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Hello there. Welcome back to Rump Pod with me, Jenny Faulkner and Paul Hovra, where we are discussing some common issues, some common runners issues and injuries.

And Paul, it's lovely to have you here to chat through these things.

Now, we've already discussed IT bands and knees.

We've also done Achilles.

I'm thinking that we go for something that I've actually not experienced before,

plantar fasciitis.

Is that have I even said it right?

Yes, it's very commonly known as plantapacitis.

Just to be a geek for a second, itis means inflammation. And because we've learned there's very

little inflammation in plantar fasciitis, we now call it plant fasciopathy. So if you're

searching for it, a lot of the more up-to-date stuff will call it plant fasciopathy. So if you're searching for it, a lot of the more up-to-date stuff will call it plant facieopathy. But I'm an old man now. I'm 50 years old and I've grown up for my entire career with plant fasciitis. So I'm going old school. Yeah, with the K and everything.

Can you tell me, first of all, what is it? Because on the Rompodron Club, we have this brilliant Facebook group.

There's a lot of people that are struggling with it.

What is it?

How does it happen?

How do you get it?

Okay, so on the underside of your foot, if you were to take away the skin,

there's this piece of connective tissue that starts at the underside of the heel

bone, travels forwards towards the toes and then divides up into little slips and attaches into

the base of each toe, or most of the toes actually often misses one out. And it is there as extra strength in the foot.

It obviously protects the base of the foot because otherwise it would just be skin.

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