flat feet pain when running..

[albertjr]

hello i was diagnosed with MS in 2009 and now im doing crossfit, but when i run its cool but once im finished my feet swell up a lot under my feet is like a ball that prohibits me from even steping on the ground, and the pain is very horrible. the coach said it might be my shoes that they might be too tight but ive played soccer all my life and soccer shoes have to be very tight!! now this started happening about 4 months till now.

basically what i want to know is..does my MS have anything to do with this?? hope you can help me out since i 100% quitted running. all i do is the row machine instead.

thanks.

[richarme]

Hi! I was a Crossfitter for 2 years before my symptoms got too bad (lifting with random bouts of vertigo is extremely dangerous lol!) over yr ago.

I experienced the same problem with running, especially anything over 1mile. My feet throbbed, got puffy and hurt. Felt like I was walking on pebbles at times. I thought it was the shoes as well and went through about 3 different styles and nothing helped so I went to the rower and quit running all together.

I miss Crossfit but as you can atest, a big unconditioned box in the dead of summer going full tilt is no place for a person with MS!!

I hope you find a fix for your swollen feet but nothing wrong with rowing. Great all over workout :)

[twopack]

Found it!  Not as fast as Lulu but I'll post what I have anyway.

The physical therapist I referred to is Herb Karpatkin, PT, D.Sc, NCS, MSCS.   He received his doctoral degree in neurologic physical therapy and is certified as a Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Specialist and a Neurologic Clinical Specialist.  He has published and presented extensively about his particular area of expertise (MS).

Dr. Karpatkin is a nationally recognized authority on Multiple Sclerosis and Exercise yet when I heard his teleconference I noticed he had plenty of compassion for people to match his passion for the topic.   He encouraged several listeners to have their therapists call him for help in developing individualized plans of care.  

His practice is located in NYC but I was glad to see he is still making himself available to all of us via his website and a FREE consultation service.  I encourage you to take a look and/or ask him for help with particularly tough questions.  Access is at
http://www.multiplesclerosisphysicaltherapy.com/index.html


To listen to an audio recording of a teleconference Dr. Karpatkin presented for the MS Foundation in March of 2011 copy and paste to the following page:
http://www.medhelp.org/user_journals/show/281871/MS-Foundation-links--

Once there, scroll down to the section listing audio programs and choose one of the two selections titled “Strategies to Improve Walking, Balance, Strength, and Flexibility with Herbert Karpatkin, PT, DSc, NCS, MSCS.”  The programs were presented live on two consecutive nights.  Both are available so I assume there are some differences between them.  The time allotted for Q&A would differ at the very least.  

I can’t really begin to explain how helpful this presentation was to me personally.  It will have to be enough to say this man is THE singular reason I am able to direct my foot into a shoe today without triggering the painful muscle spasms that used to spread from toe-tips to knee with every attempt.  Come to think of it, I owe him an email of thanks.  I’m going to get that done.

Do yourself a favor and meet the man.  I bet Dr. Karpatkin has an answer for your question.
Mary

[Lulu54]

A PT professor at work tells me that many people with MS have flat feet  - I found that interesting.

The PT who might be able to help with this is Herb Karpatkin, PhD. His website is

http://www.multiplesclerosisphysicaltherapy.com/

There is a link to send him an email and he really does answer them.  He is one of the good guys.

http://multiplesclerosisphysicaltherapy.com/contact.html

good luck in finding a way to play,
Lulu

[twopack]

I just answered a question about exercise and mentioned a PT (practices in NYC) who specializes in working with PwMS.  He put his email address and website out as a contact for people (and their therapists) with questions.  I'm going to try to find the contact information.  Your problem sounds like a good one to ask him about.

I'm going looking.  If this works out you will HAVE TO let us in on what he has to say.  Promise?  (Just kidding but we would all absolutely love to know!)

Hope someone else can help in the interum.
Here's a link to the other topic I mentioned.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Jelly-legs-arm-whilst-exercising/show/1740425

Mary