She plans to make a full recovery and return to the court.
\n\nPhotos from Yeo Jia Min's Instagram
\n\nSingapore national badminton player Yeo Jia Min revealed that she had been battling a structural bone deformity in both feet, causing her much pain since early 2024.
\n\nShe recently had surgery for it, and is working towards a full recovery, she wrote in an Instagram post on Oct. 25.
\n\nThe Olympic shuttler shared that the deformity has been causing her insertional Achilles pain and bursitis.
\n\nBursitis is the inflammation of the fluid-filled sacs that cushion the bones, muscles, and other tissues near the joints.
\n\nThe pain was why she had to miss or withdraw from many competitions, and it plagued her throughout the Olympic qualification period and the Olympics.
\n\nYeo competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics, finishing in the group stage and in the round of 16 respectively.
\n\nWhen the pain worsened in the middle of 2025, she took some time off to rest, but it kept coming back.
\n\n"It was frustrating, confusing, and difficult to understand why I couldn’t seem to get past it," she recalled.
\n\nShe only discovered the cause of the pain after the…
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