Symptom: Foot pain
Foot pain: Pain affecting one or both feet
Introduction: Pain can arise from a variety of causes ranging from accidental trauma to nerve conditions. Pain-like sensations often described as pins-and-needles, prickling or burning sensations are called paresthesias; see foot paresthesias. All pain or pain-like sensations need prompt medical investigation.
Detailed cause information for symptom: Foot pain:
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Types of Foot pain: Heel pain (2)
Symptoms related to Foot pain: toe pain (7), ankle pain (6), heel pain (2), leg pain (26), foot paresthesia (19), toe paresthesia (2)
Foot pain type of: Pain (604), Foot symptoms (66)
Symptoms: symptom center, symptom groups, symptom descriptions
Possible causes of symptom: Foot pain: The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Foot pain as a symptom. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.
- Simple reasons for foot pain include:
- Over-use of feet
- Poorly fitting shoes
- New shoes
- Tight shoes
- Muscle strain
- Ligament strain
- Foot trauma
- Foot injury
- Sports injury
- Obesity
- Foot strain (type of Foot injury)
- Jogger's trauma
- Flat feet
- Foot fracture
- Calcaneal fracture
- Metatarsal fracture
- Metatarsal stress fracture
- Iatrogenic foot disorder - see iatrogenic disorders
- Ankle conditions
- Ankle pain
- Ankle strain (type of Ankle injuries)
- Ankle sprain
- Ankle arthritis (see Joint pain)
- Joint conditions
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis - a surprisingly common cause of foot pain.
- Bunions
- Gout
- Septic arthritis (see Joint pain)
- Athlete's foot
- Plantar warts (type of Warts) - usually causes heel pain.
- Callosities
- Bone conditions
- Bony spurs
- Freiberg's disease
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteochondritis
- Koehler's disease
- Bone tumor
- Metatarsal fasciitis
- Subcalcaneal syndrome
- Blood vessel disorders (type of Circulatory disorder)
- Blocked arteries
- Vascular spasm
- Arterial insufficiency
- Ischemia
- Foot ischemia
- Gangrene
- Tendinitis
- Achilles tendinitis (type of Tendinitis) - see tendinitis
- Peroneal tendon tendinitis
- Tibialis posterior tendinitis
- Bursitis
- Achilles bursitis - see bursitis
- Retrocalcaneal bursitis
- Infracalcaneal bursitis
- InterMTP bursitis
- Calcaneal apophysitis
- Foot tumor
- Foot ulcer
- Hallux valgus
- Hallux rigidus
- Congenital foot disorders
- Long first ray
- Short ipsilateral lower limb
- Erythromelalgia
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- Causes of forefoot pain (metatarsalgia) - pain in the front region of the food
- Metatarsal stress fracture
- Interdigital neuroma
- Freiberg's infraction
- Gout
- Sesamoiditis
- Synovitis of MTP joint
- Dislocation of MTP joint
- Plantar wart (type of Warts)
- Plantar fat pad atrophy
- Primary metatarsalgia
- Morton's neuroma
- Plantar fasciitis
- Causalgia
- Foot tumor
- Intermittent claudication
- Buerger's disease
- Plantar verrucae
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Causes of mid-foot pain:
- Tendinitis
- Flatfoot
- Causes of heel pain or hindfoot pain:
- Plantar fasciitis
- Calcaneal apophysitis
- Calcaneal spur
- Heel pad fat atrophy
- Nerve entrapment
- Achilles tendinitis (type of Tendinitis)
- Arterial insufficiency
- Jogger's foot
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Heel fasciitis
- Peripheral ischemia
- Foot neuralgia or neuropathy pain (nerve pain) - see also foot paresthesias, tingling foot, numb foot; usually burning or tingling type pain in the foot (and often hands).
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Diabetes - see also foot paresthesias
- Polyneuritis
- Alcohol abuse
- Lead poisoning
- Raynaud's disease
- Fabry's disease - may cause burning pain in hands and feet.
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- Plantar nerve neuroma
- L4 root pain
- L5 root pain
- S1 root pain
- See also tingling toes, numb toe, toe pain and toe paresthesias
- Some causes of painful soles include:
- Plantar wart (type of Warts)
- Plantar fasciitis
- See also heel pain
Conditions listing symptoms: Foot pain: The following list of conditions have 'Foot pain' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Last revised: Nov 3, 2003
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