Sports Medicine
Running, basketball, soccer, dance, gym workouts, and even recreational exercise place significant demands on the feet and ankles. When an injury keeps you from being active, getting an accurate diagnosis can help you return safely rather than repeatedly aggravating the problem.
Bay Podiatry Associates provides podiatric sports medicine care for foot and ankle injuries in Brooklyn.
What Sports Injuries Does a Podiatrist Treat?
Common conditions include:
- Ankle sprains
- Achilles tendon injuries
- Plantar fasciitis
- Heel pain
- Stress fractures
- Foot fractures
- Tendonitis
- Shin and lower-leg biomechanical problems
- Neuromas
- Sesamoid injuries
- Arch pain
- Repetitive-use injuries
Why Does My Foot Hurt After Exercise?
Some soreness after unfamiliar activity can be normal. Persistent, localized, worsening, or recurring pain may indicate an injury.
Training errors, inappropriate footwear, sudden increases in activity, abnormal biomechanics, hard surfaces, muscle imbalance, and inadequate recovery can all contribute.
Should I Exercise Through Foot Pain?
Continuing to train through significant pain can sometimes turn a manageable injury into a more serious problem. Pain that changes your gait, causes swelling, prevents normal weight-bearing, or repeatedly returns deserves evaluation.
Treatment depends on the diagnosis and may include activity modification, footwear recommendations, immobilization, custom orthotics, rehabilitation strategies, medication when appropriate, or other podiatric treatments.
Sports Medicine FAQs
When should an athlete see a podiatrist?
Seek care for persistent pain, significant swelling, inability to bear weight, recurring ankle sprains, numbness, weakness, or an injury that is not improving as expected.
Can custom orthotics help athletes?
They can help selected athletes whose symptoms are associated with abnormal biomechanics, excessive pressure, or alignment problems.
Can a podiatrist treat an ankle sprain?
Yes. Podiatrists evaluate and treat foot and ankle injuries, including ankle sprains.
Why does the same sports injury keep returning?
Incomplete healing, instability, biomechanics, footwear, training patterns, and strength or mobility deficits can contribute to recurrence.
Contact Bay Podiatry Associates
Get back to the activities you enjoy with an accurate diagnosis and individualized treatment plan.
Bay Podiatry Associates
8635 21 St Ave Suite 1C, Brooklyn, NY 11214
Phone: (718) 266-1986
Website: baypodiatrybrooklyn.com