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Raise a little heel

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Raise a little heel šŸŽ¶ raise a little heel šŸŽ¶ raise a little heel! If you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it? If you know there’s something wrong why don’t you right it?

~ Trooper, from the classic song, ā€œRaise a Little Heelā€

I’ve 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 ā€œbrakingā€ contractions are potentially therapeutic. And why is that? Yeah, that’s trickier to splain … but see my eccentric contraction article, which got a geeky update yesterday about titin’s 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.

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