No surgery I took three months off then came back slow and since then I have had two instances of tendonitis and now nada. Ate a lot of anti inflammatory foods and did lots of lower extremity eccentric movements.

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Sounds like you made the right choice. Surgery sounds pretty tough to recover from. Hoping they don't discover anything too alarming on me. Mine's been getting me on the outer portion of the foot where the tendon meets the cuboid. Just curious did you do anything during the three months? No running or cycling at all? Thanks for the response.

I didnt do much no, light spinning but no hard intervals, pushing off of the wall in swimming bothered it a lot so I didnt even do much of that

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I was wondering what weird doctor gave him an MRI for it.

Just a question, what did it feel like? Can you walk? Does it feel like a bruise? Was it spontaneous?

Um, I can walk. This all started around the middle of Feb. At least that's when I first noticed something wasn't right. I continued to run and tried to ignore it, but then on March 7th I went out for a pretty easy 6 mile run and my foot hurt for most of the day to where I was limping. I went to the Dr. He diagnosed plantar and peroneal tendonitis. I believe the plantar was first and because of that I altered my stride to the outside (I'm a supinator anyway) and that made my foot hurt by the 5th metatarsal. I was training to run a marathon on the March 17th. The doctor told me I could do it. Wish I hadn't. Limped in over an hour longer than my previous marathon. I took two weeks off and went to PT religiously and did the exercises daily. I also iced and took anti-inflamatories. Tried to run with the blessing of the PT after two weeks. Did an easy 3 on Mon. and Wed. and then upped it to 4 on Friday. Then that Sunday, the April 7th I tried to run 6 miles and only made it 5 until it started to hurt and had to walk the last mile in. I felt so defeated. Went to the PT the following day and she said I tried to do too much too fast. They put me in a boot and ordered and MRI. I had the MRI yesterday afternoon and will get the results tomorrow. The foot feels okay. Not a lot of pain, but it feels weak. When I try to do the balancing, I am really weak on that side. That probably contributed to my problem. I am supposed to run the NYC Marathon in November as I got the boot last year because of Sandy. Really frustrated. I've been riding the bike and the bike trainer. The Dr and PT said I could as long as I stayed in the seat and didn't clip in. I'm really a runner and not a cyclist, but I do like to cycle to cross train. That's my sad story during a sad week in the running world.

I asked because I have been experiencing the same pain as you described. I have what feels like a terrible bruise right at the peroneal attacment anr it extends I've the baxk of my heel though with some achilles soreness. Ultrasound shows nothing so I've treated with voltaren gel. Its works great but I get rewlly sore 5 mi into a run. I have a half iron thus weekend so we will see. Ice ane nsaids for now. I also have battled PF and have been running on the outside of my foot.

hey,
ive just got my MRI back saying i have a longitudinal split tear of my peroneus brevis from my inferior tip of lateral malleolus to the peroneal trochlea. i also have a partial tear of my calcaneal attachment of the lateral root of the stem of my extensor retinaculum which measures 9mm AP X 5mm transverse?
i also have tendinopathy and tenosynovitis.
i had the peroneus brevis repaired for the same injury 7mnths ago and ankle stabilisation (atfl rupture). what do you recommend as the best approach?

I'm assuming your asking rroof, for what its worth its been years now and I never had the surgery and have been training like a maniac for years. once I was pain free it was a slow return with eccentric exercises.

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Same side! Oh bummer :(
Do they just repair it again? Or is it different the second time round??
Thank you for replying really appreciate it!

You are definitely going to want an opinion or two regarding your MRI and clinical findings. Suggest you start with your original surgeon as well and go from there. There are also newer grafts, etc. that can make the repair "stronger". Then, you need to figure out what you are doing to cause this injury pattern.

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Thank you for getting back to me again! Very kind of you :)
Well I play soccer competively and I did have a peroneus brevis tear (not sure whether it was longitudinal or transverse) when I was 15 as well..7 years ago which I had surgically repaired also!
But that healed fantastically! It's just this time after having a very bad acute injury and then having the ankle stabilisation and tendon repair it hasn't been the same. I keep getting persistent oedema and bruising and the pain can be quite horrid. Sometimes when I drive or walk on sand etc I get intermittent sharp 8/10 pains around the peroneal tendon region and then they go away completely. To play soccer is painful to warm up, I still roll my ankle even with a brace on sometimes! And very painful when i stop running etc
I don't want another surgery :( but do you think it's worth doing again? A Physio I spoke too thinks Physio might help me get rid of the pain? Is this a waste of time?
Sorry I'm just wondering because I only have a few weeks off before pre season starts again and plus I'm a registered nurse and I need to think about time! Haha so sorry to bother you with so many questions!

Just wondering how your issues was resolved. I tore my peroneal completely, so i just had surgery a week ago and it already sucks. not so much the pain, but the inability to do anything and the knowledge that i have another week in this soft cast and then 4-6 weeks in a hard cast then 6 more weeks in a boot! Oh, the thought just kills me. Do you have any idea how long it is before one is able to really get back to running and such? Hope your peroneal issue has been resolved.

Had a partial tear four years ago. Wore a boot for almost 8 weeks (wore out one boot with all the walking I did) and gradually came out of it. No running. I stopped biking because I felt it wasn't helping. After 13 weeks, I began easy biking on the trainer. Almost 4 weeks later, I began a walk-jog-walk routine on the treadmill. No problem today.