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Running with hallux rigidus - your experience?

  • 17-06-2025 12:00AM
    #1
    JMSE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭


    Big toe joint pain. Fellow addicts, I’ve been running with this since my running birth in 2014, and have had the condition for about 20 years. Every now and again when there’s nothing else wrong with me, my attention drifts back to the old big toe joint which is never far from sore but often un-noticed. I’m used to it. A podiatrist told me I am lucky to be able keep running as some aren’t so. She said Gary Lineker had it and it ended his playing days? I won’t accredit her to that claim but it’s possible. Having been a crap ball kicker myself, I probably bigtoed the ground as much as I did the ball so that could be where the problem began as a kid. My big toe doesn’t really want to bend up or down, a bit is ok but don’t push it. If I trail run and a stone lifts my big toe up , that’s flippin amazing 🤪 (not). I wear hoka speedgoats in the mountains, and various other road shoes for everything else.
    No doubt there are way worse things and I’ll forget about the big toe again if any of those hit but what I’m wondering is , have you got hallux rigidus too and if so - your experience?



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  • #2
    FlipperThePriest
    Subscribers Posts: 736 ✭✭✭FlipperThePriest


    Have you ever had your running form looked at?

    I've had a touch of this, I never really noticed until I was doing some foot stretching. I had been trying to resolve a few of my own issues at the time, realised my adduction on one side was pretty poor, causing my foot to flick out a bit and land too heavy on the ball of my foot, rather than pronate properly. It was causing my big toe to take too much impact, arch wasn't strong enough to support proper foot mechanics. So after a fair bit of adjustment and strengthening, it has improved.

    Maybe yours isn't related to bad mechanics though?



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