It has been bothering me for awhile: a small spot just to the left of the middle of my shin bone and pain in the top of the toe on that leg when I walk. I opened the Clair Davies book and looked at all the muscles in the lower leg and massaged them. The pain did not go away. I just got a lot of bruises.

Today I went to see the physical therapist though, and he seemed to know just what was wrong. He wants me to do exercises where I hook the front part of my foot under something low to the floor and push up. I did it and it made the BACK of my calf hurt. He said I should then do calf stretches like runners do. And he showed me how to pull down the toes of that foot for a deep stretch. That seemed to give relief. Unfortunately it still hurts because I have to walk so awful much where I am now living--Manhattan. I think it was going up and down all the subway steps that caused this in the first place. But I don't know why I didn't get it in the right lower leg. It is always the left side of my body hat causes me problems it seems.