Whether it was to drop a few pounds, to strengthen your muscles, or for better cardiovascular health, running is an excellent path to self-improvement. However, sometimes those injuries find us sidelined.
For example, have you ever wondered if your toe was broken? What about running with a broken toe? How do you know if it is broken? Your toes play a crucial role in helping to stabilize your foot with every step you take, including while running.
The toes help you to push off of the ground, propelling you forward. Ever wonder why the big toe is up to triple the size of the other toes? Due to the large role it plays in arch stabilization, the big toe also helps you to push off of the ground when you walk, run or bicycle. If you are running and find that your toe hurts, you are probably wondering what you should do. The first question is: which toe hurts? The reason this is important is that, as you just learned, your big toe is used for all kinds of things where the smaller toes are not as crucial.
If your big toe hurts, you may need to rest for a few days. That is because the big toe actually does the push-off when you run. If it is one of the smaller toes, you may be able to power through your workout. It may depend on what type of workout you have planned for the day. That is because if you are a midfoot or heel striker, the discomfort to the toes may not be as pronounced in an easy recovery run as if you were doing speed work.
This type of movement is more likely to cause toe pain! Whether you stubbed your toe against the end table or you dropped a pound weight on your foot that happened to me once!
There is a common misconception that a broken toe cannot be treated at all. That is not exactly true information. First, you can treat a break or sprain with ice.
Many people are fond of submersion icing for this. What that means is you immerse your entire foot into a bucket or basin of ice-cold water. Just be certain if you do this, you are not leaving your foot in that cold liquid for more than minutes. You should follow that by at least equal the amount of time at room temperature before using ice again. Another important thing is to rest the broken toe. Drdan wrote:. Post 4 of 18 views.
I can offer neither medical advice nor an anecdote of 'you'll be running by Wednesday'. I broke my little toe in similar circumstances fecken hurt, sounded like a 12" plastic ruler being snapped! And that toe about doubled in size volume vs the one on the other foot.
I had to wear different shoes for about 3 or so weeks at work wide running shoes not 'smart work shoes'. It took the full 6 weeks before I was able to run again. Did a 5k as part of a tri as pretty much the 1st run back.
Got around OK and didnt slow me. But it was quite sore on the last mile and defo had to leave it a few more days before another run. I was 49 when that happened. A doc said to expect weeks at my age and he was right. Post 5 of 18 views. Post 6 of 18 views. Well, I have a PhD Post 7 of 18 views. Thanks all - hopefully it will all settle down over the next few days and just be from bad bruising Post 8 of 18 views.
I broke my big toe once on a Tuesday and was running gingerly on the following Saturday. I taped it to the second toe and wore bigger shoes. Hurt for several weeks, but not much longer than 4 or 5 weeks and didn't have much trouble with it. I also broke the middle bone in my foot. That was a mistake and the pain was high for several more weeks. With a toe taped to another toe, you can have some stability if you can bear the pain.
With the foot, there's too much instability and no way to tape it to another bone. Wished I had accepted the cast from the doc and stayed off it for several weeks. Post 9 of 18 views. LEBoyd wrote:. Post 10 of 18 views. I broke the same toe 8 weeks bf Kona I was on the AlterG right at 6 weeks and was able to show up and finish the event. If you have broken your toe, please seek the care of a podiatrist.
Broken toes may cause a lot of pain and should be treated as soon as possible. If you have any concerns about your feet, contact the foot specialists from Podiatry Associates of Belleville. Our doctors will treat your foot and ankle needs. A broken toe occurs when one or more of the toe bones of the foot are broken after an injury.
Injuries such as stubbing your toe or dropping a heavy object on it may cause a toe fracture. Although the injured toe should be monitored daily, it is especially important to have a podiatrist look at your toe if you have severe symptoms.
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