About Accessory Navicular (info)
On my previous blog, read it here! , i mentioned this thing i had called Accessory Navicular. Cool name eh!. But it is indeed not as cool as it sounds.
It's basically a bone which grows in a place where it shouldn't be.
This extra bone, you may call, happens mostly to girls rather than boys, cause is unknown, it's just something you're born with.
Now...It won't cause any significant problem IF and only IF, you are not flatfooted. It is not uncommon for people to have flat feet, so, if you have one, not to worry, it's very common, but...flat feet can even contribute to low back pain. If the condition progresses, you may experience problems with walking, climbing stairs and wearing shoes.
So, when you think you feel tired or pain on your feet after a long walk, you might have it.
There is a simple way to know if you're flatfooted, just wet your feet and step on a paper, flat-foot usually have a larger foot print with almost no curve where your arch should be.
So....flat-foot combined with accessory navicular, isn't so pretty. The fact that you're flat-footed, means your accessory navicular a.k.a extra bone will be having a hard time, rubbed against your shoes/sandals or even when you're walking bare-footed.
That's when the problem starts. It causes inflammation around the area where your extra bone is located, and believe me, the pain would be unbearable for quite some time even to me, who have quite a high tolerance of pain.
So....i went to orthopedic before, in Jakarta, and when my family and i went to Penang recently to have a health screening or general check up, whichever suits you, i decided to pay an orthopedic a visit. A well-known orthopedic which my aunt went when she need to get a surgery for her knee.
There were 2 options he gave to me
1. I have to wear orthotics (special padding for flat-footed people)
2. Remove the bone by surgery.
It wasn't much of an option. With the orthotics, i would still be in pain once a while, and it looks terrible since i had to wear sport shoes or "granny" shoes (that's what i call it).
But surgery also wasn't much of an option, since it needs 2 weeks for recovery and also i need to have physiotherapy, and i don't know how it will affect the way i walk in the future.
So...i decided to keep it on hold.
I, my dear friends, bought the orthotics.
notice the arch in the middle? Yes, that's what an arch-foot supposed to look like.
I need to insert this to a sport shoes or granny shoes or whatever shoes which has to be at least 1 size bigger than your feet size, and as you can see, the sides of the shoes has to be a little bit higher as the orthotics might be seen from the outside.
It was in Penang, i didn't have bigger sport shoes, so i borrowed my mom's shoes, and she wanted it back. I don't really like shoes with laces, so...i bought this shoes from Scholl.
Yippie! it's a granny's shoes.
What happens it that, you insert the padding and it'll be like this
and you're free to walk. It's less painful than your average flat shoes *don't ever wear one if you have accessory navicular, but it's supposed to help you with the pain caused by the extra bone and no arch.
I'm a size 4, and i became size 5 or 6. In this case, i became size 6. Bought it in a hurry and i didn't have scissors to cut the extra length at the front part of the orthotics, but never mind, it feels good anyway.
Ok, this is such a boring blog with more health education involved, but i did try to find it over the internet, and was having quite a problem relating to other people.
So....i hope some people can relate to this and hopefully i'm helping someone who might need information on this.
I'm still thinking about surgery and to tell you the truth, i had a horrible experience with the orthopedic in Penang (which i decided not to disclose his name).
He wasn't that good with syringe and the day after which my pain supposed to be gone after some steroid action, i had more pain than i did before.
That didn't happen with the orthopedic who i saw in Jakarta, though it was the same thing they injected to my foot.
I felt really terrible for 2 days,the pain was unbearable, and i can't really walk right.
so...yeah...if you plan to do any surgery on that, i'd suggest you do your research right. Some say some surgeon is better with the knife rather than syringe, i say how can you trust a doctor when he can't even use his syringe right.
It's basically a bone which grows in a place where it shouldn't be.
This extra bone, you may call, happens mostly to girls rather than boys, cause is unknown, it's just something you're born with.
Now...It won't cause any significant problem IF and only IF, you are not flatfooted. It is not uncommon for people to have flat feet, so, if you have one, not to worry, it's very common, but...flat feet can even contribute to low back pain. If the condition progresses, you may experience problems with walking, climbing stairs and wearing shoes.
So, when you think you feel tired or pain on your feet after a long walk, you might have it.
There is a simple way to know if you're flatfooted, just wet your feet and step on a paper, flat-foot usually have a larger foot print with almost no curve where your arch should be.
So....flat-foot combined with accessory navicular, isn't so pretty. The fact that you're flat-footed, means your accessory navicular a.k.a extra bone will be having a hard time, rubbed against your shoes/sandals or even when you're walking bare-footed.
That's when the problem starts. It causes inflammation around the area where your extra bone is located, and believe me, the pain would be unbearable for quite some time even to me, who have quite a high tolerance of pain.
So....i went to orthopedic before, in Jakarta, and when my family and i went to Penang recently to have a health screening or general check up, whichever suits you, i decided to pay an orthopedic a visit. A well-known orthopedic which my aunt went when she need to get a surgery for her knee.
There were 2 options he gave to me
1. I have to wear orthotics (special padding for flat-footed people)
2. Remove the bone by surgery.
It wasn't much of an option. With the orthotics, i would still be in pain once a while, and it looks terrible since i had to wear sport shoes or "granny" shoes (that's what i call it).
But surgery also wasn't much of an option, since it needs 2 weeks for recovery and also i need to have physiotherapy, and i don't know how it will affect the way i walk in the future.
So...i decided to keep it on hold.
I, my dear friends, bought the orthotics.
notice the arch in the middle? Yes, that's what an arch-foot supposed to look like.
I need to insert this to a sport shoes or granny shoes or whatever shoes which has to be at least 1 size bigger than your feet size, and as you can see, the sides of the shoes has to be a little bit higher as the orthotics might be seen from the outside.
It was in Penang, i didn't have bigger sport shoes, so i borrowed my mom's shoes, and she wanted it back. I don't really like shoes with laces, so...i bought this shoes from Scholl.
Yippie! it's a granny's shoes.
What happens it that, you insert the padding and it'll be like this
and you're free to walk. It's less painful than your average flat shoes *don't ever wear one if you have accessory navicular, but it's supposed to help you with the pain caused by the extra bone and no arch.
I'm a size 4, and i became size 5 or 6. In this case, i became size 6. Bought it in a hurry and i didn't have scissors to cut the extra length at the front part of the orthotics, but never mind, it feels good anyway.
Ok, this is such a boring blog with more health education involved, but i did try to find it over the internet, and was having quite a problem relating to other people.
So....i hope some people can relate to this and hopefully i'm helping someone who might need information on this.
I'm still thinking about surgery and to tell you the truth, i had a horrible experience with the orthopedic in Penang (which i decided not to disclose his name).
He wasn't that good with syringe and the day after which my pain supposed to be gone after some steroid action, i had more pain than i did before.
That didn't happen with the orthopedic who i saw in Jakarta, though it was the same thing they injected to my foot.
I felt really terrible for 2 days,the pain was unbearable, and i can't really walk right.
so...yeah...if you plan to do any surgery on that, i'd suggest you do your research right. Some say some surgeon is better with the knife rather than syringe, i say how can you trust a doctor when he can't even use his syringe right.