Hi guys - long time no write (haven't been active on the internet at all 'cept at facebook once in a while)
I have a weird problem that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere. I wrote quite a while ago about my self-diagnosis of metatarsalgia as described on this webpage: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/metatarsalgia/DS00496
Well, something else is going on down there, and has been for a while now. There's a bit of loose tissue under the ball of my foot, I can move it around with my fingers. When I step on it, it feels like a pillow. Then I can kind of grind my foot into the ground and slip in into place so I don't feel it.
What the heck is it?
I'm thinking scar tissue but maybe it's, I dunno, the remain of the joint capsule? A broken-off ligament? (I guess that'd be extremely painful, but I really don't know). It doesn't really hurt hurt, but it feels very uncomfortable and has me worried about barefooting on anything but soft surfaces, which'd suck.
Anybody else experience this or read about someone who has? I hate the idea of going to the Orthopaedist but I might end up doing that.
I'm going to experiement with lot's of deep massage to see if I can break it up. But I'd sure as heck like to know what it is all the same!
TYIA for any tips,
signed,
Concerned in Bavaria
I have a weird problem that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere. I wrote quite a while ago about my self-diagnosis of metatarsalgia as described on this webpage: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/metatarsalgia/DS00496
Well, something else is going on down there, and has been for a while now. There's a bit of loose tissue under the ball of my foot, I can move it around with my fingers. When I step on it, it feels like a pillow. Then I can kind of grind my foot into the ground and slip in into place so I don't feel it.
What the heck is it?
I'm thinking scar tissue but maybe it's, I dunno, the remain of the joint capsule? A broken-off ligament? (I guess that'd be extremely painful, but I really don't know). It doesn't really hurt hurt, but it feels very uncomfortable and has me worried about barefooting on anything but soft surfaces, which'd suck.
Anybody else experience this or read about someone who has? I hate the idea of going to the Orthopaedist but I might end up doing that.
I'm going to experiement with lot's of deep massage to see if I can break it up. But I'd sure as heck like to know what it is all the same!
TYIA for any tips,
signed,
Concerned in Bavaria