Chipped Bone In Foot: Causes & Best Treatment 2019
Chipped Bone In Foot: Find out if you have a chipped bone in your foot? Or if it is something else entirely. The get rid of it!
Chipped Bone In Foot Symptoms:
It is usually pretty obvious when it is a bone through your skin.
- It feels hard.
- You can feel it continue along the bone.
- It is usually immobile and stuck to the bone surface.
- It can cause skin pain against your shoe.
- It can cause nerve pain: numbness, burning & tingling.

Causes Of A Chipped Bone In Foot:
Usually it is not even a chipped bone that is causing your worry.
- It is a bone fragment known as an osteophyte.
- Osteophytes occur usually due to arthritis or trauma to a joint.
- It is known as exuberant (extra) bone formation in an area.
- If an abnormal stress is placed on a joint, it can develop extra bone formation.
- This is most common in weight bearing joints.
Chipped Bone In Foot Treatment:
The most common sites of this extra bone formation known as an osteophyte is:
1)The Big Toe Joint:

- This is usually in relation to a condition known as hallux rigidus.
- So much extra bone can form that it decreases or even complete stops big toe joint motion.
- This leads to severe pain.
- It is known as degenerative joint disease.
- You can feel all the extra rough bone on top of your big toe joint!

2)The Top Of The Foot:
This is known as a 1st metatarsal cuneiform joint exostosis.

- This is a midfoot joint spur.
- This can compress the nerve the runs across the top of your foot.
- It can cause swelling & redness in the skin.
- It can cause numbness, burning and tingling in the nerve.

We find the best way to relieve this pain is to skip the shoelace holes immediately over this bone spur.
3)The Ankle Joint:

This is known as an anterior ankle spur.
- This can decrease the range of motion of your ankle dramatically.
- It can lead to ankle arthritis.

4)The Heel:

This is known as a heel spur.
- This is perhaps the most famous bone spur or osteophyte.
- This actually an enthesophyte, because it is caused by the pull of a muscle.
- This can happen at the bottom or the back of the heel.
- At the bottom it is related to plantar fascia pain (plantar fasciitis).
- At the back it is related to achilles tendonitis & achilles pain.

Achilles tendon bone spur is at the back of the heel were the Achilles tendon inserts.