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Living with PN, do you find yourself retreating from life?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Mar 5 10:44am | Replies (144)Comment receiving replies
@joanland Hi Ray nad joan. are you toes angled? from further if but for me starting to lift up on your toes worked the best of anything. I started sanding next to the sink os I had something to hang onto if I fell. Then lift my heel off the floor. and stand that way about 1 Minuet then I let the heels down for one Minute and the do it over again that way my own body weight is what I'm lifting. After a few weeks I walking unassistd on my toes for five minuets. tan a brake and did it ever again. Worked great for me . Dosen't feel real good the first few times but worked better as I went along. Good luck with your toe pro. let me know how it works.
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@quietriver
I've always attributed my angled toes to wearing shoes that were too short as a child. Shoes were very expensive and hard to come by during WWII, and money was very tight. Actually, my brother and I didn't wear shoes during the summer excepting going to town or to church, and sometimes not to town. (I remember commenting to my dad about being able to leave foot imprints in the soft asphalt during hot summer days.) And when we did wear shoes in the summer, they were the shoes left over from the previous school year, and very likely too short. New shoes came with the new school year in the fall.
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@quietriver, Joan (@joanland)
My toes are definitely distorted, angled, and compressed. They look like they'd smashed into a cement wall at 100 mph. 🙂 It's going to take a lot to get my toes un-distorted, etc. But I work at it. I use a elastic band to give each toe a little isometric exercise. There was a time when I could walk about on my toes. That was a long time ago. But I'm going to work on my toes––see if it's possible to put even a little flexibility and strength back into them.
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)