[pct-l] tendonitis

[Yoshihiro Murakami]

I don't want to discuss these matters, but I point out briefly.

1. The food injury is cased by the pack weight.  The stiffness of
boots is a pseudo-variable. This is not my opinion,  Anderson, L.S.
Jr. et. al. ( 2009) pointed out.

2. Last summer, the Australian woman started hike from VVR with the
full load on sandals.  But, she came back soon, crying very much. I
immediately noticed  her calf was injured. I had learned several times
with a sports doctor
what I should do. So I treated her by icing for about 2 hours, keep
warming afterwards, and stretch her muscle.  She was always putting on
boots. I don't know why she change to sandals. I think she felt very
heavy and she choose the lightest footwear. As a result, she injured.
I don't want to see such a happening again.




2010/6/3 Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>:
>
> On Jun 2, 2010, at 7:31 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
>> If you change your boots to shoes, you will suffer more serious
>> injury.
>
> I don't know that I agree with this. I got metatarsal stress
> fractures from my shoes being too rigid and having too much toe-
> spring. If you look at any boot, the toe-spring is enormous. Toe-
> spring is the curve of the last toward the toe. The stiffer the boot,
> the more toe-spring there has to be in order for you to be able to
> walk at all, and the more my toes point up in the air, the more I'm
> going to get stress fractures in my feet. The best shoes for me offer
> very little resistance at the break-point (the ball of my foot),
> provide some sort of side-to-side support so that my feet don't
> overpronate and provide a lot of width in the toebox. I have yet to
> find a boot that provides all three of those things, or even two of
> the three.
>
>
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> ~ Piper's Flight
> ~ Adventure and Magic
> ~ Santa Barbara Hikes
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>
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Hiro    ( Yoshihiro Murakami )
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Backpacking for 30 years in Japan
2009 JMT, the first America.
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