Okay, I know I am NOT suppose to self diagnose but without a clear diagnosis from the Drs, I am still hunting for what this is. I had posted on a running group that includes trail and ultra runners a while back trying to fish for anyone that might have had the same symptoms as I. Unfortunately, I got little response other than a few people that had stress fractures. After the MRI came back negative for anything, I started hunting again. Today, there was a post that had a person complaining of pain in a similar area, so I started following the post. She had several hits on what hit might be so I tracked each one down. Then BINGO, one that sounded EXACTLY what mine was.
Flexor Digiti Minimi Brevis foot pain. Wow! While I am still convinced the initial injury was something different, the way it feels now fits this to a T! I have pain in between my fourth and fifth meta tarsal, with pain not only on the ball of my foot but on the top as well. Here is a link to an article that describes the injury. Now that I know what it might be, I might be able to track a better way to rehab this. I have contacted a few of the people who responded with having this as to what they did to rehab and haven't gotten anything back yet. The article basically says to do the things I am already doing including resting, ice and advil, so hopefully I am on the right track. My main interest is how quickly or slowly they returned to running. Technically, I have only been doing non weight bearing exercises for two weeks and not running. I had one week where I did a grand total of 2 total miles with one every other day but I don't count that week as non running.
Stay tuned to see if this theory holds! I think I am on to something, just need to figure out how to rehab this properly!
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