Symptoms
As elsewhere in medicine, conditions of the foot and ankle tend to produce a typical range of symptoms such as a particular type and location of pain. Alternatively, perhaps an ankle keeps giving way after a sprain or the toes have gradually clawed up. Such symptoms are the starting point for identifying what is wrong and therefore recognising which treatment is most likely to succeed. On this page we have listed many of the complaints or symptoms people bring to us. Each type of complaint suggests a range of likely underlying medical causes or diagnoses. Clicking on a symptom will take you to a page describing it and listing the most likely causes (diagnoses). Further information about those diagnoses including their treatments is found, in turn, by clicking on them. You can learn more about the treatments by clicking on them. Where this is an operation, an information leaflet about the more common ones can be downloaded.
I have ...
- Pain and or a lump in my heel
- An ankle injury which will not get better
- A weak ankle
- Pain and or stiffness in my ankle
- Flat arches / a collapsed foot
- A bunion
- Painful toes
- Pain in the ball of my foot
- An ingrowing toenail
- A stiff or painful big toe joint
- Pain and or stiffness in the midfoot
- Clawed or curly toes
- A sports injury to my foot
- Pain in my forefoot
- Pains in my shin
- A lump on my foot