Foot Pain Blog

Having pain in your foot, ankle or lower leg? Evidently you are either trying to find out what you have and what to do about it, or you have been to a doctor and are trying to reinforce what he told you. Either way you have come to the right place. I discuss various types of lower extremity problems in an easy to understand manner; (You do not have to be a doctor in order to understand the doctor). This site is constantly being updated as I continue to discuss different subject matter and add to the existing subjects already present on my site. Since I am constantly reviewing various medical sites I also include items of interest that may not be related to the lower extremity but are important enough that I would like to share with my readers.

Nov 15, 2009, Heel pain

I was playing basketball and it felt like someone hit me in the bottom of the heel with a baseball. 30 seconds later I could not put pressure on my

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Nov 15, 2009, Pain, tenderness and burning sensation behind my toes.

I have a LOT of pain, burning sensation and tenderness where my toes are connected to my feet. It also feels as if there might be a knots there as

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Nov 15, 2009, Burning sensation in toes

I am from Bangalore, INDIA. I am writing this with lot of pain actually, my mom is unwell due to the burning sensation and bad pain in her toes and

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Nov 15, 2009, ankle sprain

How long after a ankle sprain should you still have pain and swelling? I sprained my right foot in april and was in a walking boot and told to use

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Nov 15, 2009, pain in ball of foot

Developed seisamoiditis in right foot five years ago from treadmill. After staying off my foot extended periods of time, I never completely got rid

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Nov 15, 2009, Top of foot pain and swelling. Base of toes bruised after fall.

Hi, Last weekend I was walking and I fell off a curb into a small pot hole( my foot was folded sideways behind me). I had tight knee high boots on and

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Nov 15, 2009, toenail hurts when touched and it is not in grown

toenail hurts when touched even by my sock and it is not in grown Hi, Toenails can hurt even though they are not ingrown. A couple of things that

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Nov 15, 2009, stabbing pains and swelling 5 months after a minor toe fracture

five months ago i jambed my toe against the corner of a wall and broke it near the end of the toe. i buddy taped for a short period of time. doc

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Nov 15, 2009, toe turned black after bunionectomy and hammer toe surgery

After bunionectomy on left big toe and hammertoe surgery on the third toe on my left foot, the second toe on that foot has turned black. It has been

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Nov 15, 2009, Toe feels cold/painful

The toe next to my big toe feels ice cold sometimes, especially when i drive or wear high heels. I am not even 100% sure whether what I am feeling is

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Nov 15, 2009, fracture to 2nd metatarsal base not healing

According to my MRI, I have a small, incomplete non-displaced fracture to the base of my 2nd metatarsal (3mm low signal focus) along with a subacute

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Nov 15, 2009, get a sharp pain in my left big toe when I put weight on my foot.

When I stand and put weight on my left foot, I get a sharp pain in the big toe along with my 2 middle toes, the pain is bad enough to almost make me

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Nov 15, 2009, Sharp pain in the bottom of my foot when I lift my toes back, specifically the ball and along the length of the outer edge under my pinky toe.

The problem started 5 days ago when I was at my job, I am a bartender and was loading beer into the drop cooler. You have to bend over to get into

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Nov 9, 2009, foot pain on left foot

Last Sunday morning when I woke up I could hardly walk. I had the worst pain in my foot on the left foot on the left side of the foot not far from

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Nov 9, 2009, toe pain

in the middle of my second toe I have had pain for 2-3 weeks. I do not have any swelling or bruising that I can tell. I have not stubbed it or had

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