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  1. Backfixer

    Recovery from a (mild) stress facture

    This may or may not be a fracture, but can be a stress reaction. It may also be that your posterior part of the foot has become stiffer placing more strain into that joint. To be safe, 6 weeks is the healing period. A good sports chiropractor can be helpful since restricted joint and...
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    Feet arching inwards

    Flat feet and weak ankles often go together. The idea of strengthening the feet through barefoot walking works well for some, but one size does not fit all, especially if you are a severe overpronator. Severe overpronation will stiffen the ankles and affect the hips, causing knee pain. Also...
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    Fixing my arches

    Fix your arches? You can strengthen them with foot drills. We are all built differently, and some of us may thrive barefoot, others biomechanically may have other adaptive issues. Try foot drills. http://www.backfixer1.com/chiropractic-exercises/foot-drills/
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    Do I have morton's feet?

    Regarding mortons toe, it refers to a first toe that is shorter than the second, forcing you to spring off the second and third. Sounds like you had a stress fracture and a stress reaction may still be occuring, which may be why you are in pain. Stress reactions usually are not seen without...
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    Runner's knee

    Very likely, since you may be slightly bowlegged. They tend to hit hard on the lateral leg which tightens the it bands and can produce medial knee pain.
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    Runner's knee

    Stability shoes are like running in bricks. The problem with knee pain is one size fits all solutions don't, and our individual body mechanics and gait habits can result in the pain you describe. The problem can be as simple as your foot being very stiff. If you overpronate, it can be as...
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    Heel pain continues

    And just to riff on cavemen, getting a date was as simple as clubbing your woman :). Sorry about that, but while we were getting neanderthal.
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    Heel pain continues

    Of course, everything is theoretical until we see the video. I have seen shoulder problems destroy ones gait. Unfortunately, our health system tends to look at us as if we are parts that go bad and most of us have pains that appear to be the problem or are they? Pain needs to have a...
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    Heel pain continues

    Basically, it has to do with impact. We are all built differently and as a result, adapt to our unique body mechanics. Some of us are very asymmetrical and more prone to injury since asymmetry will distort the core, tighten the legs and reduce stride and cause the myofascia in the core to...
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    Heel pain continues

    Not everyone will do well with barefoot running if they have core issues. It sounds like you are having a problem in the core and it is likely distorted. Usually, this is a compensation to a gait style that is uneven. Typically, we see that patients who overpronate will tighten in the back...
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    Previous achilles tendonosis (insertional)

    A sports certified chiropractor is likely to take as more holistic approach and look at everything. You will miss the cause if you obsess with the area of pain. Also, going back to shod may help, but wearing an insert if needed may help more. If you read my book Cheating Mother Nature...
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    Previous achilles tendonosis (insertional)

    Actually, it is more stressful on it at the beginning. As time goes on as you adapt, the strength and endurance in the tissues will improve but there is no one size fits all. If you had problems running shod, you may have different problems running barefoot, until the bad habits or mechanisms...
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    Pain on ball of foot

    There are many possibilities here. If you change to barefoot, it will have you landing differently than shod. If you had problems shod, you may have different problems barefoot, since changing your style of running may not resolve other mechanical gait issues. Question - do you have a short...
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    Baker's cyst please help!!!

    A bakers cyst behind the right knee is generally an adhesion of the muscular and even the vascular structures there (med and lat head of gastrocs, hamstrings and popliteus. Stretching and massaging it does not solve it because the problem developed in your gait cycle, likely with over striding...
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    Plantar fascitis

    What did Libensohn say? The key is not smaller strides, but in barefoot running, it is a mid foot strike. The theory is that this will absorb shock better, yet you will require many more steps to run if you have a short stride, and you will be trotting, which is harder on the body. There is...
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    Plantar fascitis

    The pain is the symptom rather than the problem. In my experience, people who get heel pain like this often have core related issues, which causes impact problems on the ground. Splints do not solve the problem, they stretch the tissues. Usually, people who get heel pain overpronate on...
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    pain on inner/outer leg 2" below calf? ... stretches, treatment?

    Before you do anything, we first need to understand why it is sore. Often sore means strain or impact. On the lateral side of the leg it is possible that you overpronate on that side and the knee rolls in. Often, these types of problems have a lot to do with core issues, problems with leg...
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    PF + Ankle Sprain and maybe a bone bruise?

    The problems you are having are related to impact, with the first discomfort by the achillies insertion and the second by the 5th metatarsal. The problem most people have is that everyone who is a healthcare practitioner looks at where it hurts, but there is no history of why. More often...
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    Turned Navicular --> back pain

    There is more than just a navicular problem here. I am assuming that the foot with the toe problem likely flares out. Typically, with symptoms like this the tibialis posterior, the hallicus longus have alot to do with foot overpronation rather than just a navicular problem. Without actually...
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    posterior tibial tendon

    Tibialis posterior is the main muscle combined with the flexor hallicus that we spring off of. Regarding to the idea of fallen arches, unless someone has actually had a fasciotomy which is rarely done anymore, arches do not fall. If you have low arches, it is because you inherited them. If...