Hello,
I started running with Vibram 5 finger shoes in May of 2014. I was just starting out, so doing a combo of running/walking. I was running both outside on a road, and inside on a rubberized track. I got up to running just over 2 miles at a time, 4 - 5 times per week. I was having no problems whatsoever. Then in Jan of 2015 I started running on a treadmill. To make matters worse, someone made a comment about the loud sound of my shoes hitting the treadmill, and I changed my stride to try to make it quieter. Mid-march, I did 2.3 miles on the treadmill running at a medium pace, with a 60 second sprint in there. My feet hurt. I thought I'd work it out, so did the same thing the next day. They were worse. The third day, worse yet. After the 4th day I finally realized I was in trouble and so stopped running.
The pain was in my arches. After doing some reading, I thought maybe it was plantar fasciitis, but my heels never hurt. I was really bad about stretching out ever. I saw a neurological chiropractor for 5 visits who worked on my feet. He did muscle testing on my with my shoes and said they weren't the problem. He adjusted my feet, did the grafton technique on them (deeply scraping the sole with a metal tool to break up scar tissues or something like that, was very, very painful). He said he thought my arches had fallen. He had me rolling my foot on a golf ball, and also rolling on a foam roller while gripping it with my feet, which would really hurt, and hurt a lot the next day.
Anyways, after 3 months of not running, my feet never got completely better. I just started running again this past week. I've just run a mile once, after a few days a 1/2 mile. What hurts now is mid-arch and up the inside of my feet to my ankles. Even bumping the inside of one foot against the other hurts. I'm not sure if I should keep going with the running or give it more time. I don't have good insurance, just basically hospitalization, don't trust MDs in general, am not sure my neuro chiro really knows what he is doing with regard to my feet, and am kinda out of money to spend on my feet. I don't want want to let the ability I built up dwindle by going any longer without running but also don't want to make things worse. I am the type that has no problem pushing past the pain, and that is usually my first inclination, but again, I don't want to make it worse.
Any advice from the more experienced (surely everyone else on this forum) would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Trynn
I started running with Vibram 5 finger shoes in May of 2014. I was just starting out, so doing a combo of running/walking. I was running both outside on a road, and inside on a rubberized track. I got up to running just over 2 miles at a time, 4 - 5 times per week. I was having no problems whatsoever. Then in Jan of 2015 I started running on a treadmill. To make matters worse, someone made a comment about the loud sound of my shoes hitting the treadmill, and I changed my stride to try to make it quieter. Mid-march, I did 2.3 miles on the treadmill running at a medium pace, with a 60 second sprint in there. My feet hurt. I thought I'd work it out, so did the same thing the next day. They were worse. The third day, worse yet. After the 4th day I finally realized I was in trouble and so stopped running.
The pain was in my arches. After doing some reading, I thought maybe it was plantar fasciitis, but my heels never hurt. I was really bad about stretching out ever. I saw a neurological chiropractor for 5 visits who worked on my feet. He did muscle testing on my with my shoes and said they weren't the problem. He adjusted my feet, did the grafton technique on them (deeply scraping the sole with a metal tool to break up scar tissues or something like that, was very, very painful). He said he thought my arches had fallen. He had me rolling my foot on a golf ball, and also rolling on a foam roller while gripping it with my feet, which would really hurt, and hurt a lot the next day.
Anyways, after 3 months of not running, my feet never got completely better. I just started running again this past week. I've just run a mile once, after a few days a 1/2 mile. What hurts now is mid-arch and up the inside of my feet to my ankles. Even bumping the inside of one foot against the other hurts. I'm not sure if I should keep going with the running or give it more time. I don't have good insurance, just basically hospitalization, don't trust MDs in general, am not sure my neuro chiro really knows what he is doing with regard to my feet, and am kinda out of money to spend on my feet. I don't want want to let the ability I built up dwindle by going any longer without running but also don't want to make things worse. I am the type that has no problem pushing past the pain, and that is usually my first inclination, but again, I don't want to make it worse.
Any advice from the more experienced (surely everyone else on this forum) would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Trynn