On monday evening stretching after a spell on the elliptical trainer I experienced what I thought was cramp in the right arch of my foot. The pain went after 30seconds or so and I thought nothing more of it.
Tuesday all was well until I went running. Then for the entire 1 hour run I felt a nagging ache in the arch of the foot. Not enough to impede or slow but sore enough to notice.
I iced it on my return home, but today the pain is a little more persistant, especially when I curl the toes or put a lot of weight on (Like when I am stretching). Also my right calf is quite a bit tighter than usual, but not enough to cause any pain at all whilst running.
Any ideas what the problem could be? I'm hoping its just the residue of the cramp and I can carry on exercising, but if anyone thinks otherwise then I am all ears!
Thanks in advance
PS I did a search on google for foot cramp and got a disturbing number of asian foot fetish sites - it's a strange world!!
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Also you need to look after your calf - lots of stretching as that will also be leading to your foot problem... in fact tight calves can bring on PF...
I hope you make a quick recovery.
Still will probably rest for a day or so and carry on icing etc. cannot do it any harm.
don't want to scare you or anything, just want to make sure that you don't do anything serious that will take ages to heal
The symptoms you are describing appear to be the same. I started off by having a dull ache in the arch of my foot, which at first I was able to ignore because it wasn,nt painfull enough to stop me from running. I would just massage it and ice it and carry on.
However, a couple of months down the line, the pain got worse and spread to the whole bottom of my foot. Yes you've guessed it I had Plantar Faciitus brought on by the fibres in my foot having to work much harder and over stretch to compensate for the dropped arch.
So I would definately keep an eye on the situation I would/nt want the same thing to happen to you.
Hopefully your problems are just from the cramp.
Go-KL,
What was the outcome of this injury? I'm currently experiencing something very similar...