Nothing, broken just some stressed out metatarsals. It was a podiatrist that I saw. I have had a small pain 1-2 of 1-10 pain scale at the top of my arch on the out side of my foot. So as a runner what do we do, lets run a race ! A 5k at my work and of course I wanted to show my fellow runners and employees, he benefits of bf running, so pushed it as hard as I was able. It was my fastest time it was 3.21 miles a little over a 5k. It was a personal best so I was excited about that. Not bad for a puggy guy 5 9 and 195 lb 24:25. I hope to lose 20 lb and see if I can break the 22 or 23 mark. I felt great and I had to much of a kick at the end. In case I had a challenge at the finish. I rested for 5 min and hopped up on the massage table for my post run recovery. And after the massage I could barley walk with pain in the top of my foot in the arch. I faked the limp until that next day and decided to see the Dr. I thought he was a family practicing doctor, nope he was a podiatrist, I found out in his office. I had a race shirt on and the nurse asked me if I was a runner. I got the full diagnosis and x ray, after I got the low down from the doc. I then told him I run barefoot. He was a runner as well. We talked about barefoot he thought like everyone else that it meant I ran with vibram toe shoes. I quickly corrected him and just like all the other thousand people I have corrected I found my self lecturing him about the nomenclature and semantics fo barefoot running. We covered Born to Run and bare foot shoes ? I lectured him just like we lecture our neophyte friends. He looked like he listened and make all the right head nods. He asked me to take off my shoes. Altra Olympus, so I did so he then put orthotics in my shoe to support the area where the bone was stressed as he showed me. I said thanks and he left the room. The nurse came in and said that will be 50.00 dollars. I quickly pulled the sport orthotics out and left them at the doctors office. That was his answer after I told him all the benefits. He then told me I could start running tomorrow with shoes, so we are even he did not listen to me and I did not listen to him. We were in the same small doctors office and were worlds apart. I am in Africa where they understand the human foot out of necessity, he on the other hand was in Las Vegas, metaphorically of course. 1 week today and I have been limping around and some cross training. I am to sore to run, as the Dr. recommended. I just started doing my stretches tonight and foot grabs with balls and flexing and it has never felt better. I will stay away from running for a week or two after all the pain. I guess the docotors are just like the rest of us still practicing things. I wounder how much kick back he gets for selling me orthotics. The stretching and strengthening was not ever mentioned in my visit as an alternative.
Thanks for listening, I would love to hear others experience with the Dr. visit