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5 years ago, intense pain started in the heels of both feet. The usual modalities were tried, cortisone injections, taping, stretching exercises, rolling of the heels on a frozen water bottle and stretching exercises. None of these worked! X-Rays were taken to rule out bone spurs and unfortunately the podiatrists at the time were not wise enough to insist on MRI'S of the feet because if they had I wouldn't be writing this now;( because 3 years later I insisted that MRI's be done and the MRI'S SHOWED NOTHING WRONG WITH THE FEET (FASCIIA)! But at that time the VA podiatrists said that surgery was my last option. They wanted to go in and with minimal invasivness release the fasciia to try and correct my condition, again, that I had on both feet. So surgery was done on the left foot ( without MRI'S); I was hopping around for a month on an already painful right foot using crutches and the surgery did not help the pain in the left foot! What did happen though as a result, is I now have a definitely higher arch on my right foot than on my left! PAIN, soon set in, in the top right front hinge/ankle area!! Any shoe or even most socks that I wear cause the pain in that area ( the top rt. front hinge/arch/ankle area) to become more and more painful the longer I have them on. Another thing that resulted is that ANY SOCK OR SHOE that I have worn since that time feels ALOT TIGHTER on my right foot than on my left!! Now all this, (besides the heel pain), was not around before the surgery; so my question is this. Can walking around with one foot having a definite higher arch than the other causing me to feel off balance, cause the pain I feel, in the ( top rt. front hinge/arch/ankle area AND be the cause of ANY SHOE OR SOCK that I wear to feel definitely tighter on my right foot than on my left? Or could it have been the hopping around I did on an already painfully heeled right foot? Or even both? Because all I know is that these problems were not there before the surgery and started 2-3 months afterwards!! This caused me to lead a very, very sedentary lifestyle
University of Rochester Medical Center
American Academy of Pediatrics
Columbia University Department of Rehabilitation
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