Iontophoresis - adverse reaction?

[KnottedYet]

I don't know your PT, and I don't know the situation with your tendonitis. So take everything I say with a grain of salt.

If your gut instinct is to find a different PT, I say go with your gut.

7 iontos in 2 weeks is rather unusual in my experience. Continuing when the patient is having an adverse reaction is also rather unusual. (It may prickle or tingle, but it should never sting and burn.)

How is your foot now? Giving your doc's office a call might still be a good idea.

And please don't get any more ionto treatments.

[RolliePollie]

Thanks Knotted...I really like hearing another knowledgeable person's opinion! I hate being a patient who doesn't know anything...I just have to blindly trust the PT to do whatever he thinks we need to do. Not that I'm certain he did anything wrong. I'm sure that he didn't have any bad intentions, but he did kind of blow me off when I complained about the ionto pain and the new foot symptoms. Luckily, I don't have another appointment until after Christmas, so that will give my foot some time to do its own thing. And if it's not better by then, I'll be calling the Dr. and cancelling the PT appointment!

It is better tonight but still doing weird things...like now the pain has moved to another new place and is gone from the old places. I kind of think my foot is possessed. Or maybe I'm just crazy!

[KnottedYet]

What kind of exercises does the PT have you doing? Are you doing a lot of foot/ankle posture exercises in a mirror (to watch the posture)? Are you doing a bunch of very silly looking toe exercises to strengthen your intrinsic muscles? Do you have calf raises in a few different postions to strengthen the extrinsic muscles? Hips have a lot to do with the feet/ankles in women, does he have you doing hip external rotation exercises like clamshells, and hip abduction exercises like side leg raises?

What kind of insoles did he have you buy for your shoes? Did he put wedges on the undersides of the insoles to help align your ankle and foot bones and take stress off the tendons and ligaments? Do the insoles have a deep heel cup?

If he's doing a good job with the rest of it, and just got overenthusiastic about ionto, then maybe I was being too harsh when I said go ahead and get a new PT. But I really think you will be better off if you DON'T get another ionto.