To keep your muscles and tendons flexible and supple, it is important to incorporate stretches that will help to correct your biomechanical inefficiencies and imbalances.
If however, your muscles and tendons are tight and stiff, it is quite easy for those muscles and tendons to be pushed beyond their natural range of motion. When muscles and tendons are flexible and supple, they are able to move and perform without being over stretched. Flexible muscles are extremely important in the prevention of most ankle and lower leg injuries.Strengthening and conditioning the muscles of the lower leg (including balancing exercises) will also help to prevent ankle and lower leg injuries.There will be limited blood flow to the lower legs, which will result in a lack of oxygen and nutrients for those muscles. Without a proper warm up the muscles and tendons around your feet, ankles and lower legs will be tight and stiff. A thorough and correct warm up will help to prepare the muscles and tendons for any activity or sport.Every time I meet a new one I try to tell them about it but then they don't pay attention, notice my foot is out, ask me to straighten it out, see that my knee gets all wacky. I still have it but certain things they've done in PT have made it seem like it might be resulting from a fixable rotation in my hip.
My doctors and PTs have different opinions on if it's fixable through PT. Every time I meet a new one I try to tell them about it but then they don't pay attention, notice my foot is out, ask me to straighten it out, see that my knee gets all wacky.fun times Significant but I don't think it's totally insane? There are a couple pictures of me running where you can see the unnatural angle, though. I had a running eval done a year ago and they measured my foot rotation to be 8 degrees in my left and 22 in my right, so that's a 14 degree difference. I have a whole lot of other injury issues though, including numbness in my left foot (non-rotated foot). They only bother me when I'm running really slowly. It's possible that it's related to your knee problem, but anecdotally, I consider myself to have very good knees with relatively few problems. Bend my right knee and it's also over my left foot lol If I stand with my feet together (not rotated) and bend my left knee, it's over my left foot. My right foot does not line up with the knee. Hey, sounds like you might have what I have!
The podiatrist didn't seem to do a very careful job of examining the situation so I'm not particularly inclined to go back. I should also note that I went to a podiatrist about a year ago and he gave me some orthotics which I wore for about 6 months, but the problem didn't get better. Do you think this ankle thing is a cause of or an effect of the knee pain? Could it be a congenital abnormality that I somehow didn't notice my first 10 years of running? Tightness and/or weakness in certain muscles? I've been dealing with knee pain (patellofemoral pain syndrome) in my right knee for the past two years with no improvement despite going to physical therapy, orthopedic, and podiatrist. I can try to consciously turn it inward to the same angle as my left foot, but then my heel turns inward (heel varus) so my foot is in a supinated position and my knee typically rotates internally along with it.Īny ideas what's going on here? Anyone ever have something similar? It's not overpronation, I have good arches to my feet. So my right foot is constantly turned outward whenever I'm running or walking.
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