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Dancer’s Foot Injuries

The 2 problems that are most common are Achilles tendinopathy and turf toe. It all start a couple months ago when I got sick of my foot problems and went researching on the internet. I found all sorts of helpful information that might help other tango dancers.

Here were my foot injury symptoms:

  • pain in a tendon near the ankle when bending my big toe upwards
  • pain in the same tendon near the ankle when curling my big toe downwards
  • clicking sounds coming from the tendon inside and just under my ankle
  • pain when rolling my body weight forward off the toes of my foot (especially the big toe)
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