No medical emergency, but question about odd healing.

[Baitball Blogger]

So my husband sustained a major hit to the calf muscle when a heavy, tall foundation for a bench tipped over and hit him as he was walking away. Big bump formed on his calf and he had minor scrapes. Washing the wound, icing and neosporin took care of it, and now, five days later, he's almost all healed up. No signs of bruising. Except for one thing.

He noticed in the instep of his foot, it's all black and blue. He doesn't feel any pain. Does anyone have any idea of why this bruise formed in an area where he wasn't hit?

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Pooling of blood may occur at a location lower than the injury

due to gravity.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Makes sense.

[bottomofthehill]

3. Happens all the time when my nose would get broken

I would end up bruised around my chin. Once I took a shot in the forehead and ended up with 2 black eyes, gravity takes over.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. It is scary looking.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Same thing happened when I broke my leg.

A lot of bruising in my foot.
Nurses told me the blood pools at the lowest point.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Hard to visualize how the blood seeps out of the vascular system and into

the body, which I imagine is what is happening.

[Irish_Dem]

9. I didn't buy it at first either. I had a lot of bruising around the foot and ankle but the break

was higher up in the leg where there was not much bruising. I disputed what they were telling me, but the doctor showed me the X-ray where I could clearly see a broken bone higher up in the leg. Not much bruising at that location. Which is strange, because it was such a bad break I needed two rods and lots of pins to hold the bone together. But little bruising at that spot. But a foot that looked like it had been run over.

When an injury occurs, there can damage to the blood vessels, tissue as well as bones.
So there is a lot of blood which goes to the lowest point.

[bottomofthehill]

7. Hopefully it does not get uncomfortable.

Lots of little bones in the foot. Lots of tendon holding them in place

[Baitball Blogger]

12. It's only when he saw the bruising that it occurred to him that he might have

been hit on the foot as well, but it was minor by comparison to what happened to him on his calf muscle. We'll keep monitoring it. He's still not sure.

[IcyPeas]

8. Blood flows downward

I hurt my knee and my ankle got all bruised.

[Kali]

10. gravity works on bruises

I have had lots of big bruises over my life, they drift down hill. do be careful of internal clots, if there is lots of pain get an ultrasound.

also I had a very weird incidence a few years ago - ended up with an abscess in a spot that had bruised 9 months earlier, never opened the skin but it formed anyway and it took several surgeries and almost 2 years to finally heal.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. That's a scary experience. Glad you got good care.

If he feels pain in his foot, we'll probably take him to the doctor.

[MFM008]

11. my mom fell and broke bones around her eye in 2015.

first she had a black eye
then the bruise began to drop.
she had a bruise that went to her collarbone almost.
a slow blood leak spreads like if you put drops on a paper towel or something....

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Wow! That would have been unsettling to monitor.

Well, in my husband's case, it can't go lower than his instep.

[MFM008]

15. it was

and it lasted forever..........