People's choices and needs for running shoes vary. However, before choosing something unusual such as barefoot shoes or corrective shoes, make sure you take advice. For example, for barefoot running you need to be taught the right technique. Blisters are painful, fluid-filled lesions produced by friction and pressure. They can be caused by the following: Breaking the top of the foot is a common injury for many people, especially those who regularly play sport or engage in any other practice that risks impact. There are a great many bones in the foot, but the most common fracture is to one of the metatarsals, which are connected to each toe at the top of the foot. It’s usually possible to make a full recovery from a broken foot in around eight weeks, using the services of the NHS or a private physiotherapist. How Do You Know if You Have a Broken Foot?

Your anaesthetist will discuss pain control with you in your room prior to the surgery. This will usually involve a combination of pain relieving medications and local anaesthetic injected either by your surgeon or the anaesthetist, to make the area of the operation numb. Specialised shoes. Shoes fitted with spring-loaded braces can help prevent the foot dropping whilst walking. One type uses a cuff around the ankle, a spring above and a hook in the shoelace area which connects to the spring and pulls the foot up during walking.

Typically the stress fracture causes a tender area along the line of the second or third metatarsal bone. Keep your arm or leg raised on a soft surface, such as a pillow, for as long as possible in the first few days. This will help any swelling to go down. Broken bones bleed, so bruising and swelling can develop and you may have difficulty putting weight on the affected foot. A fusion would be advised. If you have a severe foot deformity, you may be advised to have this corrected at the same time as your ankle fusion by fusing other joints and/ or breaking and realigning the foot bones. This would be discussed at the same time as your ankle fusion. We have other information leaflets giving information about major foot fusions. It is generally not possible to change a fusion to an ankle replacement later. The foot becomes too stiff for an ankle replacement to work. We often inject local anaesthetic or steroid into damaged joints, before any surgery is considered, to see if this eases the pain. For some, this removes the pain and surgery is not necessary. For others, pain relief does not last but the results of the injection help us to decide which joints to fuse. What is involved?

Elevation initially aims to limit and reduce any swelling. For example, keep the foot up on a chair to at least hip level when you are sitting. When you are in bed, put your foot on a pillow. Sometimes rest is the only treatment that is needed, even in traumatic fracture. Stop stressing the foot Very occasionally, surgery may be necessary - for example, to re-align any part of the bone that has moved out of position. Surgery is not needed for stress fractures. Follow-up careResearch shows that 1 in 10 ankle fusions do not heal in exactly the position intended, either because the position achieved at surgery was not exactly right or because the bones have shifted slightly in plaster. This does not usually cause any problem, although the foot may not look “quite right”