Posterior tibial tendonitis PTT

Or Progressive Flat Foot

or your foot is fucked and you can't run.

 Me with my grandaughter

 June 2016

Anyway, I was finally diagnosed with PTT in my left foot last year. 2 orthopaedic surgeons said I couldn't run again. Countless physiotherapists misdiagnosed it and podiatrists mostly got it right and gave me stupid exercises like grabbing a towel with my toes and pulling with an elastic band. Of course none of them worked. It hurt to run. My foot was flat and had a lump on the side.
I did get excellent treatment from an osteopath called Wes. He was the first to mention tiptoe repeats on both feet.
And Orthopedic surgeon, Gary (just a friend, no consultation) pointed me to the very useful Angry Orthopod blog for all things feet
www.angryorthopod.com 
Heel drops on a step, being best recommendation. The author kindly emailed me advice.

I was prescribed expensive custom orthotics by 2 podiatrists and played around with off the shelf ones. They all hurt and none of them worked. I knew I wanted to fix it not have a thing in my shoes to try to keep my foot in a 'normal' position.

Now a year later my left foot looks likes this - the arch is coming back - hooray and I can run.

I felt awful that I could not run ever again.

I wasn't confident with most of the professional advice I had received,  bar notable exceptions.

The main test for PTT, is to try to do a heel rise i.e stand on tip toes on each foot. I could hardly do that on my left foot. BTW my right foot was almost perfect.

I decided that if tip toes was the diagnoses, then I could use it as the cure.

So each day I stood on tip toes on the left foot for 2 minutes. I still do today.

I started with 1 minute. I use a vibrating plate machine to make it more effective.

It starts to hurt approaching 2 minutes. I want to build up to 3 minutes but it's very boring. 

This is the vibrating machine I use for tip toes

I'd value any posts sharing similar stories.

I do have osteoarthritis in my left big toe. I expect this is related. Probably caused by the flat foot and over-pronating.

June 27 2016
Not sure how to start a new page, so continuing here
Thanks Clare for corecting spelling of Tendonopathy to Tendinopathy.. Why does the "o" become an "i"? We don't say Tendin, we say Tendon. Maybe I should have kept with the misspelling and set a trend for logical spelling?

So today I definitely have Achilles Tendonitis. I sort of denied it yesterday when I ran leg 3 of the Cotswold Way.
But the good news is that it's just an injury and so will get better. What I mean, is that it's a not a deformity like PTT or some so called permanent problem. I limp around and can cycle.
The surgeon on the blog www.angryorthopod.com makes a big issue of not calling things like PTT an injury. He says injuries are caused by sudden trauma.