The top part of the foot, where the toes and their joints are situated, are probably the worst areas of the foot for receiving an injury. Sure, a sprained ankle may make walking painful and difficult, but so will turf toe or an ingrown toenail, although these injuries occur on smaller parts of the foot. Most of us rarely give a thought to our toes beyond regular scrubbing, trimming, and/or polishing, and most of the time our ten little toes hustle us through life with no complaint, so when you feel pain around your toes and their joints, then do what you can to ease the pain, cure the injury and help your feet get what they need to heal properly.

As small as your toes are, they can still get sprained, for the joints are kept in constant arching and flexing while you are moving around. Add to that the times when you might be wearing high heeled or too soft-soled shoes, and you increase your chances for a sprain, especially in your big toe joint, called a turf toe injury. The turf toe symptoms are similar to what you will feel for a sprain in your ankle or wrist, such as pain, swelling and redness surrounding the joint. Pain won’t just be limited to when you move your big toe, but whenever you set your weight on the foot, so it’s best to let your feet rest for as long as you can. And in fact, rest is the best way you can help your foot heal as fast as possible.

The Fitnez site declares rightly that turf toe requires rest and may also call for special bandages in compressing the toe joint, and even injuries like an ingrown toenail will require you to keep off your feet, even for a few minutes. An ingrown toenail can get more and more agonizing as the toenail digs deeper into the skin, and in the early stages you or a pedicurist can get rid of the ingrown part of the nail, while the worst cases can call for surgery to properly extract and reshape the toenail. A bunion, another disorder that affects the big toe joint, is an abnormal bump developing around the outside of the joint and comes about as a result of wearing high heels and tight shoes, and healing this foot pain doesn’t just require rest, but also special foot exercises, ice compresses, massages and getting rid of poor-fitting and heeled shoes for good. Taking ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatory drugs can help keep top of foot injuries from getting too swollen and painful, and podiatrists or foot specialists can also help with special techniques and specific advice to help your injured feet heal correctly.

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