You plant your foot on the floor when you get out of bed and the heel screams. After ten minutes of moving around, it eases. By the afternoon you've almost forgotten it. Then tomorrow morning, same thing. If that sounds familiar, you have the classic presentation of plantar fasciitis — and the instinct to rest it, stretch it, and pad it is probably making it take longer to resolve than it should. What Plantar Fasciitis Actually Is The plantar fascia is a thick band of connect