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Big Toe Swelling - Articles
Big Toe Pain In Soccer
by
DrGibson
Posted
Thu 08 Sep 2011 9:00am
As I watched my daughter in soccer last night, I was thinking about several soccer playing patients I have that have sustained injuries. These injuries happen on a regular basis, and can interfere with continued soccer play. But some injuries are less problematic and can allow continued play if treated properly. One such soccer injury occurs ...
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Turf Toe Injury - A Common Problem In Many Sports
by
DrGibson
Posted
Tue 04 Oct 2011 9:00am
Turf toe is a common injury we are encountering more often in our office. When starting the practice, it was my opinion (and what I was taught) that Turf Toe was an injury from the great toe catching in the turf and not being allowed to move as normal. This, therefore, only happened in football as the cleat caught in the turf. Who else plays ...
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Can You Get Turf Toe Without Turf?
by
DrGibson
Posted
Wed 14 Oct 2009 12:00am
On a regular basis, we see patients with injuries on the football field or on the soccer field that presents to the joint at the base of the great toe. In these individuals, any movement of the big toe leads to significant pain (especially when the toe flexes up – dorsiflexion). It may also be seen with swelling or stiffness to the big ...
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My F*CKING TOE HURTS!!!
by
Bill S.
Posted
Thu 12 Feb 2009 12:00am
Ever had “gout”? No? Then you have no idea what HELL feels like.
(BTW: That is not my foot. It’s my LEFT one that has been killing me for the last nearly 72 hours.)
Let me see if I can define the pain for you. Imagine tiny little shards of broken glass, inside your big toe joint. And every time you try ...
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And In An Instant, It All Can Change
by
Kathy ..
Posted
Sat 02 Aug 2008 9:15am
2 Comments
We all know how just one little thing can change the course of our lives forever.
One moment. One instant. One second.
The same goes with training. I recall training for my first marathon, the Surf City, and during a house cleaning episode I ran my very large, very heavy chair over my big toe, which immediately swelled. I thought for sure ...
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DAYS THREE – SIX POST OP FOR OSTEOPOROSIS OF THE BIG TOE...
by
Barmac
Posted
Wed 26 Oct 2011 4:25pm
Pain became much much easier by day three with the worst discomfort in the night. You are told that you need to keep your foot free of any bedding and obviously to lie on your back in bed.
For a stomach sleeper it does take a bit to change a life times habit of going to sleep on your stomach. Fortunately it is my right foot and I sl ...
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Turf Toe Help!
by
JYorey
Posted
Sun 04 Oct 2009 11:14pm
1 Comment
Turf toe is a condition of pain at the base of the big toe, located at the ball of the foot. The condition is usually caused from either jamming the toe, or pushing off repeatedly when running or jumping. The most common complaint is pain at the base of the toe, but you may also have symptoms of stiffness and swelling.
The name turf ...
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When is a Bunion Not a Bunion?
by
Dr. Marybeth Crane
Posted
Fri 26 Jun 2009 4:18am
It happened again today in my office. A woman came in asking for bunion surgery. She had put up with the pain in her big toe for years and finally had had enough. Many years ago her family physician told her to wait until she couldn’t stand the pain in her foot before discussing surgery with a podiatrist. Like many physicians, she assumed any pai ...
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Toe Story
by
Stephanie Butland
Posted
Mon 09 Nov 2009 10:02pm
It all began in July, with a big, painful blister-type-pustule, full of something green, on the end of the big toe on my right foot. (And we're talking Rowntree's Lime Jelly before those kinds of food colourings became illegal. Lurid. You could actually see that it was green, through the skin.)
It burst. It hurt. I thought that would ...
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