it really debilitating, especially if you're on your feet a lot.
Yeah. I mean, I'm probably going to give a little bit of a cop out answer. Everyone's an individual, and everyone's situation is different, but you know, first and foremost is, what are the biomechanics? How does this person move? The plantar fascia doesn't just sit there on itself. It has to be, you know, move, and it's dependent, totally dependent on other things. So, you know, does she have ankle issues? Does does she have knee issues? Does she have hip issues? Is she putting too much weight on her left side because maybe she had a previous knee injury or surgery along those lines. So all those things, it's kind of hard to say, Hey, this is what you can do. Obviously, you could put a little bit more cushion in there. If it's problematic. You can change up your shoes. You can take more breaks. If you can give your body a break. If you change up shoes too often and your body is confused, like if you have a lot of a heel lift in one shoe that you wear all the time, but then you change it for a flat. I know, you know, a lot of females like to wear either heels, which is one issue, so it starts tighten up everything else, or they go in the other direction. And we do a lot of flats. And flats are also can be problematic if the if, potentially there's too much pronation involved. So then it puts stresses and structure on the structures which sometimes can cause plantar fasciitis. So I'm going to give you a little bit of a cop out answer and say, you know, it all totally depends on the patient. I mean, here in a few minutes, I'll kind of give you a few different exercises and stuff that we can, you know, talk about that are, you know, pretty common for a lot of plantar fasciitis cases. But, you know, when it boils down to it's, it's trying to figure out where the weakest link in that, in that system is. And a case like yours, you had plantar fasciitis, it probably was brewing for many, many years, and then, you know, maybe something triggered it and kind of caused it, which is the common for many, many musculoskeletal issues. Yeah. So, yeah, like, I'm gonna give it back as an example, just because people come into me all the time with back issues, and they come in they say, oh my gosh, I was picking up a pencil and I threw my back out. And I have to explain to them, you know, it's not the pencil. It wasn't the it was there's the fact that you've bent over like that, you know, for the past 30 years. And that was just kind of the straw that broke the camel's back, right? So, or the pencil, I
you Sorry, I couldn't help it.
No, it's okay. So, yeah. I mean, you know, a lot of times you go to say a podiatrist or an ortho, and they typically give like, heel lifts or inserts for your shoes, and that's just kind of a band aid. It's like putting your foot in a little bit more of a cast. And the body needs movement and motion in order for those fluids and everything that fascia to live functionally and healthy. And if you put more of a like a aids on it, a lot of times it tend to, tends to just either it might feel better for the short term, but it doesn't solve the issue. So there's always this quick fix, like, Oh, let me get an injection of my heel, or let me do this. But sometimes it's just simple, like, you know, simple exercises or changes that you can do on a daily basis that can help, help improve it, right? So,
yeah, there's so it's, it just seems very complicated. It's not just a one size fits all kind of thing there. Now, Dr throbe, you work inside a collaborative care team at your health primary care. You know, how does your role as a chiropractor complement what you know? Say, like a podiatrist, and I know your health doesn't have podiatrist but, but maybe a physical therapist, you know what they do, or you know, how do those things complement? How did what you do complement these things and provide maybe a different perspective that that may work even better?
Yeah, absolutely. So. First off, you know, with your health, we have primary care physicians, and I work in an office with primary care I also work in an office with physical therapists. And, you know, it's awesome to have that ability to work collaboratively and integrated for a truly integrated system. So like, let's just say, a patient has too much pain and they can't, you know, then maybe not be able to function. So then you have your primary care physician that can give some some medications or something a little bit more than like, maybe an ibuprofen or a Tylenol, which is, is helpful, but from a from a hands on standpoint, you know, collaboratively working with the physical therapist. So there's a lot of crossover between chiropractic and physical therapists. We do a lot of the same services the way we try to use. Eliza here in office is that, you know, one of the things that I feel like I'm very skilled at, and what I've done for many years is a lot of like manual therapy, and especially when it comes to plantar fasci You know, getting in, deep into those tissues and working through some of that fascia, the muscles, you know, doing some joint mobilizations to get things moving. But then we work collaboratively with with the physical therapist here where she can, or Kelly. I work with Kelly here in office, here in cheapen, and her and I work really well together. So, you know, I'll typically do a little bit more of the hands on stuff, and then I, you know, we work together and say, Hey, this might work best for this patient. And and she'll help put together like a exercise plan and and therapeutic exercises for these patients, not only in office, but also to work at home. And we try not to do, you know, we don't do any like cookie cutter stuff. So everything's totally dependent on on their specific issue. So sometimes, you know, what I like most about working with her in our office is that, you know, there's no cookie cutter approach. You don't get put onto a a treadmill or, you know, some of the physical therapy, you know, stick where I'm looking for stereotypes, if you're and you're not going to just get a chiropractor that just pops your back, we're looking at the whole body. We're working all together integratively to try to help with your problem. And in this case, you know, it works best where, you know, maybe I do a little bit more the hands on stuff, and then she can hop in there and give these patients perfect exercises for them, for the what's going on, sure.
Now, now, kind of jumping back a little bit, because you talked a little bit about shoes, you know? And I think, you know, I remember, I used to be a sandal guy. I wore sandals all the time, but I still do every once in a while, you know, I'll put some flip flops on or something like that, but I don't, I won't wear them for long. I remember, I remember even having golf sandals. This is when I lived in Ohio, you know, and walking in golf sandals, and which I can't even imagine doing that now, but you know what? What are some kind of shoes that you should probably steer away from, especially if you're prone to this, this kind of thing.
Well, I mean, if you're prone to this, I mean, a lot of times, typically those harder shoes with no support, so like the flip flops, you know, the converse type shoes, the ones that are kind of zero drop. A lot of times, patients struggle with those you know, shoes like hocas or like typical running shoes, when you get pretty fitted, can be good. The problem is, is, if you throw an arch, if you buy a shoe that maybe has a too much of an arch, or not enough of an arch based on your anatomy, it could potentially cause more irritation. So, you know, typically, I'd stray away from like those zero drop shoes for patients like this, at least, that are dealing with this specifically right now. We're not saying they can't use them in the future, but typically steering away from flats, from those flip flops. But I've also had, you know, patients that sometimes that's the only thing they can wear, so it's hard to recognize it. But I would say, in general, I would say that those, those shoes that really have pretty much no support,
yeah, because, I mean, like, if you know, you mentioned a little bit ago, CrossFit, I know they recommend a lot of times, you know, wearing flat shoes, especially for weight lifting and squatting and wearing really flat shoes versus a, you know, something with A lot of, you know, arch support and all that, you know. So it's, there's a lot of conflicting information out there, I think. And, you know, I know for myself, I'm pretty much tennis shoes most of the time. And, you know, sometimes a dress shoe. But even my last dress shoes I bought, I made sure that they, they had more of a tennis shoe kind of feel. And it's just, just helps. And plus, I'm getting old, Josh, so, yeah, I mean, that's, that's the other part of it is like, as you age, you know, I think you have to be more mindful of what you're wearing and the foot, you know, the shoe that you're putting on. It really does make a lot of difference. Because I don't want to be sedentary. I'm not a sedentary person. And and I want to be able to move. I want to be able to go walk the golf course. I I have people all the time. You know, when I play, I'm walking and I have a cart. I'm not carrying my bag. I have a push cart that I use. But, man, people are just so surprised. I'm like, it's really not that bad to
walk. Yeah, no, I enjoy walking. And I'm gonna touch on one thing. He said, One, I used to coach CrossFit years ago. I like it, and I agree with you that sometimes they try to push for those things, but, you know, that's where you know everything in moderation. And also you have to make make sure you know your own body, and hopefully you're coached well when you're doing CrossFit, you know, if someone's been wearing a shoe with a lift in it for, you know, 40 years. And then they go into a CrossFit gym. They're like, Hey, you should get these zero drop and then they totally switch to them. You're you're setting yourself up for problems, whether it's calf problems, Achilles problems, plantar fasciitis, you know, like sometimes with those, you have to work yourself into them and train your body. It's like, it's like, going to the gym, you don't go. To the gym and lift one weight and say, Oh, I got big biceps. Now. No, your body takes time. And those, those facial tension lines, they take a long time to to to get, you know, looser, if you will, over time. So you don't just stretch once and all of a sudden your muscles are, or your your muscles and your fascia are you're not. You don't become a yogi. You know, it takes time and energy. So because these are living structures, they take time to change, and they are totally dependent on the demands that you put on it. So, but, yeah, you kind of hit something on there that I forgot to mention earlier. But, like, I am not, you know, shoes in general are are kind of put your foot into a position where they're a little bit more like a cast. So not saying, I'm going to over generalize this, but like when you break your arm, you get a cast on your arm, right? And then when you take that cast off, it's nice and atrophied. When you wear shoes all day, you kind of train your foot to be in that position all the time. So then some things atrophy, or some things don't work like they should, right? And we weren't born with shoes. We, you know, has, you know, through evolution, we have always been barefoot, right? And then over the past, how many years we've been wearing shoes? So, you know, 2000 years, sure, 25 you know, 3000 years, and it's still really new to us. So, you know, I would, I would love to be able to get people out of shoes and walking barefoot, if they can, right, not only just in their house, but you know, outside is really good for their feet, too. Not telling everybody to go walk around without shoes, but you know, it's healthy for your feet, if those intrinsic muscles working right?
Absolutely, yeah. I think that's I Yeah. I remember back in the day, people used to wear the shoes with the toes in them to kind of recreate that, but I just could never bring myself to wearing those shoes.
So, you know, give us, give us the playbook. What are three proactive things that someone can do today to prevent or start the, you know, start healing plantar fasciitis.
Well, I have a couple things that I typically give patients from a, you know, exercise or pain management standpoint that I would use, but I would say in general, like, one of my favorite things to say in office, here is your best posture. Is your next posture. So you know, if you stand all day long, you're not giving certain structures a break. So if you can, if you're able to try to alleviate some of those, you know, pressures. So if you sit all day long, give your body a break every 45 minutes to an hour, stand up. If you stand all day, you know, every 45 minutes to an hour, sit down for a couple minutes, give your body that break, because those tissues need it. And yeah, so kind of the things I like to give, once again, this is all individual, and all depends on your situation. But a lot of times prescribe, you know, taking, taking a plastic bottle of water, put it in the freezer, ice it if you're having plantar fasci facial issues, and then you can roll your foot on it, kind of, you know, dig in there, but the ice will kind of numb it up a little bit. That way you can kind of work that fascia out, give you some relief. Now, a lot of people that have plantar fascias, fascia already know this, or they've taken a golf ball, they've taken a lacrosse ball and tried to dig in there. Sometimes it's painful, and sometimes it's definitely gonna be painful, but if you work through it, it'll give you some relief. Next one, one of my favorite things, it's hard to explain, but what I call, or what are called, short foot exercises. So short foot exercises are basically try to get those little, tiny intrinsic muscles in your foot to kind of wrap up and create that arch in your foot, along with, you know, doing, making sure your toes go in, out, up, down, and you could, do, you know, keep those food, those toes moving a lot of times. And, you know, if you're playing around your toes right now, as you're listening to this, a lot of people lose the ability to move their feet and move their toes the way that they did when they were little. So, you know, you know, being able to space them out, bring them up and down, bring them together. You know, working on that and try to move them individually if you can. I mean, it's not easy, but the more you do it, you can train it and build up those, those intrinsic muscles in the foot and the toes, which will be very healthy for the plantar fasci And then, just generally, Hip Flexor Stretches and, like posterior chain stretches, so So calf stretch, calf foam rolling and hamstring foam rolling. It's going to help take a lot of pressure off that posterior system. I used to work for a company that does a lot of this manual therapy and exercise work on many extremity issues, and I would see tons of plantar fascial patients, and they also did a lot of home care, and they found that they got really, really good results with plantar fascial patients, their plantar Fauci. Status patients by just having them work on their hip flexors without even touching their feet, which is super interesting. So, you know, we sit all day long our hip flexors, our psoas, our top of our quads, that we tend to get really, really tight, and which puts that the hip into a little bit more of a flex position. At four, we have a hard time extending. So then when we walk, a lot more pressure gets kind of put down on that, that plantar fasciitis.
Yeah, those are great, great things, I think, yeah. And, you know, I think of the toes thing you can do that while you're watching TV. You can do that, you know, just sitting around, just if you can think about when you're able to do some of that stuff. It, you know, foam rolling. You can do that while you're watching TV or listen to, you know, you can really do some of those things in your everyday life. Absolutely. Yeah, that's great. Let me ask you this, what's one outdated or misguided approach to plantar fasciitis? And you know that you wish would maybe disappear.
Oh, this one's loaded. I'm going to first off and state either shoe inserts or heel inserts. I'm you know, they help some people, don't get me wrong, but that's usually the first, the first defense for most, you know, provide providers like podiatrists or orthopedists. And sometimes it just perpetuates the issue, or doesn't really solve it, just kind of, you sometimes, doesn't help at all. And patients are paying, you know, six, $700 if not more, for these inserts. So that's one thing, and I had another one. Totally, I'm totally, totally blanking right now. Oh, just the idea of like these. And, you know, you can get, you can get cortisone injections in your interplastic plantar Fauci, and they do it sometimes. And you know, one thing is that people come in and they say, Oh, I have a, I have a heel spur, or they want to remove the heel spur with surgery. And the heel spur is just your body's natural mechanism to protect you because there's inflammation in the area. So what happens is, over time that plantar fascial is getting tugged and pulled on in a direction it doesn't like, and your body naturally puts down a bone, then the bone, you know, or like, the fibroblast, and then the the tissue gets tugged and pulled on enough that your body turns it into bone. Yeah. And then over time, you have a heel spur, and by removing that heel spur, it doesn't really solve the problem. The issue is the tension on the plantar fascia in the wrong areas, and that's what's causing that, that inflammation to happen, which is what's going to turn into bone eventually. It's like our it's like osteoarthritis. You over time. You know, if you're using something in a weird way, you're gonna probably develop bone spurs in certain direction, right? So then, you know, the removal of that is silly, and the explanation of it silly. So sometimes it's just teaching patients, you know, how they bought their body should move, and teach them how to move better,
right? Yeah, that's those are great, great, great things to debunk their last question. You've worked with patients who thought they'd be in pain forever, and there's nothing more you know when you're in pain. I know my dad struggled with a lot of back pain for years and years and years because of the work he did. You know it's debilitating, mentally and physically, what's, what's the one story that sticks with you, where you saw real transformation, maybe even beyond the physical symptoms.
I'd have a really I probably shouldn't tell the story, but I find it very funny, but also very memorable for me. Patient I was working with in Washington, DC. You know, with these type of patients, you can, you can make huge changes in like three to five visits, right? And I was working with this patient. It was her third visit. She's probably mid 50s, worked DC as a lobbyist, and, you know, she had plantar fasciitis for probably two or three years in one foot, and then that finally went away. This is before I saw her. And then she got it in the other foot, and then she started developing all this pain. So she kind of knew the whole story. That's how it's gonna go. It's not fun. You know, in that setting, I did a lot of deep tissue immunotherapy into the plantar fasci into the calf and everything. And there was this one time, you know, the third visit. So first visit she got some relief. Second visit, she got some relief. Third visit, I'm digging probably as hard as I can. And this sounds terrible, and I'm probably scaring people away here, but it works. I'm digging into the bottom of the foot and the fascia, into the plantar fasciitis. Specifically, it's what I call continuum disorders. It's where the tension or where the tendon meets the bone, essentially, or like, will that plant professional meet the bone? So that's where I'm treating, and that's right where people have issues. So I'm digging in, I'm working through this, and she is sweating, and she sounds. Like she is speaking in tongues, and like the it was the most awkward, weird situation I've ever been as a provider. And she's just like, I'm like, oh my god, what is going on, right? And she had, you know, a lot of pain with the treatment. But honestly, after, after we were done, she hopped up and she's like, My pain is all gone. Wow. And like I told her, I was like, I think I released the demons in your and your plantar fascia. They're just hiding in there. But she hopped up and, you know, she she didn't have pain anymore. So, like, I saw her for her next visit. I discharged her because there was pretty she was pretty much pain free. I sent her on her way with exercises and and she did really well. But that was, that was the most memorable plantar fascia story. I mean, I've treated patients over the years, runners, triathletes, you know, a lot of different types of patients. And that one was very interesting. And, yeah, funny. And, I mean, she was a really super, like, goofy and fun person, but, man, that was weird.
Yeah, that's awesome, but hey, man, no pain. I mean, it can really take a toll mentally when you're in a lot of pain, and to be able to get rid of that, because I'm sure she was on her feet all the time. She was probably doing a lot of walking, especially being in Washington, DC, and I'm sure that was a huge relief to get rid of that pain and to be pain free. Dr Thorpe, thanks for being on the podcast today. You know. I don't know if a lot of people know this, especially if they're in Columbia, or if they're coming through Columbia. I know you know your health employees, you know Can, can get your services, you know, and they can, they can schedule an appointment with you, and I think there's a lot more people that need to take advantage of that, because I've been to you, you've you've helped me, I know you've helped a lot of other people that are employees. So employees at your health take advantage of that. If you're in the Columbia area, man, give your health a call. Ask for Dr Thorpe. You know, you you work out of the Chapin office, but then you're also in Columbia some during the week at the player the Players Club, because you also do, you know golf, you know therapy, you know for chiropractic, golf therapy. I don't, I don't know what you officially call it, but so
I do a lot of the same stuff there. It's a little bit more geared towards golfers, but I see anyone that wants to come see me down there as well. So I'm on the fourth floor of the players club downtown Columbia on Main Street, Tuesdays and Thursdays and then Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I'm out at our Chapin location, which is not too far from downtown. Chapin, yeah, awesome.
Well, if you're having this issue, man, get it taken care of. There is there is help out there. And I can personally recommend Dr Thorpe, and you can, you can trust him. So, Dr Thorpe, thanks for being on the podcast. We really appreciate your time, and this has been great. I've learned a ton, and hope I never have to deal with plant plantar fasciitis again. It's been a long time. I'm doing good. So thanks so much for being on the podcast.
Yeah, as always, Jamie, thank you so much. Appreciate it and talk to you soon. Thanks. You.