A month ago today, while playing yard games with the nieces and nephews, I over did it big time. I performed fast starts and stops while running, something I have not gotten to in rehab. I did it for hours. Upon waking the next day, I felt like I had a broken foot which lead to limping for several hours. I played the game again, but more gently. It seemed to resolve a bit over the next 2 weeks.
The 2 weeks after "the games," I had my 1000th Day Recovery Hike down the desert river. It was taxing on the feet and ankles. Most of us had sore swollen feet by the end. I was constantly adjusting my shoe tightness so that A) it hurt less on my foot, B) I also didn't lose a shoe in the quicksand by not having it on tight enough. I was limping the last 10 miles of the 38 mile hike. Different shoes than my normal hiking shoes. A week after this big trip, I wore clogs to work; in hindsight were probably way too tight for my still swollen feet. I woke up everyday of the following week with a pretty significant limp that was caused by stabbing pains on top of my foot/near the ankle. There is another location of pain too. It seemed to calm down a little from that week of limping, but my foot still feels swollen, different, tender, and that night aching is still there. I did manage to run a few days ago on a day I woke up with out limping, maybe it was too soon. I wrote to my PT to describe everything above but in more detail. He thought this sounded like a mild "stress reaction" which is a precursor for a stress fracture. It is a bone stress injury, bone becomes inflamed. It's caused by over doing something (too long or too repetitive) when you are under prepared for it. He thinks the extra time on my feet (aka backpacking) after the initial incident is dragging out the recovery. Before contacting a podiatrist, he suggested for the next 2 weeks get back into some low impact work (bike, walk, swim - possibly light jog only if pain free when walking) before making any decisions since things are still recent. Diagnosis of a stress reaction is usually with an MRI. Yes, I've been reading anything I can on stress reaction. Sounds like you really don't want it in your navicular.
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AuthorA 45 year old active female who tore her ACL in January 2017 (at the age of 40). Reconstructive surgery in February 2017 with bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft. Archives
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