Numbness?

[Fievel]

I'm not sure if anybody has dealt with this problem, but when I reach about mile 4 or 5 of a long run, my right foot starts getting numb. I pronate on that foot just a bit, and have callouses on the inside of my big toe to prove it, and not sure if that's the issue.

I've tried loosening my laces, but I need them to be fairly tight to feel like my shoe is on my foot....

My left foot is almost perfectly straight through my stride....thinking the reason is that I've hurt my right knee in the past, so now somehow I'm compensating for it, even though I currently have no pain and no longer wear a brace when I run.

 

[joel_maxwell]

I'm not sure if anybody has dealt with this problem, but when I reach about mile 4 or 5 of a long run, my right foot starts getting numb. I pronate on that foot just a bit, and have callouses on the inside of my big toe to prove it, and not sure if that's the issue.

I've tried loosening my laces, but I need them to be fairly tight to feel like my shoe is on my foot....

My left foot is almost perfectly straight through my stride....thinking the reason is that I've hurt my right knee in the past, so now somehow I'm compensating for it, even though I currently have no pain and no longer wear a brace when I run.

I had a bit of that feeling in my feet before and it was the tight laces. It took a few runs to get use to looser laces, but I finally felt that me shoes werent going to fall off.

You also might have some scare tissue that is preventing 100% circulation down in your lower leg or it is cutting off some of the nerve sensation after that area gets good and swollen from the stress. You might have just answered the problem with the 2 things you listed, but Im not a MD, just an armchair problem solver.

Hope it works itself out. :wave:

 

[Nosmo King]

I had the same problem, till I found a new way to lace my shoes. I now use the first lacing as described here: http://www.northcoastfootcare.com/pages/Shoe-Lacing-Techniques.html. It's made a huge difference.

 

[Fievel]

Good run tonight after work....5 miles, and I loosened the right shoe up quite a bit from the middle of the shoe up. It seemed to do wonders, but I'm really going to look into that website to make sure I'm laced right as well.

 

[joel_maxwell]

That was an interesting link. Ill have to remember that lace up strategy in the event I start getting numbness or pain in the top of my feet. With my old Asics, I did have a little top foot pain but I think it is the way the shoe is made. My Mizuno's are heaven in a shoe.

 

[MCC1]

I had the same problem, till I found a new way to lace my shoes. I now use the first lacing as described here: http://www.northcoastfootcare.com/pages/Shoe-Lacing-Techniques.html. It's made a huge difference.

What a great link. I agree, try playing with you lace settup, I've often skip a set of eyelets depending upon where their might be a hot spot or an area that was too snug. Having previously had surgery for a Mortons Neroma on foot, I'm very sensitive to having my forefoot too snug.