Foot Pain is Not a Normal Part of Ageing

But my ankle just “wasn’t quite right” after that.

I put it down to getting older, and not wearing high heels very often.

Over the next few months, I wore them even less as they triggered pain across the top of my foot. I also found it difficult to walk in them – I seemed to have lost my sense of balance, and struggled over rough terrain, for example, if I had to walk down a hill.

However even without wearing heels, I felt a strange tenderness just outside my ankle joint, particularly if I tried to sit cross-legged.

“All part and parcel of getting older,” I thought.

Then I stumbled across an article about how a twisted ankle can affect you months, even years later; so I decided to visit the podiatrist who had written it.

When they tested my muscle strength, the injured foot was dramatically weaker than the other one. It seemed that when I rolled my ankle, the tremendous forces had jarred it out of alignment.

This had then affected my biomechanics (the way the body moves, particularly when walking). With things out of kilter, it was no wonder I was experiencing pain and tenderness – my body was trying to let me know that something was wrong!

Thankfully my foot pain was easily treated with a technique called Foot Mobilisation Therapy, which was much simpler than the surgery or orthotics I’d been fearing.