Feet injuries are maybe not always the most serious of lesions. But even the slightest issues in the feet, can give an alteration where one limps. Which often causes a lot of compensation issues throughout the whole body.

Our feet are also the first which gets in contact with a surface when we’re walking or running. And the burden can be great. A rule of thumb; when walking the pressure put on the feet is 1.3 times one’s own body weight and between 4-6 one’s own weight when running. That’s why even minor foot injuries can be quite painful.

Feet injuries are amongst the most common sports injuries. The have twisted their ankle at some point during sport.

Find your injury in the list below:

Bruised Heel (Foot Contusion)

  • Soreness throughout the heel.
  • The cushion feels loose and slippery.
  • Signs of inflammation in the area (heat, redness, swelling, etc.).

Sunken Forefoot / Pes Planus Transversus

  • Pain in the foot that feel like walking on needles (possibly because of the corns and calluses).
  • Hardness, corns, and calluses under the middle of the cushion.
  • Resulting injury in the lower leg, knee, hip and back.

Stress Fracture / March Fracture

  • Direct and indirect tenderness of toe bones II or III.
  • Pain in the foot when walking and running.
  • Limping.
  • Swelling around toe bones II or III can be seen and felt.

Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome (TTS) / posterior tibial neuralgia

Gradually increasing pain under the toes that has burning or stinging characteristics. Most often the pains are located on the inside edge of the foot, but in some cases also in the heel, or in the heel alone.

Calcaneal Bursitis

Plantar fasciitis / Heel spur

  • Pain at the aponeurosis plantaris insertion, front part of the tendon in the arch.
  • Worsening condition when overloaded.
  • Morning stiffness and limp.
  • Heavy pain when walking on toes, or attempting to do so.
  • Prickling sensation on the outside of the foot.
  • Occasional swelling and signs of inflammation in the area.

Hyperpronation of the foot

  • Pain and tenderness along the inner foot edge, especially during and after running.
  • Pain on the inside of the Achilles tendon.
  • Pain in the lower leg (front and back).
  • Thigh and knee pain/discomfort.
  • Dilapidated arch under strain.
  • Outward rotation of the heel.

Heel spur (calcaneodynia)

  • Pain in the front of the calcaneus (heel), at the origin of the plantar aponeurosis.
  • Worsening condition when overloaded.
  • Morning stiffness and limp.
  • Heavy pain when walking on toes, or attempting to do so.
  • Swelling and signs of inflammation in the area.

Flat foot (Pes planus)