Massaging is supposed to help plantar fasciitis heal (a problem that now occupies 50% of all my thoughts).
But who doesn’t love a good full body massage?
I had that twice in my 20s,@kittykat9180, and both times I finally took a cortisone shot to fix it. So I’d recommend it, but ONLY if one is aware of possible side effects.
@spacemart I always stretch my calf, it’s a part of my routine since I suffered a few calf tears 5 years ago. Im pretty sure my calf’s are the most limber part of my body now.
@haydesigner
My podiatrist gave me an injection yesterday. Corticosteroids don’t heal injuries, they just provide temporary pain and inflammation relief while you continue recommend rehab. But the reduction in swelling can reduce pressure on the fascia to speed healing.
@mediocrebot Ok, that’s fair. I didn’t know how to communicate kitty “morse code” with the paws. It gets the general idea across. I think a little pillbox cap you’d see at the telegram office would be in order too.
@cfg83@mediocrebot
Or perhaps if he had his claws out and blood was dripping from the letters!
Smokey is great at kneading type massages (aka making biscuits). Bandit can’t seem to get the idea that he shouldn’t have his claws out while he’s doing that!
Having leg strength & circulation issues hope it might help. Not ready to get into the whole medical-industrial complex for it yet. Scary reality in this country.
@chienfou@haydesigner yeah but I did buy some (from here I think) in case I have to go on flights, but my latest plan is “don’t go on flights.” Eventually maybe an international trip next year will over-ride that.
Also my niece says “always go first class,” so maybe then…
IMO, The Best way to avoid Plantar Faciitis is to Only go barefoot when in bed and in the shower according to a Podiatrist… Your little muscle tears begin healing while in bed, and then you plop feet over the side of bed and slap them on the floor and the tears begin anew…Not sure why flexing calf muscles will help your feet, TBH… Quit going barefoot and avoid flip flops…
Got to admit when I first read this I thought “who wears shoes to bed or into the shower??” Took a couple of readings before I parsed out the intended meaning. D’oh… I guess that’s just me since I generally go barefoot around the house a good bit and work outside in cheap clogs with little support. My only episode with plantar fasciitis came after a full day playing at a field day event for a friend’s birthday. That was about 30 years ago and yes, it was ridiculously painful. Finally got better after I got some inserts. Haven’t had any trouble with it since. Knocks wood
@Mandamm
I haven’t gone barefoot or worn flip flops in months due to my injury.
I also got one of a sock foot stretchy thing that stretches the fascia at night. Unfortunately, it squishes my toes and I wake up in pain within 20 mins and take it off.
@chienfou@Mandamm It’s not strictly an Oxford by that version of the rule. but an exploitable ambiguity exists because of the construction of the sentence, and a comma would have removed it. Since that’s the entire point of the Oxford, I will call it one here as well.
@chienfou@Mandamm@werehatrack Not intending to derail this into politics, more like political philosophy, but recent trends (maybe always have been there) was that the Constitution itself is filled with exploitable ambiguities. That may have been the intention. Or maybe they said F— it let them figure it out, I’m taking a carriage home.
@chienfou@Mandamm@pmarin There are multiple schools of thought about this, including the one positing that the framers knew what they wanted to say, and believed they had made their intent crystal clear in words so plain and forthright that none could fail to understand their meaning.
Sadly, time has proven that if such was their assumption, it was rendered inaccurate by the passage of time if nothing else.
@chienfou@Mandamm I hate flip flops, partly because of the thing between yor toes, partly because they give little support and partly because they are unstable, I tell people they are clled flip flops because they flip and then you flop. A surprising number of people, when they hear that, say something like, “yeah I remember last year when I fell…” Going barefoot in the home is dangerous due to the strange things on the floor-pins, screws, Legos (in some homes), etc.
@andyw@Mandamm
I agree. That part between your toes is SUPER annoying. I’m old enough to remember when they were called “thongs”. I virtually never wear them. I remember busting my ass in the basement in a pair when I was a child when they got wet and slipped out from under me.
I wear sandals/river shoes a lot (in a pair now as I write this while at the breakfast area in the hotel we are in at ORANGE BEACH.) Barefoot in the house works okay for me. Can’t do it outside though unless I’m on the sand.
Took this on a long (barefoot) walk on the beach yesterday evening. Covered about a mile or so.
@andyw@chienfou@Mandamm that photo is stunning, and it has my spirit bird. I’m going to have a heron worked into my ink, when I start my back in the next few years.
Woe is me…
I use different massagers for my different needs. My lymphedema therapist would pound my body like a drum to get the lymph moving. So besides the pneumatic compression machine that has 2 different types (daytime & nighttime) of thigh high boots and shorts that go with it I use whatever hard object is handy to beat my body when I’m not using the machine. I don’t use my hand because my hand has its own issues. That’s where today’s offer is appealing. I did get one a couple years ago in a IRK but I gifted it. Silly me!
My shoulder and neck are other sore spots that feel much better with massage. Trigger point massage is great for that pain, so is my TENS unit! That’s a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation if you’re not familiar with it and it’s great for both nerve and muscle pain.
My bed has a massage feature and that’s wonderful for all over relaxation and lower back pain especially when I do it in zero gravity! 🫨
Years ago after having professional massages I’d get migraines so I don’t get excited about those anymore!
Now I could use some rainbows and unicorns after the gloom and doom…
/showme a realistic picture of a sunny sky filled with fluffy clouds and a rainbow. Show unicorns, cute kittens and puppies running around on a field of flowers below.
@mediocrebot
I wish we could delete ones we don’t like.
I like this one better. And who doesn’t want to see rainbows, unicorns, pretty flowers, and cute kittens and puppies…
Have a great day my fellow Mehtizens!
I once made the mistake of having a massage soon after having some minor surgery (not ON the surgery site,) and felt lousy and ran a fever. My doc told me that it’s not a good time for it because it can stir things up in the lymphatic system when your body is trying to heal.
@Kyeh interesting, good to know about that risk. Though my trend is rest and relax, but over time that’s not good for your body either. Got to learn a balance; still learnin’. Glad it sounds like you recovered.
@pmarin Oh, thanks - I was fine soon after, it really was a minor surgery, but I hadn’t realized that about stirring up the lymph system when you’re trying to heal.
Because I want one.
Massaging is supposed to help plantar fasciitis heal (a problem that now occupies 50% of all my thoughts).
But who doesn’t love a good full body massage?
@kittykat9180 stretch your calf muscles. what my massage therapist wife tells me when i complain about my PF
I had that twice in my 20s,@kittykat9180, and both times I finally took a cortisone shot to fix it. So I’d recommend it, but ONLY if one is aware of possible side effects.
@kittykat9180
Did you see the one they’re offering on Side Deal today?
@spacemart I always stretch my calf, it’s a part of my routine since I suffered a few calf tears 5 years ago. Im pretty sure my calf’s are the most limber part of my body now.
@haydesigner
My podiatrist gave me an injection yesterday. Corticosteroids don’t heal injuries, they just provide temporary pain and inflammation relief while you continue recommend rehab. But the reduction in swelling can reduce pressure on the fascia to speed healing.
@Lynnerizer I already have percussion massage, bought here years ago.
Because I’m middle aged and broken
@regnowsin Wait until you get older and start feeling like you’re not just broken but there seem to be parts missing.
Here’s one coming your way!!
MASSAGE??
Ooops! Never mind! 
@MrGoodGuy
/showme Kitty cat delivering “massage message” by using paws to communicate message onto arm of person.
@mediocrebot Ok, that’s fair. I didn’t know how to communicate kitty “morse code” with the paws. It gets the general idea across. I think a little pillbox cap you’d see at the telegram office would be in order too.
@MrGoodGuy
@cfg83 @mediocrebot
Or perhaps if he had his claws out and blood was dripping from the letters!
Smokey is great at kneading type massages (aka making biscuits). Bandit can’t seem to get the idea that he shouldn’t have his claws out while he’s doing that!
@cfg83 @MrGoodGuy @chienfou No matter what form it takes, the message from our 2 cats always seems to be “Feed Me!”.
@chienfou @macromeh @MrGoodGuy
/showme kitty at telegraph machine tapping following morse code message: …-. . . -… / – . -.-.–
error: unknown option ‘-…’
@mediocrebot Ooops, sorry about that.
/showme kitty at telegraph machine tapping following morse code message = “…-. . . -… / – . -.-.–”
@mediocrebot Well done! I think I should have replaced the literal .- with the words dot dash, but this works well.
I could definitely use a massage, but NOT a mechanized pummeling. Hard pass.
@werehatrack
After the stories I have heard it most certainly should be a mechanized pummeling.
This song by Yello is like a massage to the ears
Having leg strength & circulation issues hope it might help. Not ready to get into the whole medical-industrial complex for it yet. Scary reality in this country.
Hope things improve, @pmarin. Has your doc talked about compression socks yet?
@haydesigner @pmarin
I think he just said he’s avoiding that interaction…
@chienfou @haydesigner yeah but I did buy some (from here I think) in case I have to go on flights, but my latest plan is “don’t go on flights.” Eventually maybe an international trip next year will over-ride that.
Also my niece says “always go first class,” so maybe then…
@haydesigner @pmarin
at the very least get up and walk around in the plane every hour or two. “Coach Class syndrome” is a thing.
I’m actually booked in for one tomorrow. The shop build is taking its toll. I also haven’t been lifting regularly so that doesn’t help either.
@sillyheathen
Well I hope tomorrow’s massage helps and relieves your aches and pains!
Feel better!
@sillyheathen
Good on you…
IMO, The Best way to avoid Plantar Faciitis is to Only go barefoot when in bed and in the shower according to a Podiatrist… Your little muscle tears begin healing while in bed, and then you plop feet over the side of bed and slap them on the floor and the tears begin anew…Not sure why flexing calf muscles will help your feet, TBH… Quit going barefoot and avoid flip flops…
@Mandamm
Got to admit when I first read this I thought “who wears shoes to bed or into the shower??” Took a couple of readings before I parsed out the intended meaning. D’oh… I guess that’s just me since I generally go barefoot around the house a good bit and work outside in cheap clogs with little support. My only episode with plantar fasciitis came after a full day playing at a field day event for a friend’s birthday. That was about 30 years ago and yes, it was ridiculously painful. Finally got better after I got some inserts. Haven’t had any trouble with it since. Knocks wood
@Mandamm
I haven’t gone barefoot or worn flip flops in months due to my injury.
I also got one of a sock foot stretchy thing that stretches the fascia at night. Unfortunately, it squishes my toes and I wake up in pain within 20 mins and take it off.
@chienfou I read it wrong the first time too. I saw it as the only time not to go barefoot was in the shower or bed. Lol
@chienfou @Mandamm Lacking an Oxford comma to derail it, my twisted mind assumed that there was a bed in the shower
@Mandamm @werehatrack
I don’t think that’s how the Oxford comma works!
@chienfou @Mandamm It’s not strictly an Oxford by that version of the rule. but an exploitable ambiguity exists because of the construction of the sentence, and a comma would have removed it. Since that’s the entire point of the Oxford, I will call it one here as well.
@chienfou @Mandamm @werehatrack Not intending to derail this into politics, more like political philosophy, but recent trends (maybe always have been there) was that the Constitution itself is filled with exploitable ambiguities. That may have been the intention. Or maybe they said F— it let them figure it out, I’m taking a carriage home.
@chienfou @Mandamm @pmarin There are multiple schools of thought about this, including the one positing that the framers knew what they wanted to say, and believed they had made their intent crystal clear in words so plain and forthright that none could fail to understand their meaning.
Sadly, time has proven that if such was their assumption, it was rendered inaccurate by the passage of time if nothing else.
@chienfou @Mandamm I hate flip flops, partly because of the thing between yor toes, partly because they give little support and partly because they are unstable, I tell people they are clled flip flops because they flip and then you flop. A surprising number of people, when they hear that, say something like, “yeah I remember last year when I fell…” Going barefoot in the home is dangerous due to the strange things on the floor-pins, screws, Legos (in some homes), etc.
@andyw the only thing I find on my floors is goat heads.
@andyw @Mandamm
Covered about a mile or so.
I agree. That part between your toes is SUPER annoying. I’m old enough to remember when they were called “thongs”. I virtually never wear them. I remember busting my ass in the basement in a pair when I was a child when they got wet and slipped out from under me.
I wear sandals/river shoes a lot (in a pair now as I write this while at the breakfast area in the hotel we are in at ORANGE BEACH.) Barefoot in the house works okay for me. Can’t do it outside though unless I’m on the sand.
Took this on a long (barefoot) walk on the beach yesterday evening.
@andyw @chienfou @Mandamm that photo is stunning, and it has my spirit bird.
I’m going to have a heron worked into my ink, when I start my back in the next few years.
@andyw @chienfou @Mandamm @sillyheathen Yes, that photo is BEAUTIFUL!!! It would make a good poster!
@chienfou @Mandamm Yup, great picture!
@andyw @Mandamm
Thanks. Only wish I had my decent Canon with me though.
Woe is me…
That’s where today’s offer is appealing. I did get one a couple years ago in a IRK but I gifted it. Silly me! 
I use different massagers for my different needs. My lymphedema therapist would pound my body like a drum to get the lymph moving. So besides the pneumatic compression machine that has 2 different types (daytime & nighttime) of thigh high boots and shorts that go with it I use whatever hard object is handy to beat my body when I’m not using the machine. I don’t use my hand because my hand has its own issues.
My shoulder and neck are other sore spots that feel much better with massage. Trigger point massage is great for that pain, so is my TENS unit! That’s a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation if you’re not familiar with it and it’s great for both nerve and muscle pain.
My bed has a massage feature and that’s wonderful for all over relaxation and lower back pain especially when I do it in zero gravity!
🫨
Years ago after having professional massages I’d get migraines so I don’t get excited about those anymore!
Now I could use some rainbows and unicorns after the gloom and doom…
/showme a realistic picture of a sunny sky filled with fluffy clouds and a rainbow. Show unicorns, cute kittens and puppies running around on a field of flowers below.
@mediocrebot
I wish we could delete ones we don’t like.
I like this one better. And who doesn’t want to see rainbows, unicorns, pretty flowers, and cute kittens and puppies…
Have a great day my fellow Mehtizens!
@Lynnerizer @mediocrebot the cats seem disturbingly evil and that prong thing very scary. Pretty picture = stuff of nightmares?
@mediocrebot @pmarin
Yeah I noticed that evil kitty, did you notice the puppy’s extra ears? What’s the prong thing though?
@Lynnerizer @pmarin The thing they never tell you about unicorns is that they’re carnivorous. (Charlie Stross spilled the beans, among others.)
@pmarin @werehatrack
Learning something new everyday!
I’d love to have a massage just because I feel good all over after one.
The only time I don’t want a massage is immediately after a massage.
I once made the mistake of having a massage soon after having some minor surgery (not ON the surgery site,) and felt lousy and ran a fever. My doc told me that it’s not a good time for it because it can stir things up in the lymphatic system when your body is trying to heal.
@Kyeh interesting, good to know about that risk. Though my trend is rest and relax, but over time that’s not good for your body either. Got to learn a balance; still learnin’. Glad it sounds like you recovered.
@pmarin Oh, thanks - I was fine soon after, it really was a minor surgery, but I hadn’t realized that about stirring up the lymph system when you’re trying to heal.
This can also be useful for loosening up dirt and sand in car mats while vacuuming.
All of the above, but more likely because I tweaked something while existing.
I did the cartoon slapstick thing and got caught in a bunch of pails. No, really. Arms, legs, multiple buckets.
https://www.newsflare.com/video/684937/icymi-hilarity-ensues-as-woman-gets-arm-stuck-in-bucket-she-ordered-from-tiktok
I got loose after a spin-out, but according to the x-rays (and giant swollen bruising), I broke a few things and shouldn’t move those parts.
@pakopako But HOW?