Re: OT: Toe Query: body modification of the lower noodly appendages?

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:19:49 GMT, kirks_bitch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:17:08 +1000, Charlie <judoman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>I have been reading a website that has some crazy ideas on disease,
>>but if you please skip those bits , you will see some disturbing
>>pictures & discussion on the de-formation of the shape of the foot.
>>
>>www.shoebusters.com/thesis.html
>
>
>I read that site when you emailed it to me and it gave me pause. Bad
>pause. Some of the things make sense. Some of them are way, way, way
>out and highly unlikely.
>
>For example, Parkinson's disease is multi factorial: I'm pretty sure
>it isn't just down to shoes.
>
>It's the typical clutching at straws some alt med folks do. A->B->C=D
>When if fact the causal links aren't there.

yep, I do agree he's fully whacko on those disease issues

>I'm not saying the feet aren't important, both bio-mechanically and
>neurologically. My stance is pretty much the same as the one in
>'Higher Judo' - artificial "retardation" in foot use leads to poor
>knee and hip mechanics, which affect things higher up, affecting
>overall motor control and 'self image'.

I just heard a story that sort of fits that idea. my new coach Cliff
has had bad back pain for a long time. His mum-in-law is a masseuse
of some sort, and somehow 'traced' the problem down though his body
and to his big toe on one foot. Thinking back, he remembers breaking
it as a kid (but no-one realizing the severity of it) and being forced
to continue daily training, fighing shiai every weekend,
squad-training etc, ignoring the pain and icing it up all the time,
but it really hurt for a year or so. And seems it may have had
consequences much later in life, which he's no recognizing & sorting
out, with regular frequent therapeutic massage & other stuff

>Dunno. Your toes looked fine to me and you already get around
>everywhere barefoot, ya damn hippy.

you're right, they're actually pretty good, not at all like those
disgusting malformed ones at the website. but a bit of weirdness
doesn't bother me (hey when i was a yoga-freak i taught myself to
vomit at will and squirt salt-water out out my nose) and if wearing a
cork to bed could fix my toes even better, maybe i'd give it a go. On
second thought, seeing as i don't really have any problems with my
feet/toes/stride, that's probably just looking for trouble.

maybe its just expression of a yearning to get into body-modification
-- I thank the Maker that i haven't been captivated by the idea of
penis bifurcation :-)

>As for the cork idea...well...I can see problems with it (and not just
>logistical ones). Still, if Mark is a podiatrist, lets have him speak
>up before I make an ass of myself.

unfortunately I haven't noticed him posting lately (or Badger South
for that matter), i may have to dig up his email. but i did get this
reply from somone i think may be in the field:

"For whatever reason, bunion deformities are mechanically based and
generally progressive, and spacers between the first and second toes
do little, if anything, to halt that progression; and certainly would
be ineffective in reversing a deformity."

>>ps. um, actually I'm just asking this for a friend of mine, yeah he
>>wanted to know
>
>is your friends name CHARLIE?

Wha?! NO! certainly not, i mean, why ever would you think that, i said
it was for my _friend_ so just shut up ok!?
.

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