Standing Golf Ball Roll

How to do it

1. Stand beside a stable support and place a golf ball under the muscular arch of one foot.
2. Keep most of your weight through the other foot and use the support as needed for balance.
3. Roll slowly through the plantar soft tissues without grinding directly into the heel bone or metatarsal heads.
4. Pause briefly over tolerably tender areas while keeping pressure gentle and controlled.

Form cues

• Pain is not proof of tissue damage and more pressure is not necessarily better.
• Avoid aggressive pressure with reduced sensation, neuropathy, acute plantar injury, bruising or unexplained swelling.
• Stop for sharp, burning, numb or tingling sensations.

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