What is the cause of pain on the bottom of your feet?
There are several possibilities including the muscles on the bottom side of your foot. Those muscles can be pressed into with fingers or a tennis or golf ball. The muscles to press tend to be in the area of foot pain. They tend to be in the arch.
If those muscles are strained, wearing arch supports in your shoes may help by supporting them.
Another cause that is commonly overlooked is the piriformis muscle. This muscle runs from your sacrum (the wide, fused end of the spine just above your tailbone) to the head of your femur (top outside of your thigh bone.)
The piriformis is usually covered by the thick gluteal (butt) muscles. It can develop Continue reading “What Causes Pain On The Bottom Of Your Foot”