A member asked:

Big toe and ball underneath hurt bad after injury xray showed no broken bones. four days later still extremely painful.

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Dr. Olakitan Akinjagunla answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Re-xray: All injuries eventually get better. Sometimes xrays do miss some fractures. A bad sprain will still be painful because the injury is new. for now treat the foot like it has a fracture. If no improvement after a week or two, ask to have it re-xrayed

Answered 9/17/2014

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