[pct-l] tendonitis

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

I find that my own experience with foot problems and injuries shows  
that stiff boots causes them and simpler footwear cures them. My  
experience is mirrored pretty well by the articles and information  
presented in this podiatrist's web site.

http://nwfootankle.com


On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Yoshihiro Murakami wrote:

> 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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Books I've written:
~ Piper's Flight
~ Adventure and Magic
~ Santa Barbara Hikes
http://stores.lulu.com/dianesoini

We're not here for a long time, but we are here for a good time