Lower Leg Pain
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:34 pm
For the last 2 months or so I have been really struggling with superficial "knots" in what I think are the peroneus longus and peroneus brevis muscles (pictured here http://tinyurl.com/6rloajd )
Sometimes I take a rolling pin to them to try to get the "knots" out, but I have to be careful because it can aggrevate the peroneal nerve. Even with massaging and stretching though I can't seem to get rid of them. I am sure I have underlying muscle imbalance that is the cause. but I wondered if anyone else has issues with pain in these muscles? I am trying to figure out if it is related to my SIJD or from nerve cross-talk from the PN? It seems strange though it would be related to the PN because I do not have any nerve pain in my upper legs only burning in my feet and sometimes along the peroneal nerve if the muscles are really clamping down.
I have very high arches in my feet so I mostly wear Dansko clogs so I thought maybe that was the cause of the pain, but I've been wearing them pretty much nonstop for the last year so I don't know why it started now, but it is making it really difficult to stand hardly at all.
I have no idea what kind of doctor or if a PT could figure this pain out (I'm not currently in PT). I am a nurse, but I am SO tired of being my own doctor!
Sometimes I take a rolling pin to them to try to get the "knots" out, but I have to be careful because it can aggrevate the peroneal nerve. Even with massaging and stretching though I can't seem to get rid of them. I am sure I have underlying muscle imbalance that is the cause. but I wondered if anyone else has issues with pain in these muscles? I am trying to figure out if it is related to my SIJD or from nerve cross-talk from the PN? It seems strange though it would be related to the PN because I do not have any nerve pain in my upper legs only burning in my feet and sometimes along the peroneal nerve if the muscles are really clamping down.
I have very high arches in my feet so I mostly wear Dansko clogs so I thought maybe that was the cause of the pain, but I've been wearing them pretty much nonstop for the last year so I don't know why it started now, but it is making it really difficult to stand hardly at all.
I have no idea what kind of doctor or if a PT could figure this pain out (I'm not currently in PT). I am a nurse, but I am SO tired of being my own doctor!