The ball of your foot is the area between your toes and your arch.
Marbles between toes.
Move each marble to the empty bowl using the toes of one foot.
Pick up a marble between each of your toes it will help with the extension and flexion and stretching you toe s tendons.
A sharp or stinging pain between the toes when standing or walking.
Symptoms of hammer toe.
Repeat with the other foot.
Metatarsalgia is pain in the ball of the foot and can sometimes feel like having a lump or pebble in your shoe.
Swelling between the toes.
Spinal cord or peripheral nerve damage may cause all of your toes to curl downward.
It feels like there is a lump under the skin and there is numbness and tingling to the central toes.
Learn about the causes of metatarsalgia how to manage the condition at home and when to seek medical attention here using information verified by certified doctors.
Now let us move on the physical examination with the patient who has told you that he has pain in the ball of the foot.
See how many marbles the kiddos can get at one time.
Corns are caused by constant friction.
An x ray might help your doctor rule out other potential problems such as a fracture.
Strengthening picking up marbles with your toes is a great way to work on the strength of foot intrinsic muscles that assist with foot stability and foot arches.
Metatarsalgia is named for the five metatarsal bones in the midsection of your feet that connect to your toes.
Tingling pins and needles and numbness.
It becomes more challenging the more marbles you add.
Place two bowls on the floor in front of you one empty and one holding 10 to 20 marbles.
Feeling like there is a bunched up sock or a pebble or marble under the ball of the foot.
My toes are painful but feel numb at the same time sometimes my feet are ice cold but other times they burn i feel like i m walking on sandpaper or marbles or rocks there are electrical shocks in my toes that turn to sharp stabbing pains it feels like my socks are folded over in my shoes.
Common symptoms of hammertoes include.
Corns and calluses a buildup of skin on the toe between two toes or on the ball of the foot.
If you feel a sort of click between the toes that can also be a sign of morton s neuroma.
The first thing i do even before i touch the foot is a quick visual inventory to get an idea of the foot type.