Re: Anyone ever had a broken toe?

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 12:24:26 MDT

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    On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:07:04 +0100, Young Patrick (M83072)
    <Patrick.Young@sshawebmail.nhs.uk> wrote:
    > It is probably not fractured. There is not much you can do about it if it
    > is. You don't plaster a broken toe. It is immobilized by strapping to the
    > adjacent toes.

    Personal experence, I Am Not An MD, etc.:

    Or sometimes not even that. When I broke a big toe the doctors gave me a
    "frankenfoot" (my name for a sort of easily-donned canvas shoe with a thick
    stiff sole), so that when I walked, I wouldn't flex the toe(s) as much, and
    told me to "stay off it".

    As if one can do that.

    The musculoskeletal effects of walking with the single thick-soled splint
    on were so bad, I gave up and went to wearing a pair of hardsoled hiking
    boots. The pain getting them on an off was much more tolerable to me than
    the spine, hip, knee and leg effects of having one funny shoe on.

    Icing the toe frequently immediately following the incident would have been
    a good idea.

    > I would have it checked out - just to see about the trephine, at least.

    Yes, black under the toenail suggests a possible lanceable hematoma to me.

    MMB

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Rafal Smigrodzki [mailto:rafal@smigrodzki.org] Sent: 06 June 2003
    > 17:30
    > To: extropians@extropy.org
    > Subject: RE: Anyone ever had a broken toe?
    >
    > Natasha wrote:
    >> I need advise on extropic care for a broken toe. (seriously :-))
    >>
    >> I dropped a very hard piece of laminate flooring on my toe and I
    >> think it is fractured above the joint. My toe nail is black and blue
    >> and my toe is very red and swollen. It is extremely sensitive and I
    >> can't walk on it. I feel a lot of pressure at the toe - like it is
    >> going to burst - and am wondering if I should go to the doctor or
    >> just let it be and it will heal on its own.
    >>
    >> Any and all suggestions are welcome. (You can email me privately.)
    >>
    > ### Strictly as a private person, not licensed to practice medicine
    > outside
    > the state of Virginia, let me tell you: go to the doctor pronto. You
    > could
    > have a partial fracture, or worse...
    >
    > Rafal
    >
    > 

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