Be Kind to your feetHeel pain is a common condition of the foot, in most cases, the condition is caused by damage to the plantar fascia, a disorder known as Plantar fasciitis. From time immemorial, proud parents have jumped and cheered with joy as young toddlers stop crawling on all fours to take those vital first few steps, an event most mums and dads would hate to miss. A child's first walk is an important milestone, like the first feed, the first smile and the first spoken words. Walking is a natural process, we've done it most of our lives, but are we doing it right? Just as a good building needs a good structural foundation to stand strong, our body need good healthy feet for a life time of support, weight bearing and locomotion. An average moderately active person is said to take 7,500 steps/day. If that person maintains the average, and live to a ripe old age of 80 years, he/she will have walked a distance of 110,000 miles. The human foot is an incredible feat of bioengineering that took over 4 million years of evolution to perfect. Our feet carry us along, taking the full weight of the body as we go about out business. It's true, we no longer walk as many miles as our ancestors once did, although many of us should clearly be doing more, we still find new and interesting ways to punish our feet. Women particularly, are prepared to tolerate excruciating pain in the name of fashion. As late as 1949 the barbaric culture of foot binding was still practiced on young women in China. Foot binding was done to achieve the ideal foot length of 3 inches. The practice began in ancient China around the 10th century, when a woman with tiny feet was a highly prized possession, beautiful and more desirable. But it also showed that such women made ideal wives, because they were uncomplaining. Known as the " Golden Lotus," young women's feet would be tightly bound with cotton or silken bandages. In some cases the toes would be folded under the feet with many of the bones at the top of each foot broken, the ball of the foot buckled in, then wrapped to the heel. Fast forward to the present day, while not as extreme, we are still abusing our feet in the name of fashion. Women continue to force their feet into shoes that are badly fitted, wear ridiculously high heels that squeezes the foot into painful and unnatural position resulting in malformation, heel pain, bunions, arthritis, arch pain, ball of foot pain and a lot of other conditions. High heel shoes causes the weight to be transferred to the ball of the foot, stretching and damaging the fascia. The shoes we wear can affect out posture, putting the spine out of its natural alignment. Recently published 3 D scans showed the damage that can be caused by wearing high heels. According to the experts, by wearing shoes, we no longer walk correctly. A South African university research published in the podiatry journal "The Foot" found that we still haven't perfected the art of walking, in short the way we walk is wrong, and this is mostly due to our shoes. The study titled "Shod Verses Unshod" looked at 180 modern humans from three different population groups (Sotho, Zulu, and European) the feet of each group was compared to each others and also to 2000 years old skeletons. The study concluded that before the invention of shoes, people had healthier feet. In the modern subjects, the Zulu population who often goes bare feet, had the healthiest feet, while the shoe wearing European, had the unhealthiest feet. However, while the Podiatric Medical Association does not suggest that we all go barefoot walking, we need to be conscious of what shoes we wear, since most of the shoes currently on the market are bad for out feet. Most of the shoes we buy offers little or no support, are often too tight and made from materials that suffocate the feet. Plantar refers to the foot, fascia, connective tissue fibre and itis an inflammatory process. Plantar fasciitis is the medical term used to describe the painful condition of the plantar fascia, a strong flexible band of connective tissue fibre that runs from the insertion at the heel, where the fascia attaches to the calcaneous or heel bone, fans out along the bottom of the foot supporting the arch, then spread out to the bones of the mid foot. Plantar fasciitis, is usually caused by overuse, injury, or muscular abnormalities. The damaged plantar fascia becomes thickened, resulting in pain when walking. The pain associated with planter fasciitis is not always experienced at the time of the injury, the onset is often gradual and usually located over the middle or inner aspect of the heel. Fascia is material that is woven throughout the body to hold us together. The function of the fascia is both generalized and specialized. Fascia is an intricate structure of connective tissue, a web of collagen fibre rather like a thin membrane of cellophane. It wraps tightly around the muscles holding the content together and consists of a number of very thin layers that extends from head to toes. There are three main types of fascia: Superficial, associated with the skin Deep, mainly to do with the muscles, bone, nerve and blood vessels Visceral, mostly associated with the internal organs Fascia binds some structure together, but also allow others to move smoothly over each other as we move. The fascia protects, separates, connects and hold the organs of the body in their rightful place. Although the fascial tissue plays an important role in musculoskeletal medicine, most people are unaware of it, in fact, even the medical community has neglected to study this important part of the body until recently. The first international Fascia Research Congress took place at Harvard Medical School in 2007. The fascia contains nerve, when it is damaged or inflamed, we feel pain. Damaged fascia tissue can affect the whole body, it can cause problem with movement, as in repetitive strain injury, it can cause headaches and chronic pain. Fascia injury is the most common injury sustain by athletes, and is now at the forefront of athletic training. Like muscles, most fascia has an elastic quality, they are smooth and supple, in optimum condition, it is flexible tissue, most of which are capable of being stretched. However, inactivity, stress, dehydration and other factors can have a detrimental affect on on the fascia, causing it to become harder and thickened, a state from which it is difficult to recover. When the fascia in not functioning at its best, when it is stretched beyond its normal capacity, micro tearing can occur in individual collagen fibre, leading to scaring and adhesion. The planter fascia is a tough triangular sheet of inelastic fibrous tissue that acts as a shock absorber in the foot, the healthy plantar fascia is flexible, but do not stretch, when it does, the result is heel or arch pain. Fascia Wraps The Entire Body, From Head To Toes There are 26 bones in each foot, 33 joints, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles 25% of all the bones in the human body are found in the feet. 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Cheryl Sornson (Team CF) and Drew Edsall (Kenda) took top honors in the 125km race. Women: Sornson wins four in a row NUE Champion Cheryl Sornson made it four in a row this year at Syllamo's Revenge and leads the NUE Series overall. She was the only woman to finish sub eight hours, in a time of 7:45:11. "It was a quick turn around from [last weekend's NUE Series race] in New York to Arkansas," said Sornson. "My body is a bit worn down from six weekends of racing with three hundreds, two endurance races and one cross country." Sornson got away early in the race and stayed away. "It was hard to stay motivated, and I missed my target time, but, toward the end, I decided to be kind to my body and enjoyed the super awesome singletrack at a more leisurely pace. Well, it was leisurely until singlespeeders from team Noah sprinkled the trail with fast spirited dust and we railed the red trail for a bit. Great times and great people!" Brenda Simril finished third spot on the podium at 8:44:54 while Laureen Coffelt (Los Locos) was third. Men: Edsall brings it home Drew Edsall made it two straight at Syllamo's in a row as he honed his technical ability and benefited from the misfortune of flat tires that struck at several other top contenders. The only racer last year to go sub six hours at 5:59:40, Edsall finished first again this year in 6:11:15 to get his first NUE Series win of the season, "As usual at Syllamo there were lots of flats for a few of the top contenders that split things up early, including flats for Christian Tanguy and Josh Tostado," said Edsall. "I was happy to go flat free for the second year in a row. The course was super slick on the second lap. Rain two days prior made for an interesting 'ice rink' kind of slick rock. I had to finesse the climbs more than ever just to stay on the bike. I heard horror stories after the race of riders getting off their bikes to walk and eating it while walking." Edsall went off the front at the start to test his legs and those of his competitors. He split the group and ended up with Cary Smith. Rob Spreng and Christian Tanguy chased closed behind. "The four of us stayed together until about 40 minutes in, when I picked up the pace on some of the steeper climbs in the race. I got a very small gap prior to a super technical section with a 'secret', but very technical, line I found last year," said Edsall. "Given the rain two days prior, that line and the course was even more technical than normal. I used this to my advantage and pushed the pace a bit more than I normally would have early on in a race this length." Smith rejoined Edsall, who would open it up on each technical section and get caught on each power section. At 30 miles, Edsall got a sustainable gap and went for it. "This race was by far one of my hardest and most fought for wins in the NUE Series," said Edsall. "I was very happy and relieved to cross the line in the top spot. Not an easy task given the course and strong ride of Cary." Smith finished second in 6:19:01 with Todd Dohogne (Off the front racing) in third at 7:23:58. 2011 NUE Champion Tanguy was forced to settle for sixth place at 7:40:56 after reportedly suffering numerous flat tires. Singlespeed: Pflug keeps winning Last year, four time NUE Singlespeed Champion Gerald Pflug (Team CF) completed the 125km course in just 6:35:17, fourth overall and more than a half hour faster than he did in 2011 at 7:06:32. This year, the Pfluginator won SS and placed third overall in 7:00:35. Pflug went into the singletrack as one of the top 10 riders overall. Three other singlespeeders were with him. "I kept my pace a little higher than I initially planned through the opening miles of singletrack," said Pflug. "This strategy seemed to work and I was able to get a nice gap over the other singlespeeders about five miles into the race." Pflug battled a loose grip and dehydration as he started to run out of fluids. "Once I noticed my body had stopped sweating, I knew my situation was not looking good. I started catching up to riders riding between check point 2 and 3 and was able to beg a gulp of fluid from three separate riders heading into my last checkpoint." At a checkpoint, he got rehydrated and went on for the win. Trevor Rockwell (Team Noah Foundation) finished second at 7:25:49. Third place went to Pete Henry (Free Awesome) in 7:39:05 with last year's podium finisher, Duane Goscinski, Team Noah Foundation, rolling in just a few minutes later at 7:45:43. Masters: Irving gets his second straight win at Syllamo's Chris Irving took his second straight victory at Syllamo's. Last year, he finished in 7:45:19, but this year his time was 8:26:46 on a course that resulted in many DNFs this year. "I had a few mechanical issues the first 10 miles but got them sorted out by checkpoint 1. 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