YES! I feel I've finally found the right dr!!!!!! I'll probably take another rest day tomorrow, my glutes and obliques are sore from yestrdays workout! Ronne, I think to the mat has a lot that puts pressure on your foot, but I'll just fast forward through those bits as needed (I'm getting good at carrying around the DVD remote, hitting pause, FF, or rewind!). Here's my report from the dr. I hope you guys like all this info?
Hi girls! I really liked this podiatrist! He seemed extremely knowledgeable and totally explained things.
The right foot is from over compensation (I acknowledge that but seriously the PT should not have caused it to get so bad).
Left foot…..concurs with peroneal tendonitis, he did say that the radiologist report was not helpful (are they ever?). Said there is some “shredding” of both of the peroneal tendons in the left foot. It isn’t torn (crosswise), but there is shredding and that makes it weak. IT is apparent on when I push (evert foot) against his hand that left foot has no strength (right seems good).
Asked about anti-inflammatories….told him of the ibuprofin that the PCP has me on. He wants something else, a better one (good because this dosage of ibuprofin is making me feel awful). Wanted me in an ankle brace (one from them), I wasn’t excited about that as I WANT PROTECTION. He was fine with putting me in a boot and then also giving me the ankle brace for after I get out of the boot. He wants me back in PT, he acknowledged how PT wants to keep you forever and told me to just go for a bit (I agree with this as I think that last one had me start on waaaaay too hard stuff). He wants me to go to where I went for my neck (the guy that runs it is really good, it’s just how they kept having me come in and not address my shoulder knots---so I have knowledge now on how to handle PT and with my advanced age I will make sure they don’t hurt me more----plus it will be interesting to see what they have me do).
He did look at my stance to see about orthotics later. He said I do have the type of foot but wanted to revisit later. High arch and tend to roll out my foot.
So, the course of action is:
Boot for 2 to 3 weeks then transition to ankle brace, at that time start PT
Get on new anti-inflammatory (mobic)
Follow up with him in 5 weeks and will see how I’m doing. If healing well look at orthotics. If not there are 2 options:
- surgery to clean up tendons and shredding of tendons
- PRP (protein rich something---forget what the other P is), basically they take your blood separate out the good stuff and inject into the tendon----of course insurance doesn’t cover that.
He says peroneal tendonitis responds well with PT so I’m pretty hopeful the other things won’t be necessary.
This dr visit was WELL worth my $40! I’m still fuming over why didn’t orthopedic put me in a boot and a good anti-inflammatory and that PT started me off on such hard exercises (will be interesting to compare what this other PT gives me).
I can at least get around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
