Hello everybody!
I would really like your help on this one.
I have attracted some pain in my right forefoot around the 2nd metatarsalgia (the one closest to my big toe). The pain came after walking pretty long distances barefoot on pavement. I have noticed the area under my foot is more hard than normally, I could seem like the bone is closer to the ground than the other ones. (or the skin is thinner) I have went to see my doctor and surprisingly she said: “you shoes are ridiculous! They have no padding whatsoever, you need padding!” (pointing at my homemade huaraches, that i had put on for the ocasion, thinking that she would not even talk to me if i walked in barefooted)
Hmm.
So since then I have been wearing my vivobarefoot ultras just to give some sort of padding for the hurting area, which helps, sort of. The funny thing is that I can run for as long as I want without even feeling any pain, but as soon as I take a step, ouch. So I am thinking maybe there is something wrong with my walking gait. I noticed that instead of landing on the heal like most people and then rolling along the side of the foot until the whole forefoot has made contact, I land more softly on the heel and quickly make contact with the middle of the forefoot. I am thinking this could cause some stress on the metatarsalgia.
Another note, I have moved from the countryside to the city not so long ago, meaning walking a lot more on hard surfaces with little variation.
I really would like some support from some fellow barefooters how to deal with this, as the normals docters dosn`t have anything else to say than: padding, padding and padding!
Thanks,
mikkel.
I would really like your help on this one.
I have attracted some pain in my right forefoot around the 2nd metatarsalgia (the one closest to my big toe). The pain came after walking pretty long distances barefoot on pavement. I have noticed the area under my foot is more hard than normally, I could seem like the bone is closer to the ground than the other ones. (or the skin is thinner) I have went to see my doctor and surprisingly she said: “you shoes are ridiculous! They have no padding whatsoever, you need padding!” (pointing at my homemade huaraches, that i had put on for the ocasion, thinking that she would not even talk to me if i walked in barefooted)
Hmm.
So since then I have been wearing my vivobarefoot ultras just to give some sort of padding for the hurting area, which helps, sort of. The funny thing is that I can run for as long as I want without even feeling any pain, but as soon as I take a step, ouch. So I am thinking maybe there is something wrong with my walking gait. I noticed that instead of landing on the heal like most people and then rolling along the side of the foot until the whole forefoot has made contact, I land more softly on the heel and quickly make contact with the middle of the forefoot. I am thinking this could cause some stress on the metatarsalgia.
Another note, I have moved from the countryside to the city not so long ago, meaning walking a lot more on hard surfaces with little variation.
I really would like some support from some fellow barefooters how to deal with this, as the normals docters dosn`t have anything else to say than: padding, padding and padding!
Thanks,
mikkel.