Back in January I rolled my left foot inwards about 3 times at once when I tried to get up and didn't do any first aid or proper after care (silly, I know). I haven't been able to go to physio as I can't afford it.

The ankle itself is fine and i had no fractures. I haven't been able to run long distances without it hurting on the left side on the front of my lower leg and most importantly, haven't been able to go indoor rock climbing which is something that I love and miss. Every time my foot is on a hold, it hurts in the middle of my foot between my big toe and my heel.

Does anyone have any tips/exercises on how I can continue running and climbing without pain? I'm considering getting an MRI to see the extent of the damage. Have people needed surgery? I have very flat feet if that is useful information.

It’s coming from the ball of my foot, which is sore a lot. I have extremely high arches.

What is that popping/crunching noise and what should I be doing to fix my foot?

About two or three years ago, I broke my ankle pretty bad. I had to have surgery, and there's hardware in there now. It still gets pretty swollen and hurts sometimes, but otherwise, it's been fine. Recently, I noticed a ball-like shape on my foot, a bit further down from where it gets swollen. It doesn't hurt to the touch, but it doesn't feel hard like bone, and kinda moves around. This isn't present in my other foot, which is why I assumed it might have to do with me having broken my ankle. It's definitely something inside the actual foot. I drew kinda where it is on this image in red.

What could this be?

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I have been dealing with tendonitis since June and finally got an MRI last week. The tendonitis showed up but the other thing was an osteochondral lesion of the medial talar dome (OLT). My doctor said that showed up incidentally, but after researching it, I am wondering if that has been the problem all along.

The exact conclusion was: osteochondral lesion of the medial talar dome 1.4 x 0.9 cm with underlying cystic change and osseous stress.

The Dr didn't seem concerned and when I was going over the results with him (we were focusing on the tendonitis). I didn't know what it was, but when I got home and researched it, it seems pretty serious. Has anyone else had this or seen it on their MRI incidentally? He said some people have them and they are asymptomatic. Now, I am even more confused!

I think the rest of my toes are ok so I don't want to use toe spacers but maybe someone has experience with straighting their big toes with rubber bands or something? Thanks.

Hi all, over the past couple of days, I've had some toe related pain. The sensation is hard to describe. When I lift my toes using my foot muscles, it feels tight, and it feels like I can feel every fiber as I pull my toes up, mainly my big toe. I would describe it as almost feeling like there's a bunch of those little gel balls in the top of my foot, the kind you would find in some ice packs.

My right foot has developed tightness in the arch and somehow a knot, which hasn't happened in a long time. I feel they are unrelated, but figured it wouldn't hurt to mention.

Anyways, there may be a little swelling on the top of my left foot, the one with that gel ball sensation. There is no pain or discomfort when pulling my toes up and down using my hand, just when I try to lift using my muscles.

I don't have insurance at the moment, so I'm looking for some ideas on what it could be, and whether or not it can be treated at home.

Thank you for any input.

I injured my foot back in mid Sept. X-rays at Urgent care centre twice within two weeks, came back apparently normal. Seen one ortho surgeon was told it's a nerve injury, got a second opinion next day and was told it's a sprain. Waiting for an MRI still, but had an ultrasound this week. Got the results back last night.
" findings suspicious of a radiographically occult third metatarsal shaft fracture, with bony irregularities, and surrounding hyperaemia." 8.5 weeks later. Now I'm not sure what's going to happen as my next follow up isn't until next Friday. Attached is an ultrasound image.

, I kicked the floor with my foot out of anger. I didn't mean to hit the floor. I was just nervous and wanted to kick my backpack. However somehow it slipped and I kicked the floor really really hard with the bottom of my foot( picture). At first it hurt everytime but now only when I walk and bear my weight on that foot. I dont have any swelling or bruising. I have done an X-ray and nothing is broken. It happend 3 days ago, definetly Its better but not good. I hurts the most when i walk barefoot on the hard floor. If I am on the mat, its better, but I cant imagine jumping and running now.I am a professional judo athlete and I cant't train, but in early december I have very important competiton and I dont know how to heal this thing. Any help and advice would be good.

When I'm laying down at night and my feet are exended out toes pointed out like a ballerina my foot feels like it's being ripped apart from the inside. If I have my toes jammed up it's OK. The ripping apart feeling happens other times but I can't recall what exactly triggers. I do fine walking and running.

Does anyone know of any boots that are just as comfy as trainers to wear? I miss the look of a pair of docs but my feet are only comfortable in shoes like altras with a wide toe box and total comfort from the foam!

Hi All look for some opinions / input. Back in 2017 I experienced a lower abdominal injury that more or less left me debilitated with constant groin pain, testicle burning, testicle and pubic tugging feelings, hip ache, lower back ache and a pretty gnarly limp until about the end of 2019. During this time I saw about 4 PTs and had well over 10 different imaging tests done which showed nothing. Eventually I got to a doctor whom believe I had a sports hernia via an ultrasound doing the val salva maneuver, this was about 15-16 months into the injury and the pain was starting to subside, also to note this happened to both my left and right side, I felt a pop on each, however my left never gave me nearly as much trouble. Towards the end of 2019 I had fully recovered. Flash forward to September of 2023, I got back into weight lifting very lightly and it took a whole month until I felt an identical pop above my penis area whilst doing the adductor machine, I stopped weights immediately as I knew it was the exact same thing from last time, after a few days I developed, testicle burning, a tugging and pulling feeling, tons of tension in the front of my right leg, hip ache groin pain everywhere, I could barley walk just like years ago, my left side gave out about 3 weeks into limping around when I got out of my car I felt a sharp pull In the same area on my left. Since September I had constant discomfort back and forth between my right side and my left side, more or less miserable, unable to get out of bed, bend, cough, sneeze, sit or walk. I immediately went to PT and the PT disagreed with my diagnosis from the years prior and explained all of it was just tight hip flexors etc, while I got better, I never fully recovered, I then went to pelvic floor pt, which also didn’t help, underwent two or three more MRIs that showed nothing other than a small inguinal hernia and psoas tendinitis right side. I saw a surgeon for the hernia, and he said there’s no way this is your issue. So I pursued the idea of the sports hernia again and find a surgeon in a major city a few hours from me that works on the Columbus blue jackets and a few other major sports team. Withing minutes he said you absolutely have bilateral sports hernias and tendinopathy in your adductors. Upon surgery he concluded bilateral sports hernias, weakening and tearing of my inguinal floor and canals, and bilateral indirect and direct inguinal hernias, all of this was fixed with mesh, he also do an injection into the adductors to get them to cool off as they were tights bricks, surgery was this July 2024. Overall I am doing very well, and have been in PT since 4 weeks post surgery, still dealing with some discomfort but most of the pain itself its gone its more just ache now in the hips. What I am tring to figure out now, that my surgeon nor PT can seem to figure out is about 6 months into the injury limping everywhere, I began to develop this weird itchy tension in the front of my right leg and a burning in my foot arch as well as tingling in my foot arch, my right foot also now slopes inwards and when standing my right foot turns outwards and feels flat. My entire right leg also seems to rotate outwards and sometimes feels twisted, when I lift my right leg up and drop it there is a very loud audible clunk coming from deep withing the hip itself. Ive been working extensively on glute strength, adductor strength, core strength and stability, hamstrings and hip internal and external rotation alongside working the abductors. While my main pre surgery symptoms are going away, my right leg continues give me lots of issues, mostly when sitting, which is also where my foot arch starts to burn and tingle and sometimes my shoes feels like its getting tighter. Sorry for the enormous write up. If anyone out there has any input or ideas on this I would greatly appreciate it, its challenging dealing with this injury the first time with no diagnosis, and then getting it fixed and now running into all of this leg stuff that also seems like a mystery. Thank you all!!!

For the past month my husband and I have been stuck in a hotel without a car. We're in the middle of the desert so we have to walk through sand everywhere as there's almost no sidewalks. I've noticed the past two weeks or so I'd randomly get a shock run up my left leg starting in my ankle. It only happened every few days so I didn't think much of it. Now I'm having pain in my Achilles tendon, especially when I flex my foot towards me. I'm just wondering if this is something that gets better with rest or if it's something more serious.

If the issue isn't your shoes (or socks), it's your gait. If it's none of those, then

#see a doctor.

This subreddit isn't very active and it's not bursting at the seams with medical professionals. Even if this place were full of podiatrists, they would probably tell you that they're not YOUR doctor, and can't/shouldn't give medical advice to someone who isn't their patient.

#see a doctor!

If your toes hurt and feel squished, buy shoes that don't squish them. If you have a bunch of corns on the bottom of your feet, buy shoes that don't have a pressure point there and fix your socks. If you have a fungal or bacterial infection, let your feet breathe, wash your socks, maybe get a cream for it, and make sure your shoes are breathable and give em a wash if you can. Or just get new ones.

If you are new to the idea that your shoes could be causing all of your problems, I'll give a 101

• modern footwear is, by and large, not shaped for how human foot bones are meant to be arranged. They're too narrow, too restrictive, and can cause all sorts of issues based on that alone. Some aren't breathable and can cause sweat to stay on your skin for far too long. Some have pointed toes which can cause bunions. Shoes with high heels can magnify all of this and also put you at risk for falling and spraining your ankle. Some shoes have too much arch support for a particular individual and can weaken muscles and tendons that you need to stay upright. Or maybe you need more arch support, I don't know, I'm not a specialist.

My favorite place for anatomical foot wear is Anya's shop, she curates a list of good anatomical shoes and goes into detail about them so you can do research on things before you buy. There are some good normal looking, fashionable, and reasonably priced shoes in the lists. No one is asking you to wear those shoes that have individual toes.

• your gait could also be an issue. Do you strike the ground very hard with your heel? Do you walk too much on the inside or outside of your foot? Are you pronating? Are you "pigeon toed"? Similarly, certain athletic activities can affect your feet. Ballet dancers, gymnasts, runners. Etc.

#please see a professional

I would really like this sub to be for talking about foot function rather than pics of all yalls medical issues.

Hi everyone just looking for some general advice. Last December I had foot surgery to remove a ganglion cyst on the top center of my foot that was causing a lot of pain when walking. I had to wear a boot for two weeks and then take it easy for a while after that. I was cleared by my doctor at all my follow up appointments but still having some pain walking. She told me it could take 6 months to a year for it to be better fully.

In October of this year it started feeling so so much better no pain at all with walking and I was so excited that I could finally walk pain free again. I am an avid exerciser and have been doing everything I can do take it easy and give my foot the rest and recovery it needed. I started increasing my step count over the next few weeks and zero pain. Every day I was completely fine no swelling no pain when walking nothing.

Yesterday I woke up and my foot hurt again. I cut my walking back to less than half what I had been doing- just took my dog for a short walk and didn’t push it past that. It was sore from that. Today same thing I tried doing a short walk with my friend and now I am in pain.

Is it normal that it would have been pain free for over a month and now all of a sudden it is back? Could I have overdone it? Or should I call my doctor and see if something has been injured/changed from my original surgery? I am feeling very discouraged today and welcome any suggestions.

Hello! Back in July I was just walking barefoot in the gym when I felt a sharp uncomfortable feeling in my foot arch. Misdiagnosed with plantar fasciitis, did ESWT, didn't work, obviously.

Saw an orthopedic doctor which suggested a midfoot sprain, prescribed NSAIDs and told me to come back if things are not getting better. I did and he sent me to get an MRI done, and that's when I heard about Lisfranc ligament injuries and how nasty they are.

The results are "Subcutaneous inflammatory edema near the tendons of the extensor muscles for fingers III, IV, and V". Saw my doctor today and he said I just got to rest and return to my normal activities once the pain is gone. I've been actually resting for a month now, since I injured my knee and couldn't do high intensity activities ( same leg ).

I told him about my concern of a lisfranc ligament tear and he laughed it off and told me to stop googling. Got to admit it, I got OCD and got an issue with googling but, damn, why do I feel pain right in my lisfranc ligament?

I can walk, I was able to play football and do 10000 steps in one training with cleats on back when my knee was healthy, but going barefoot and doing calf raises were the things I avoided the most because of the pain.

Too paranoid?

I was having an enjoyable day at a trampoline park with my friends since we had the day off of school due to Election Day and there was an inflatable basketball court we were playing on and when I turned around to guard the guy driving in, I stepped in a dip in the inflatable court from my friend's foot already being there and I heard multiple pop/cracks around my ankle as I went down. I couldn't put any weight on my foot and had to hop around. Fast foward a day and a half later and I can put some weight on my foot but behind and around my ankle hurts from the touch and there is noticable swelling around the area. My foot feels really unstable and I keep losing balance as I walk.

Is this a thing? I have seen products like this marketed as an insole type thing in a shoe but can anyone recommend one that would endure a lot of barefoot walking, often with the weight of a child, on tile flooring allll day long? My feet get really warm really fast so Im always barefoot. Any recommendations to lessen the impact without substantial covering of the top of the foot?

So this literally just popped up last night. That red area is VERY painful and swollen. Like the pain is deeper in my foot. And the skin is itchy, idk if that’s just cause it’s swollen. It hurts really bad to walk. The only thing I did was work yesterday (I don’t work much) so I was on my feet a lot more than usual in some tennis shoes. I’ve had those shoes for awhile and they have never seemed to bother me. Any one know what the heck this is?

So, theoretically asking.

In the case of chronic injury/changes as listed below what is and what is not an indication for surgery.

I am trying to understand my condition and the last notice I got in an email: no reasonable orthopedic treatment possible. Because of circumstances I don't know, if the doc just wanted to lure me out or if he is dead serious about it. I did respond a month ago, no reaction so far.

In the last nearly 3 years of persueing a diagnosis I visited a few orthos and except an US I had all kind of imaging. My standing and constantly communicated theory is a spontaneously reduced midfoot subluxation from 5 years ago- not exactly with these words, 🙂. At my last appt in June it sort of got confirmed, but not explicitly, doc said: "the healed fracture at the base of the 2nd MT proves only that there was an injury". I am still in the phase of getting confirmed that there was an injury...

Previously I had ankle ligaments repair, my current condition is a mix of the two injuries.

About the findings. Some are mentioned, some are not in the rad reports. I do not necessarily agree with word choices, in that case I put both ways with a Vs. here. I know, that some of the listed findings are not significant for the matter of treatment, but my condition is also about having a critical mass of tissue damage. Needless to say, everything is chronic, I do not have a lot of shiny staff. I had 2 ankle MRIs, a CT and a spect-ct of the foot and ankle; reports are not in English, sorry for the translation.

Spect-ct, March 2024 (I don't have this one as dicom):

1. Right side diffuse low perfusion soft tissue foot and ankle,
2. Hilar normal activity at the knees,
3. No active bone lesions, bone activity is alike in both feet,
4. Right side red bone marrow turnover in calceneus (not in the report, 3rd doc said it).

CT, July 2023:

5. Decreasing joint spaces with osteophytes TMT1-TMT2 (vs. plantar osteophytes)
6. Starting medial subchondral cyst in tibia

2nd MRI, January 2023:

7. Scarred deltoid
8. Reactive bone growth medial malleolus and medial side talus
9. Not readable ATFL
10. Chondropathy TMT1
11. Subchondral BME TMT1 Vs. subtendinous BME (under TA in MC)

What was not mentioned: 12. Fully torn DCCL, BL, P-LF, D-LF ligaments, 13. Sprained interCN, interMT, IO-LF ligaments, 14. Sprained/scarred aitfl, pitfl-, CFL, ptfl, 15. Enthesopyhte plantar aspect 1MT (PL), medial malleolus ("pulley" TP) 16. High signal/ scarring springs ligament 16. Healed fx of the base of 2nd -maybe 4th- MT, all CNs and the navicular

In the first MRI report (June 2022) there is nothing remarkable, only the red bone marrow was mentioned in the calcaneus.

After my -pain in the ass- list of questions in March the diffuse low perfusion changed into enthesopathy soft tissue foot and ankle.

Thanks, if you got so far with reading.

(In fact I do not expect a lot of reactions, but I can try.)

In January of 2024 I got black out drunk at my friend’s birthday party at the beach. The next morning I woke up with immense pain in my big toe joint I could hardly walk. It felt like a pain in the joint where if I popped it I might have felt so relief so I pulled and pulled on it… I know very stupid. I then went to urgent care where they said I probably sprained it but the x ray showed no evidence of a break or sprain. For the next four months I would get random flair ups on the outer side of my big toe joint that hurt very badly effecting my work life. I had to quit my job because the pain was so bad. I wore a boot for 3 weeks I got a cortisone shot and still the pain persisted. I saw a surgeon who said that my mri wasn’t able to tell him everything he need to know to resolve my issue. He advised me to undergo surgery to see what is going on with his eye as he’s been doing foot surgery for a very long time. He ended up finding a miniscoid lesion or miniscoid body in my big toe joint. He removed it and thought that would be the end of my pain. I’m three months post opt and the flare ups are still continuing consistently. They are random but seem to be more intense after walking for extended periods of time. This injury has greatly affected my life and my mental health and I just want it all to end so badly. I wear hokas and do my physical therapy everyday ice and compress. Does anyone have any advice for this nightmare I’m living? I’m coming up on a year of these flair ups

I have an 8-month-old sprain that is chronic (I've re-injured it 4 times since then). If I walk on it too much, or stand on it too much, it feels very unstable and weak, but also quite painful. So I haven't been able to live my life normally, like going on a hike, or walking across my college campus back and forth to my car. Really the bare minimum; I don't run on it or do jumping jacks or anything crazy.

My doctor mentioned my ligaments are hyper flexible, mentioned EDS but he isn't totally sure, and said physical therapy likely will not help with that. My options are basically to wear a brace consistently, like daily, or to do surgery. Now we touched on the instability, but I forgot to ask him if surgery helps with the pain and soreness from an extended amount of walking. Or will I always be limited in how much walking/activity I can do? That is very disappointing because I'm pretty young.

I have been dealing with this issue for about 6 years now. When I am walking on hard surfaces, as my right foot goes over the ball of my foot, there is a distinct clicking sensation and mild pain around the second metatarsal. I have seen multiple podiatrists and had X-ray, ultrasound and MRI and no one knows what the issue is (Morton’s neuroma didn’t show up on MRI).

I have noticed that I have started walking with a lot more pressure on my big toe as I go through my gait I think in an attempt to take some pressure off the ball of my foot and I’m worried this might cause further issues down the track.

Not sure if related: I believe I have lack of mobility of hip internal rotation on this side. I also get a clicking (no pain) around my Achilles area when straightening (pointing the toe) my right ankle.

I am 31 years old and otherwise fit and healthy. Can anyone help me please?