Injuries

I've been seeing Sports Doctors from CMCU, and Physical Therapists from McCune and Murphy, the last two months about fixing pain in my foot. I've been training around the pain, sometimes through it, for that time. The pain is not something that's new however. Last Spring, and the Spring before that, I've had the same pain. Its a reoccurring thing. This time around, I'm fed up, and motivated to fix it for good.

I've been running experiments, such as only doing a certain type of exercise for a couple days, or wearing certain types of inserts/taping, or increasing activity by different increments per day. Though these trials, my Physical Therapist and I have so far agreed that the pain is most likely caused by a weakness in the arch of my foot, which is causing the rest to collapse.



It makes perfect sense. The pain I have isn't through a certain area in my foot, but more over the entire arched area. I also have three extra bones in my foot, that cause my flexibility to be limited, which decreases my flexibility. My guess is that the combination of a collapsing arch, and limited flexibility is making certain tendons receive way too much overload, which causes tendinitis, or whatever else is causing the pain. I have a feeling its not just one thing causing the pain, but they all stem from the same problem.

This is my hypothesis so far. If I'm correct, 300lb+ squats won't be helping my foot's arch heal up. I'm going to have to stay away from things like that for now. My next appointment is on Wednesday, so I'll follow up on this entry then. I assume I will be given physical therapy exercises to strengthen the arch and strengthen balancing muscles.