Plantar fasciitis relief in San Francisco.
Plantar fasciitis is the foot adapting to a load it shouldn't be carrying. Stretching the fascia helps for an hour. Dr. Garrett finds why your foot is taking on more than its share — calf, ankle, hip mechanics — and changes the load at the source.
The foot is where you feel it. The load comes from above.
The fascia tightens because the load demands it
Plantar fascia isn't broken. It's tightening to handle the forces moving through your foot — forces that should be distributed across your calf, ankle, and hip mechanics. When the parts above stop doing their share, the foot takes on more than its design.
Why orthotics, night splints, and rolling don't last
All three address the foot. Orthotics support the arch without activating it. Night splints lengthen the fascia overnight, then it tightens again with the first weight-bearing step. Rolling helps in the moment. None of them change why the foot is being loaded so heavily.
The lasting fix is upstream
Once Dr. Garrett identifies which parts of your calf, ankle, and hip have shut down and brings them back online, the foot no longer takes the full load. The fascia softens because the demand has dropped. The change holds.
This is exactly what your first session finds.
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Where plantar fasciitis actually comes from.
The foot is the bottom of a chain. The chain runs up through your calf, ankle, and hip.
Your hip mechanics have shifted.
How your hip absorbs and produces force determines how much work goes to the structures below it. When the deep hip stabilizers stop engaging, more load travels down through the chain — past the knee, past the ankle, into the foot.
Your calf and ankle have stopped sharing the load.
A healthy calf and ankle absorb impact and redistribute force as you walk. When they stiffen — from sitting, training imbalances, old injuries — the foot takes on what they should have handled. The fascia tightens to manage what comes through.
The plantar fascia is the receipt.
The pain in your heel and arch is the body's way of saying the foot is doing more than it should. Change the load above and the fascia softens. The relief lasts because the demand has changed.
What happens in your first session.
Full assessment, guided protocols, and a take-home practice. 60 minutes.
Assessment
Dr. Garrett assesses how your body moves. Where it's overworking, where it's shut down. He's looking at your whole body, not just the part that hurts.
Guided protocols
Using simple props (yoga blocks, foam rollers, gymnastic rings), Dr. Garrett guides you through protocols adapted to your body in real time. You're not lying on a table. You're moving, finding positions where your body starts to rebalance itself.
What changes
Most clients feel a noticeable shift during the first session. The overworked areas release. The underworked areas start to re-engage. You feel the difference before you leave.
Take-home practice
You leave with a short practice for what was worked on that session. About five minutes. You do it on your living room floor. It maintains the changes and keeps your body moving in the right direction between sessions.
Virtual sessions work well for plantar fasciitis. The work is in finding the upstream mechanics — calf, ankle, hip — and changing the load. Dr. Garrett assesses how you stand and load the foot via live video and guides you through positions that change the chain. Most clients notice their morning sharpness reducing within the first few sessions.
People who came in with the same thing.
I follow his protocol every day. 8 months no pain.
I thought pain was just part of getting older. I wish I'd met Dr. Garrett ten years sooner.
I really have tried everything. Nothing has ever come close to this.
Most clients feel a difference in their first session.
Book a session with Dr. Garrett. If you don't experience noticeable relief, we keep working with you until you do, at no additional charge.
Common questions.
If something isn't here, ask on a free discovery call. Dr. Garrett answers everything before you book a paid session.