Foot Pain Explained

Foot Pain Explained

Foot pain is one of the most common afflictions that affect people worldwide. Recent studies suggest that as many as 3 out of 4 people have suffered some form of foot pain over their lifetime. Pain is usually an indicator that something is wrong and needs attention, a sort of message from the body to change something.

Follow the links below to navigate to your specific foot pain, or you can "CLICK WHERE YOUR FOOT HURTS" foot pain finder.

Foot Pain

Heel Pain / Plantar Fasciitis / Heel Spur
Heel Spurs - bony heel spurs and treatment options
Knee Pain / Chondromalacia
Lower Back Pain
Metatarsalgia / Ball of Foot Pain / Mortons Neuroma
Shin Pain and Shin Splints
Corns and Callus
Blisters
Dry Skin and Cracked Heels
Fungal Nails and Onychomycosis
Ingrown Nails and Onychocryptosis
Tinea and Athletes Foot
Illiotibial band pain / Lateral (outside) knee pain
Calcaneal Bursitis / Heel Bursitis
Bruised Heels / Fat Pad Contusions
Calcaneal Stress Fractures / Heel Stress Fractures
Severs Disease - heel painand growing pains in children
Osgood Schlatters Disease - Knee pain in children
Flat Feet/Collapsed Arches
Tired Aching Legs
Bunions (Hallux Abducto Valgus)
Achilles Pain & Achilles Tendonitis
Children's Pains (Severs Disease/Osgoodschlatters Syndrome)
Foot Pain
Over pronation
Supination
Sinus Tarsi Syndrome /Outside Ankle Pain 
Verruca and Warts
Achilles Bursitis
Ankle Sprains
Smelly Sweaty Feet
Compartment syndrome in the lower leg
Calf Muscle Cramps
Cuboid Syndrome
Freibergs Disease
Metatarsal Fractures and Metatarsal Stress Fractures
Peroneal Tendinopathy and Tendonitis
Turf Toe
Athletes Foot
Extensor Tendonopathy / Tendinopathy
Gout and the foot
Hammer Toes
Inflammed flexor tendons of the toes
Lateral ankle ligament sprains (inversion ankle sprains)
Mid tarsal joint sprain
Peroneal tendon subluxation
Plantar fascia nodule
In Toeing
Kohler's Disease
Limb Length Discrepancy (Different Length Legs)
Lisfranc's Fracture Dislocation
Mallet Toes
Navicular Stress Fractures
Overlapping Toes
Posterior Impingement Syndrome
Retrocalcaneal Exostosis / Haglunds Deformity / Pump Bump
Stress Fractures of the Foot
Subungual Exostosis
Talar Dome Fractures
Tarsal Coalition
Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
Tyoloma's and Pinch Callous
How To Diagnose and Treat Discoloured Thick and Fungal Nails
How to cut your toe nails
Plantar Fat Pad Atrophy - Ball of Foot Pain
Skin Fungal Infections and Treatment
Achilles Tendon Rupture
Anterior Compartment Syndrome
Calf muscles strains
Contusions and Bruises
Heel Spurs and Plantar Fasciitis
Lateral Compartment Syndrome
Medial Calcaneal Nerve Entrapment
High Arched Feet - Pes Cavus - Inverted Foot Types
Pes Planus - Flat feet
Posterior Compartment Syndrome
Stress Fractures of Talus
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
Articular Cartilage Damage
Bakers Cyst (Popliteal cyst)
Inflammation of Hamstrings Tendon
Inflammation of Qaudriceps tendon
Jumpers knee Patellar tendon inflammation and rupture
Lateral Cartilage Meniscus Abnormality
Lateral Knee Ligament Sprain
Lateral Meniscus Tear
Medial Ligament Sprain
Medial Meniscus Injury
Osteoarthritis of the knee
Osteochondritis Dissecans
Patella and Synovial Plica
Patella Dislocation
Patellofemoral Instability
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
Pre patella bursitis
Runners Knee
Rupture of the hamstrings tendon / hamstring tendon strain

 

Anatomy


Exercises

Calf Stretching Routine - how to increase calf flexibility
Calf Stretch Step
Calf Stretch Floor
Soleus Calf Plantar Fascia Stretch
Achilles Soleus Stretch
Soleus Achilles Tendon Stretch
Plantar Fascia Stretch
Top of Foot Stretch
Sitting Side Bend Stretch
Roll Up Back Stretches
Cat Arch Back Stretch
Gluteal Buttock Stretch Sitting
Gluteal Buttock Side Stretch
Lumbar Extension Stretch
Lumbar Spine Rocking Stretches
Lateral Hip Stretch
Deep Gluteal Buttock Stretch
Hip and Thigh Stretch
Gluteal Buttock Stretch Back
Gluteal Buttock Stretch Lying
Groin Stretch Sitting
Groin Stretch
Quadriceps Kneeling
Quadriceps Stretch Side Lying
Quadriceps Stretch Standing
Hamstring Stretch Standing
Hamstring Stretch Sitting
Lieing Hamstring Stretch
Illiotibial Band Wall Stretch



Orthotics

Orthotics / Orthotic / What are orthotics?


Information

Anti Inflammatory Medications
RICE
General Foot Health Tips
Good Things to Look for in a Shoe 
The Evolution of Walking
How to wear in orthotics
The Benefits of Stretching
Running Shoe Technology
The Windlass Mechanism in the Foot and Foot Pain
How to tie your shoe laces - learn to tie your shoes
How to choose a basketball shoe
How to choose a netball shoe
How to choose a running shoe
How to choose a squash shoe
How to choose a tennis shoe
How to choose a work boot
How to choose golf shoes
How to choose gym shoes
How to choose hiking boots
How to choose kids and school shoes
How to choose rugby boots
Body weight, foot pain and heel pain what is the relationship