Bizarre toe injury problem

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

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Hi All,

Firstly, I'd like to say this is not a medical thread seeking advice, purely a thread asking if anyone has encountered an annoying issue I have at the moment.

Basically it started out as usual playing football about 3 months ago. Whilst playing in a usual 6 aside league, the opposition shot which I blocked, unfortunately it hit me right on my big toe, it hurt, basically felt as if I just stumped it. I forgot about it but soon after but every time then after playing football if I messed up a shot, put my foot in incorrectly, basically anything that put extra pressure on my toe this same pain would come back.

Now call it a coincidence but several weeks later, this then happened to my other toe on my other foot. (Both big toes)
So now I'm struggling playing football, I can run fine but the minute I'd catch either big toe the pain was awful and it would take a good 10 mins for the pain to go away.

Enough was enough, I went to hospital. At the time, only one toe was bothering me specifically that night after football, they X-rayd it and it all was OK so the Dr presumed it was ligament damage so I should rest for 4-6 weeks.

I did fully rest it for this time and went back to football. Same problem.

It's actually quite depressing as I love playing football, this injury has made it pretty unplayable as I'm a physical player, not being able to go into tackles ruins my game completely.

So, has anyone come across such an injury before. I hurt my toe again tonight, random ball that I blocked caught my toe. So that's it I retire from football until the problem is sorted. I'm not confident anything can be done though.

Also after I do hurt it, the pain really comes from the starting of my big toe. If I press it hurts.

I'm booking an appointment with the GP again tomorrow but don't think they will give me worthy advice to be honest. I need to take this further to a specialist I think.
 
The 4-6 week rest period is...for rest...then getting back to sporting fitness begins. Take it slowly back into your old routine.

I understand what you are going through. I broke a finger in a MTB race last year. I was given the same timescale as you and got back on the bike in 4 weeks. It wasn't the same but it was good enough for me at the time. it's frustrating I know but give it time.

FWIW a pal of mine broke a toe from (extra curicular activities) and it took him 6 months to recover.
 
I think I have something similar but maybe not as bad. Happenned 2 summers ago, went for a 50-50 ball, both our feet collided (on my right big toe)and I ended up worse off. I just knew it was bad and very painful and walked off. May have been due to me not cutting my nails short enough before the game so that took the brunt of it.

Went to A&E due to selling and broken/coloured big tow, no xray done as they thought it wasnt broken, besides you cant put a cast over your big toe anyway. Could barely walk so no work for a week. Another A&E visit after a week, nothing they can do. 3rd visit after 2-3 weeks because it's still swollen and painful and I finally get an X ray done. Apparently they cant see anything (and tell me I should have had one done sooner!!!). Basically they reckon if there had been a break, it would have healed itself already but possibly akwardly...calcified or something.

A&E prescribed ultrasound treatment (I think) for a few weeks though which "loosened" things up. But to this day, I can barely move it and it bloody hurts on hard impact. I can still play football and take shots ok, but any toe punts are painful and I'm not a physical player that much anyway.

Basically utrasound might have been a solution soon after the injury.
 
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