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Plantar Fasciitis

Comprehensive Chiropractic Solution For Plantar Fasciitis

Does severe morning heel pain ruin your daily workouts? This persistent discomfort limits your natural movement, and standard rest protocols never resolve the true structural damage. When you leave these structural issues unaddressed, it traps your lower limbs in frustrating cycles of painful compensation.
Stopping this painful loop requires an active, mechanical intervention that repairs your compromised fibers directly at the source. At Action Chiropractic and Sports Injury Center, our specialized chiropractic treatment for plantar fasciitis and dynamic care restores your full physical range of motion. We eliminate chronic pain and discomfort to give you lasting, functional relief.

What Is Plantar Fasciitis?

Plantar fasciitis is an inflammatory condition affecting the thick, supportive band of tissue running along the sole of your foot. This crucial ligament connects your heel bone directly to your toes. It acts as your foot’s primary shock absorber.
Continuous physical stress causes severe micro-tearing within these deep fibers, collapsing your natural arch and triggering a stabbing sensation. Resolving this structural damage requires a direct biomechanical approach to repair the compromised tissue and restore your pain-free mobility.

What Causes Plantar Fasciitis?

Repetitive mechanical stress and improper athletic footwear choices represent the primary culprits for Plantar Fasciitis. Forcing your feet to endure continuous impact on hard surfaces triggers microscopic fraying along the dense connective band.
  • Repetitive Impact Strain:Running or walking long distances on hard pavement overstretches your supportive plantar tissue. A constant pounding creates microscopic tears that continuously inflame the bottom of your foot.
  • Improper Work Footwear:Wearing flat shoes lacking structural arch support places immense mechanical pressure on your soles. Your fascia is forced to overstretch and flatten out completely due to a lack of vital cushioning forces.
  • Biomechanical Foot Overpronation:Having your ankles roll inward during movement constantly pulls and twists your lower fascia. This repetitive misalignment places immense mechanical strain on your heel with every step.
  • Tight Calf Musculature:Having stiff, short calf muscles restricts normal ankle flexibility and overloads your heel insertion. When your calves lock up, they pull upward on your heel bone and trap the sole of your foot in a permanent tug-of-war.
Over time, your body builds up rigid, restrictive scar tissue layers that cause immense localized stiffness. Our advanced chiropractic clinic offers complete physical evaluations to pinpoint the true biomechanical cause of your ongoing heel pain.

Why Choose Chiropractic Care For Foot Pain?

If you are exhausted from waking up to that agonizing, razor-sharp heel pain, it’s time to seek specialized chiropractic treatments for Plantar Fasciitis. During daily walks, misalignments in your ankles or hips force your lower limbs to absorb unnatural twisting forces.
Our expert team evaluates your complete kinetic chain to locate hidden postural imbalances that place extra strain below. A targeted plantar fasciitis chiropractic adjustment focuses on restoring perfect structural alignment to the tiny bones inside your feet. We realign these crucial joints instantly to reduce the excessive, continuous stretching forces pulling on your inflamed, painful fascial tissues.

Advanced Chiropractic Plantar Fasciitis Treatment For Fast Recovery

Our qualified chiropractors in Naperville combine gentle joint mobilization with advanced soft tissue therapies to maximize your recovery. We utilize specialized tools to scrape away deep fascial adhesions and quickly restart your natural cellular healing.
Our multi-faceted chiropractic treatments for plantar fasciitis safely reduce localized swelling and eliminate the toxic metabolic environments that stall recovery. We also provide customized functional exercises to strengthen your foot arch and protect your long-term mobility.
  • Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM):We use specialized medical tools to break down dense scar tissue safely to restore fiber elasticity. Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization instantly releases painful tension along your bottom fascia.
  • Custom Orthotic Therapy:Using precision shoe inserts, we support your natural arch geometry to prevent future micro-tearing episodes. These specialized devices balance structural weight distribution perfectly during daily steps.
  • Kinesiology Taping Protocols:Elastic therapeutic tape unloads mechanical pressure from your heel during demanding daily walks. Our flexible support stabilizes moving joints while completely accelerating your deep cellular recovery.
  • Cox Flexion Distraction in Naperville:Our experts use gentle spinal decompression adjustments to optimize your overall nervous system function and correct severe kinetic imbalances. The advanced manual technique removes downstream stress from your lower limbs.
  • Cox Flexion Distraction in Naperville:Our experts use gentle spinal decompression adjustments to optimize your overall nervous system function and correct severe kinetic imbalances. The advanced manual technique removes downstream stress from your lower limbs.

Service Areas

  • Aurora
  • Naperville
  • Wheaton
Dr. Norgaard’s first exposure to chiropractic was when he was a high school football player at Neuqua Valley in Naperville, Illinois. Nagging injuries led him to Action Chiropractic and Dr. Durnas. He was amazed with the results he got and knew that the treatments provided at Action Chiropractic were the best way to address his ailments.
After high school, Dr. Norgaard left Naperville and attended Central College in Pella, Iowa. While at Central, he majored in biology and played football, further piquing his interest in sports injuries and how to treat them. When he wasn’t in the classroom or on the football field, Dr. Norgaard spent his time volunteering at hospitals, and at various clinics. This is when he really developed a passion for helping people get better.
His experiences as an athlete, chiropractic patient, and volunteer shaped his decision to become a chiropractor.
After graduating from Central, Dr. Norgaard continued his education at Palmer College of Chiropractic.
While at Palmer, Dr. Norgaard took several extracurricular courses focusing on spinal diagnosis and therapy, soft tissue care, and diagnosis and treatment of the extremities. He completed a 4-month internship with Dr. Durnas at Action Chiropractic and Sports Injury Center and further developed his skills as a physician.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Palmer in October of 2021 and received the Academic Excellence Award.
After graduation, Dr. Norgaard joined the team at Action Chiropractic and Sports Injury Center. He currently resides in the Naperville area with his wife, Shannon, son, Parker, and dog, Alby.
“I chose to become a chiropractor because I was helped by chiropractic. I was in such discomfort it took me over 3 minutes to put on my socks. After seeing a chiropractor, and regaining the ability to tie my shoes, I realized that taking loads of NSAIDs did not address the fact that there was something causing the pain. The more I learned about it, I found that Chiropractic doesn’t just hide symptoms, like I was trying to do with pills, it fixes the origin of the problem.”
Dr. Durnas graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Biology and Bachelors of Arts degree in Chemistry. After graduation he worked in research and development for 3 years and dabbled in powerlifting and professional wrestling. That’s what lead him to chiropractic school. While at Palmer College of Chiropractic, he focused on learning how to best help the athlete. He took several extracurricular courses on how to address soft tissue injuries, how to adjust extremities, and how to better manage sports injuries. He graduated in June of 2012, where we were the Palmer Clinical Excellence Award winner and a keynote speaker at commencement.
In 2019, Dr. Durnas earned his Diplomate from the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians (DACBSP)®. He is only the 427th chiropractor in history to earn this designation, and only the 6th recipient in the history of Illinois. He completed over 300 hours of classroom and online courses focusing on in depth on the diagnosis and treatment of sports injuries, concussions, and emergency procedures, and had over 100 on the field hours with athletes that ranged from cross fitters, professional and high school football players, professional BMX and Motocross riders, triathletes, and runners. Dr. Durnas passed a 6-part practical exam and a 250 question Board exam and contributed a case study involving nerve damage in a professional athlete following a hit to the shoulder.