Symptoms in your foot and ankle can include different types of pain including sharp, shooting, burning, throbbing or stabbing pains and can be constant or intermittent – i.e. come and go. Your symptoms can also refer from your back, hip or knee joints and if so, you may also be getting pins and needles, tingling, weakness, numbness, other strange sensations or pain in one or both of your legs and feet.

If the pain came on slowly and is at the back of the heel, you could be experiencing an Achilles tendinopathy.

If the pain came on slowly and is in the sole of the foot, it could be plantar fascitis.

If you have twisted your ankle, please click on the link to learn about the most common type of ankle ligament sprain.

If the pain is down the front of the shins, please click here to learn more about shin splints.

If you fell, had an accident or the pain came on suddenly then you may have torn a ligament or cartilage or even suffered a fracture, so you need to get the foot and ankle assessed by a Physiotherapist or Osteopath ASAP. Even if you have not had a traumatic injury, it is essential that you get pain and other symptoms assessed by a Physiotherapist or Osteopath so that you do not do further damage.

Clicking or crunching in the ankles can be caused by a number of things – please click on the link to learn more about ankle clicking.

Scroll further for information about common foot and ankle injuries and exercises that may be included in your treatment.