I hope you have good results with these self-help tips. They are highly effective and because you can do them yourself you're not limited to a 20 minute treatment three days a week. When I treat patients am doing deep tissue work for at lease an hour the first visit if not more and sometimes two, four, six, 10 hours a day on VIP clients that pay by the hour. So, you can give yourself the same VIP treatment by doing the deep tissue and stretching of your feet yourself while sitting at your desk or in a focused session in the grass or on the carpet in your living room. Just work in these points for hours at a time until you've resolved your condition. You don't have to do 20 minutes and stop and you don't have to rest your body every other day like you do with training.
My patients are treated daily. When they say, EVERY DAY? I say, DO YOU WANT TO GET BETTER FAST OR SLOW? We all know how they respond....
As far as your diagnosis peroneal insertion tendinitis, these diagnoses are just explanations of where things hurt or were the inflammation is. What causes the inflammation and pain is always much more complex than just describing where the information is. In fact just describing where the inflammation is in applying some anti-inflammatory in my opinion is the old treat where it hurts method as outdated in fact quite prehistoric. The reason why I offer the more complex view is because I am trying to get you to think differently about your body as a human spring mechanism that works with a symphony of suspension system muscles that control the movement of 33 individual joints of the human foot. If you go to a health care professional and they treat where it hurts and do not restore your human spring mechanism can you take up impact forces of 3-4 x your bodyweight into a barefoot? Doubtful.
We think about the a 3 dimensional structure that has 33 movable joints and a suspension system that can set these joints in millions of different positions you can understand how the human body is able to balance the mass over the top of these tiny little feet in various terrains at many different speeds with external objects effecting the balance, i.e. a football player running getting hit by another player but regaining his balance to run into the end zone.
When any one or many of these joints in the human foot get locked the ability for the foot to create these millions of positions to balance the mass over the top of it is diminished. Balance is not as accurate. As we age footwear and injuries caused our tissue to become stiffer and even lock in some places the foot reducing our ability to attain these positions because of a lack of flexibility in the foot. The leading cause of accidental death in the elderly is falls. When joints in the foot lock then when the tendons pull against these locked joints the bones don't move the way they were designed to move so the tendon strains So now instead of you saying you have strained inflamed tendon, you can say I have a strained peroneal tendon which is inflamed because the bone and joint complex it is pulling against won't give and therefore it gets strained Treating this strained inflamed tendon without releasing the stiff or locked mechanism that is straining it will only provide temporary relief if that. If all I had was anti-inflammatory aids to treat these conditions I would lose my mind. Honestly I don't know how people who treat this way get anyone better It is beyond my comprehension.
By setting your sights on barefoot running for the rest of your life your challenge is much greater on a daily basis to maintain the movement of these joints, however because you are challenged to keep these 33 joints moving and the strength within the spring suspension system's to take up impact forces or three times your body weight on a barefoot your have a better chance of getting into your later years with the ability to still run. As you age the challenge to keep your 3dimensional flexible springy foot healthy enough to take these impacts will be harder and harder. You cannot wear shoes 8 hours a day and think that you can just barefoot run ONLY as a way of maintaining the ability to run barefoot for life. You have to do the fine tuning every run by hand. Why wait for your peroneal tendon to get inflamed again or worse before you do the hands on? When athletes are in competitive sports, they all have pre practice warm ups which involve a 30-60 minute stretch, massages etc. If you are running 3 days a week barefoot you might as well consider yourself functioning as a professional athlete level and treat your body as a pro athlete would.
Those who feel it's a good idea to wear a brace on the foot and protect the foot from impacts are saying that they don't trust the ability of the foot to be able to do what it's designed to do, so the Reliant external braces to assist the foot. The next step is when they can't rely on the flip to be able to walk so they need a cane and then a four prong Walker, and then a wheelchair, and then they're bedridden. This is the normal standard of care that medicine opts for, to raise the body constantly instead of re-storing the natural spring mechanism that you're born with as a child. The inability to run barefoot is the first sign of aging.
Unfortunately, doctors may not have the same degree of excitement to strive to maintain your youth as you do. So therefore, you have to take matters in your own hands. So take the time to look through these videos and give your foot hand, and work on these points yourself.
I recommendation is that you spend 30 minutes before every wrong for the next 6 to 8 weeks fine-tuning the movement patterns of these joints in the spring mechanism of the foot. What you'll find my doing these techniques before you run is that the foot will become more flexible and you are running will become more natural.
After that during this process the brain will start to readjust the movement patterns that are stored so that your form and technique will become a burned into the brains nervous system. After that you won't have to do with these fine tuning techniques as often.
That's what I determined when I did the self-help tips myself prior to barefoot running and I run on the solid concrete surfaces of the lakefront in Chicago at 50 years of age. So go for it and let me know how things work out. Let me know where it points you are finding to be tender on these self-help tips