Woke up this morning with pain in my foot that felt like a sprained ankle or impact to top between the outer ankle and toes. Can’t for the life of me recall any trauma to this area, did some higher intense training this weekend, but no pain Tuesday or Monday at all. Doing google searches, it sounds like it could be gout, viral, stress fracture (feels like that having had one), etc. But again, I don’t recall anything that could have caused this, unless my youngest son climbed into our bed on my foot last night.
Are there any bite marks?
any calf or leg tightness? I had a stress fracture two years ago and sometimes when my legs are tight my feet will hurt similar to yours. Foam roller on the legs seems to help. Purely a guess but it’s like everything loosens up and relieves the tension on my feet.
What I do know is when I wear certain dress shoes I get pain on the top of my foot, again similar to stress fracture.
Could be tendinitis if there’s no bruising. There’s a term for this but I can’t recall it at the moment. I had it two years ago. Cause is typically running on a prolonged incline or running with your laces too tight.
A good friend of mine whose a professional runner had an issue similar to this. He said he had tendonitis on the top of his foot. He started to use lydiard lacing.
http://www.lydiardfoundation.org/training/lacing-the-lydiard-way/
Have long suffered with tight calves and hams. Religiously rolled just to prevent back pain. Found yoga a couple years back and it removed the need to do so much rolling and stretching. But I haven’t been. Still stretching better than I used to pre rolling. But I’ll run the grid and trigger point set though it’s motions. Just shocked how sudden and intense this is. I haven’t felt anything like this since a full sprain or when I did karate and stupidly Tried to break things with my foot.
Have long suffered with tight calves and hams. Religiously rolled just to prevent back pain. Found yoga a couple years back and it removed the need to do so much rolling and stretching. But I haven’t been. Still stretching better than I used to pre rolling. But I’ll run the grid and trigger point set though it’s motions. Just shocked how sudden and intense this is. I haven’t felt anything like this since a full sprain or when I did karate and stupidly Tried to break things with my foot.
I had something similar. I was running 70 miles a week in the mountains and all of a sudden the top of my foot hurt so bad, it felt broken. I actually tried to run the LA Marathon with the pain and ran myself into crutches for 2 days (and a DNF at mile 11).
After 2 weeks of downtime, I realized it was all coming from tight, overworked hips (glutes). What I guessed happened was when my hips gave out, my calves took over, they gave out and the pain came in. When I was recovering, the relief went in reverse. After my calf was loose, my hip started to get better. It took 2 weeks of zero running, foam rolling constantly and massage to get back up and going.
If you have what I have, it truly sucks to be you. You’re going to be out for a while but chances are you didn’t mess yourself up like my dumbass did during the race.
Sounds like this.
http://www.foot-pain-explored.com/extensor-tendonitis.html
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Could be tendinitis if there’s no bruising. There’s a term for this but I can’t recall it at the moment. I had it two years ago. Cause is typically running on a prolonged incline or running with your laces too tight.
I had this twice: once from laces too tight and once from new shoes pressing too much upon the outer ankle.
Same, I’d get this once in a while from very long runs in a pair of shoes that was a bit snug up above the toes. I could still run on it and it wasn’t painful, just a little creeky for a few days.