Has anyone suffered with a Morton’s neuroma? If so did it recover on its own or were injections required. This last 6 months since upping my distance to (16K) I’ve had problems with my toes going numb and a pain in the ball of my foot. So I decide to go to a chiropodist before I got to the stage of having to stop running 😩. after an hours consultation and £165 lighter I walked out with orthotic insoles and a diagnosis.
Apparently I have week ankles and glutes, tight calves and hamstrings, and a high arch, but good strong quads, apparently the weakness is causing an imbalance in my gait leading to my diagnosis.
Any advice or anyone’s own experience if they’ve got/had the same issue would be a great help. Thanks.
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Yes I have one on my left foot - very painful. Interestingly mine doesn’t hurt unless I run for an hour or more.
Best advice my consultant and physio gave me was to stretch my calf muscle. Tight calf muscles make the neuroma much worse. I was told to do stretches every day.
Yes RunNewForestRun, mine seems to play up when I get to around 6/7K. I’ve been given loads of exercise to do. So hopefully will help. I will do more calf stretches.
I haven't been diagnosed and didn't see anybody (yet; in the waiting process however, just to be sure), but in my runners (just after they've done about 100km) I have noticed I got both of my feet numb and calves too much too tight, so I had to stop twice within 5k to do stretches and massages. Numbness would normally start 20-25 min in, in those shoes, out of nowhere. In the absence of a proper advice I swapped to my old, battered shoes temporarily. It's been just a slight tingle in the right foot since, once.
I was told to do ankle and quad strengthening excercise, stretch my calves and hamstrings every day. And it’s definitely helping. Give that a try CherryCore.
Yes I have this since 10 years. I just wear a pad hooked onto my toe. Very cheap you can buy on internet. I get mine from super drug. Work a treat. No pain at all when I walk or run plus make sure shoes are wide fitting and don’t pinch. Brooks shoes are fabulous
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