Foot injury

[xnfx]

Hello everyone. Let me know if you ever experienced something like this.

 

About six months ago I had a sparring accident where I hit the top of my foot on my partners elbow. It resulted in a good sized lump and swelling. Probably about the size of a golf ball, right in the middle of the top of my foot. Over time under the doctors orders I rested it and massaged it down to where it is almost flat with the top of my foot, but is now hard like bone. Doctor said it was scarred tissue and you can't do anything about it. I had it x-rayed and nothing was broken, and I went to a foot docotor who said to keep massaging it. He said it may go down a little by little over time, and he said it was okay for me to continue training.

 

So now it's not sore or anything, and it's pretty much gone except for some little lumpy parts I can feel around the bones that go to your toes. Pretty much the basic calicification I think. But here's the weird part. On hot muggy/humid days, my foot will get a little fat. I can tell because my on my other foot, I can see all of the bones and vains, while when it get's muggy my injured foot will look flat and you can't make out the bones and vains. This only happens on certain occasions where it is really muggy and humid. If I wear a shoe all day and take it off, my foot looks perfect. lol. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? It's hard to imagine that I'm the only one, as I know everyone makes mistakes and misplaces kicks every once in a while.

 

Thanks!

[steveb]

I did the very same thing about 3 weeks ago. Fortunately my reaction wasn't as long lasting as yours. I also had a large bump on top of my foot and it was quite sore for about a week. Luckily, after a couple days of icing and some ibuprofin it returned to normal.

[EvilTed]

I'm continually doing it, but with much worse results

 

I've broken two toes on my right foot and cracked a bone in my left ankle.

 

I did it again last weekend sparring and think I've fractured a bone where my big toe joins on to my foot.

 

I'm not going to get it x-rayed because there's not a lot they can do anyway.

 

I can walk on it and that's all that matters.

 

Just got to learn to kick more accurately I guess

 

Osu!

 

ET

[aefibird]

One competition I once entered I went to kick waist height roundhouse and my opponent blocked with her elbow, resulting in a broken big toe for me and a sore elbow for her!

 

Also, when I was grading for my purple belt I had a similar situation. We were practicing basic combinations with a prtner. One side had to do a side thrust kick and the other person had to block and counter-attack. It was my turn to kick and my partner blocked the top of my foot with her elbow. I couldn't bear to put any weight on the injured foot and it swelled up and went black almost immediately.

 

I couldn't believe how much pain I could be in just from someone hitting the top of my foot with their elbow. Somehow I managed to get through the grading, but my foot was sore for ages afterwards.

 

The skin on the top of that foot is now a little harder than the skin on the top of my other foot.

[foreveryoung001]

I haven't anything like that happen to my foot, but I did mess up my right wrist while training sever years ago. I never went to the doctor, and it eventualy healed, but I get a sharp pain on very humid days. Since then I've asked the doctor about it, and he wanted me to do some physical therapy to see if that would help. I never bothered to follow up with the therapy, and now just deal with the pain.

 

So all in all.... I have just offered you no help what-so-ever

 

I don't want to say, "you may just have to deal with it for the rest of your life", but in reality..... you may just have to deal with it for the rest of your life.

[xnfx]

I wonder what the humidity has to do with it? My foot only comes a little fat when it's humid.

[Ricochet]

A few months ago, I experienced a simliar injury, only it was the ball of my foot that hit the elbow of my teacher (moral of the story - don't spar with the teach! ).

 

Yeah, I was limping around for a few weeks after that, but luckily I haven't experienced any long-term side effects.

 

As for the swelling on humid days - well, I can't tell you what's causing that, but I can tell you that weather often aggravates injuries and illnesses. People with rheumatism, for example, don't do so well in cold climates.

[RaidenTB]

Theoretically: increase in humidity occurring at the same time as a decrease in barometric pressure (= bad weather) could exert an effect on fluid in joints. Meaning that any existing inflamed tissue in and around joints will expand and cause increased pain.

 

That's theory, it's never been scientifically proven tough.

[xnfx]

Interesting theory. That's exactly what seems to be happening. Just more fluid in the area on humid days. You guys got any tips on getting rid of the fluid and inflamed tissue? I've been massaging it for a while (since it's happened) and just started to massage it with Thai liniment.

[RaidenTB]

Massaging with ice is supposed to help and the doctor could prescribe you some sort of anti-inflammatory gel that would keep the swelling and the pain down. Resting also helps

 

Since the doctor hasn't prescribed you anything, I think you'll just have get used to it and start predicting the weather