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Most that have it never have pain. If they get pain, we call it: “Accessory navicular bone syndrome.” Accessary navicular bone syndrome affects overpronators because of irritation in this area.
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This week we are going to discuss tarsal navicular fractures which are most commonly the result of either traumatic injury or repetitive stress with young individuals and athletes demonstrating ...
Dear Running Doc: I am a 16-year-old runner. Two years ago I started having pain on the inside of my left foot. An orthopedic surgeon diagnosed the cause to be an “accessary navicular bone&#8… ...
And it’s really just about pain. The pain is still there, I still feel it a little bit, not as much as I did before. More like a two [out of 10], trending down to one.
Technical Terms Accessory Navicular: An additional ossicle adjacent to the navicular bone, which may become symptomatic and cause medial foot pain in children.
There's more to that part of the foot. "The other thing that's in that foot is a bunch of metatarsal bones, a bunch of little bones, of which, the navicular is one of them.
The condition, which affects the navicular bone on the back of the foot, between the talus and cuneiform bones can cause chronic pain and was the reason why the tennis star missed a lot of games ...