I was out for a run last Wednesday morning. The last 2 minutes of my (1 hour) jog has a slight incline. I had felt good all run. As I started the fairly shallow incline, I noticed a slight bit of discomfort around my right foots heel. (its about 1 inch up from the bottom of the heel on the right(ish) side)
I haven’t run since Wednesday, but it feels a bit “tender” if I stretch the calf.
Not sure what it is or why it has suddenly come on. Also not sure if I should run/cycle on it?
Thanks
Hurts after you run but not while? My guess would be a bone spur. I got this training for Estes Park Marathon in which I did hill repeats virtually all of the time. Lasted two years and after a ton of massage finally went away. Avoid incline, get an electric massager and use it nightly.
The opposite, only noticeable when I “run”. I have only tried jogging on the spot a few times and it just feels tender.
The bike doesn’t give it any grief, but I wonder if it could make it worse?
The opposite, only noticeable when I “run”. I have only tried jogging on the spot a few times and it just feels tender.
The bike doesn’t give it any grief, but I wonder if it could make it worse?
Bike did not hurt me either. In fact made it better.
Could be a muscle strain/imbalance. Massage might help, use a roller stick all over the right side of your leg and if you find some spots that hurt, work on them. Try your peroneus longus, which is a muscle located on the front of your leg, right side, 3-5 inches down below knee. I know the pain is in your ankle, but tendons from this muscle extend down right side of ankle underneath foot. Try also peroneus brevis which is muscle on right side of shin. Use roller stick, tennis ball, heel of other foot, fingers (least effective), and see if you find very painful spot in those muscles. Then work it (make it hurt).
Thanks, I will give that a go.
Part of me just wants to go for a jog and see if I can “run it off”. Seems odd that I only noticed it in the last 2 minutes of a run and it has been lingering (albeit virtually unnoticeable on anything other than jogging on the spot).
Maybe it was tight muscles and now its caused a bit of mild inflammation around that area?
I’ve had this for months and it’s a real pain in the ass. Could still use help from people about what to do about it. Is it a version of plantar fasciitis? It behaves and reacts pretty much the same way, but manifests as a sharp pain in the heel instead of pain on the underside of the foot.
Find anything? You can do it at your desk right now in less than five minutes. Or you can go to a physical therapist or a massage therapist who will end up doing the same thing but at great expense of time and money (that assumes that the peroneus longus is the cause – but you can diagnose that in five minutes). I found this diagram that illustrates the points you should probe. The X’s mark the spots to probe. Just push down hard with your thumbs, moving around in the general area. If you find a spot that really hurts to push, there is your problem. Massage it – it will hurt. Sometimes two massages (with a few hours between them) can solve a mild problem.
If your find a muscle trigger is the cause, then you can solve it with massage – but if it reoccurs, you need to see what caused it. I could be a muscular imbalance which requires some strengthening of other muscle groups. Or it could have been a unusual stress or overwork. Yesterday and today I am suffering from plantar fasciitis. Haven’t had it in years. I believe it is caused by the season: in the past week I spent many hours pushing a lawnmower to collect leaves at my house and a rental. Also I pushed a spreader around a soccer field. Much more stress than normal muscles in my calves. So I’m massaging the trigger points.
sounds like what i have. i roll my foot on a golf ball under my desk at work. hurts like hell
i’d get it checked out but could be planter fascitis
if so, lots of calf raises and stretching helps. also wearing strassburg sock to bed helps
just had second treatment of shock wave. a noticeable difference already
Ok,
I am now thinking this is a international achilles inury. I cant feel it other than jogging on the spot (haven’t dared try running yet). Cycling, pushing aggressivley off the wall when swimming, squatting, deadlifiting, calf raises etc… no pain.
The only way I can describe it is as “tender”. Maybe an inflamed bursa??
I ALWAYS seem to get lower leg injuries at this time of year, I cant understand why!? Lack of vitamin D??
It can either be plantar fasciitis or heel spur. I guess seeing a physiotherapist or massage therapist could be the best thing you can right now, just to get the right diagnosis. A physiotherapist can actually give you exercises (strengthening and stretching) specific to your case. Another good thing is that they can also educate you on how to prevent this injury from recurring in the future. I hope this helps! 
I had a similar pain a few years ago after training for IMFL. I actually had a mini-sized golf ball hanging off the back of my heel about an inch up. It was a bone spur that had either calcified or scar tissue around it. Not sure of the cause, possibly poor pedal stroke or too many run miles. I went to a sports podiatrist and several massage therapists who all said, yep it’s a problem. I took off several months from training but that didn’t help. Finally found a massage theraprist/chiro who is known for some pretty painful work getting people back to training. She said my calf was a mangled mess, the muscles were interwoven (in a bad way). The calf was jacked up and tight which pulled up on my Achilles which caused calcification at my heel. Over 3 months of seriously painful massage and Graston work, she got the calf muscles straightened out, heel pain down, and it’s been good ever since. I keep seeing her for maintenance and haven’t had any problems. Prior to that I thought sports massage was a waste of time and money. Once again, I’m proved wrong.
Maybe bursitis? An athlete I used to work with has had heel pain for a few months and just this week had it looked at and found out it was bursitis, which is inflammation of these small fat pads found throughout the body. If it does not get better in a few days with time off from running, I’d certainly go get it looked at.