Sports & Injury Management Blog

  Welcome to our blog, dedicated to educating parents about Sever’s, a common foot condition that affects many children, it’s signs, causes and treatment options. A lot of children as they grow complain of aches and pains and as parents, we quite often put it down to “growing” pains. That…

Ball of foot pain is a general term used to describe pain that can be in the front of the foot such as the metatarsal heads, the toes or the ligaments and tendons that connect these structures together. A Plantar plate tear is when the small ligament that attaches the…

  Big toe joint pain can be many different things such as turf toe (where the joint has been placed into excessive dorsiflexion causing strain in the supporting ligaments), arthritis or sesamoiditis (inflammation of the sesamoids accessory bones). The Cause The above conditions can attribute one if not more of…

What is the Posterior Tibial Tendon? The Posterior Tibial tendon originates from the back of the lower leg (tibia), loops around the inside of the ankle bone (medial malleolus) and attaches to the navicular bone which is at the top of the arch of the foot. It is responsible for…