How I solved my winter foot problem

It started the year I moved to the North East. I woke up at 3:00 am in the night screaming with pain — it turned out to be microfractures in the right foot. It never got solved in the US. I had to go back to India for someone to recommend physiotherapy before the pain went away.

But it came back over the years — mostly in the winter, sometimes in the summer (after lot of walking outside during COVID).

It was only very recently that I was able to find the root cause of the problem — and I was convinced that it is the root cause for sure. So, I figured I will out it out there so others know about it.

Note that Orthopaedic doctors and podiatrists are good at fixing broken bones after trauma. Not so good at finding out why something broke without any apparent reason. Sad, that doctors don’t know the things which physiotherapists do (this is what I found).

This is specific to my case, so don’t take this as doctor’s advice. But, sometimes you need to give your doctor ideas as I have found to get any treatment at all.

So, turns out there is a muscle under your foot, connected to the calf muscle from the back. Over time, unless you do the right exercises, these muscles get tight.

So, my foot pain was because of the muscle in my foot “bunching up” in the winter…