Foot injury

**Razor_Zedge** · Posted On: 7/28/2008 11:21pm

Today, after Muay Thai (My BJJ school brings in a guy once a week), I noticed that my foot hurt.

I have constructed a handy diagram to pinpoint the location:

It didn't hurt that much, so I continued on to BJJ.

After class ended, my foot began hurting more and more. After walking a block, going up some stairs and showering, it hurt so much that I couldn't put my full weight on the ball of my foot.

I got home and have been icing it on and off. I can move my toes up and down, but I've been limping to avoid placing pressure on it.

I am wondering if this is a common injury, and if so what I could do to speed along recovery (and whether I could work around it to keep training).

**Razor_Zedge** · Posted On: 7/30/2008 12:11pm

Update: After much icing and ibuprofen, it feel better and I can walk fairly well.

I'm still wondering how this happened(or what exactly the injury was), so I can avoid repeatedly getting injured in the same way.

**Snake Plissken** · Posted On: 7/30/2008 12:41pm

I severly messed up my foot and just let it go for about 6 weeks. I finally went to the pediatrist and got a shot of cortisone and felt great afterwards.

However was yours a muscle, tendon, ligament or bone injury?

Where you need to be careful is where all those small bones are at the top of the foot meeting the foot to the leg:

and all the long thin bones that construct the top portion of the foot.

You have a large amount of weight being supported by relatively thin bones, you are striking with a large amount of force on something that is kind of brittle (like your hands) comparitively speaking when you look at a femur bone.

I have taken to taping my foot and using Tiger Balm to help loosen before training.

**Razor_Zedge** · Posted On: 7/30/2008 1:19pm

Originally Posted by Snake Plissken

However was yours a muscle, tendon, ligament or bone injury?

I don't know. How would I determine that?

It feels like the pain is around the "lisfranc joint" above my big toe on that diagram.

Whatever it was, it couldn't have been to severe as I can walk pretty normally today.

**Snake Plissken** · Posted On: 7/30/2008 1:51pm

Originally Posted by Razor_Zedge

I don't know. How would I determine that?

It feels like the pain is around the "lisfranc joint" above my big toe on that diagram.

Whatever it was, it couldn't have been to severe as I can walk pretty normally today.

Well if it was a bone problem, it would still be swollen and you would have a hard time putting weight on it.