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:

Possible causes of symptom: Foot pain (149 conditions)

Medical conditions causing symptom: Foot pain (14 conditions)

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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:
- 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.

B

Broken foot ... foot pain

Buerger's disease ... foot pain worse with exertion, foot pains

D

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy ... pain in feet

F

Fabry's Disease ... burning sensations in hands and feet

Flat feet ... foot pain

G

Gout ... pain in ball of foot, pain in arch of foot

H

Heel spur ... heel pain when walking, foot pain, heel pain under weight bearing, heel pain

Hypocalcemia ... painful muscle spasm of feet

Hypoparathyroidism ... painful muscle spasm of feet

J

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis ... foot joint pain

P

Polyneuritis ... foot pain

R

Reiter’s syndrome ... heel pain

S

Sciatica ... foot pain

Sickle Cell Anemia ... foot pain

Last revised: Nov 3, 2003

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