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Raise a little heel
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Raise a little heel š¶ raise a little heel š¶ raise a little heel! If you donāt like what you got, why donāt you change it? If you know thereās something wrong why donāt you right it?
~ Trooper, from the classic song, āRaise a Little Heelā
Iāve packed this website with little whimsical flourishes like that (so many that I routinely forget them and then have a good chuckle when I stumble across them again). This one kicks off a section of my plantar fasciitis book about heel raises.
And why would one raise a little heel? Why do heel drops? (Standing on an edge and lowering your heel below your toes and then lifting up again.) Because eccentric or ābrakingā contractions are potentially therapeutic. And why is that? Yeah, thatās trickier to splain ⦠but see my eccentric contraction article, which got a geeky update yesterday about titinās likely role in eccentric contractions, and two types of isometric contraction (clenching). Eccentric contractions are weird and scientifically fascinating, so of course I had to write about them.