02/05/2026
What does it mean when the body has painful plantar fasciitis?
(1) She has been here for regular foot reflexology/massages because of bad chronic pains of her plantar fasciitis since August, 2015. Each time she always requires deep tissue massage, yelling out because of the pains of plantar fasciitis and has spent thousands of money on changing different kinds of shoes, expensive shoes inserts, seeing podiatrists/doctors etc. to support her feet, keeps healthy diets, but the pains are still so severe and tough there.
(2) On 3/8/2024, she came here for both feet and hip massage. She gained a lot of weight with menopause syndromes plus depression. She just got bursitis in both hips and underwent a uterus cleanse surgery. She said she was lucky no cancer was found and surprised that I could feel that she had fluid in her ear by touching her body. I told her the surgery was just temporary relief and she needed to dig out root causes to stop the pains. She firmly believed that her many years of running/walking/standing on feet caused the pains which exactly are not root causes according to my knowledge.
(3) On 11/22/2025, she was surprised again that I found something newly wrong with her knee. She just got hysterectomy and lost all her female organs. Doctors found cancerous cells there and comforted her that all problems have been fixed. But I know as long as chronic inflammation is kept inside the body, it will gradually eat up the body, e.g. knees/other organs… with time elapsing.
(4) On 1/15/2026, she said she began to feel her hands twitching and I have found her plantar fasciitis has spread from her arches up to some of her toes. My hands tell me it spreads more quickly than before. She always feels she is a cold-proof person and never wants any quilt to cover her body even in freezing weather. I told her that the hotter she feels, the more dangers the body will suffer.
Her severe plantar fasciitis pains for tens of years are indeed the signals/body language of the body to ask her to help against chronic inflammation. I will call these pains as WASTED pains. Surgeries cannot end up chronic inflammation’s spreading.
I finally find how to fight against chronic pains/inflammation. Previously when clients tipped me well for frequent massages but always complaining the pains coming back to bother them, I would feel very frustrated, shyness with the good tips, blamed myself and always thought “is it because my massages not good enough”? I am now no longer feeling frustrated and entangled by “why the pains are still there”. As long as we really help the body on the right track with patience and time, WASTED pains will disappear!
If patients don’t pretend to be blind or deaf to chronic pains the body is telling, many severe chronic diseases & symptoms, many surgeries/injections/medication can be avoided and no endless WASTED money on endless WASTED pains.
Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon/Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine) writes: the highest-level healthcare treats/helps the body before diseases occur.