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Post by allenuk on Mar 8, 2011 13:47:03 GMT -7
Mainly for single leg amps, as if you're bilateral then (a) respect, as I can only imagine how much harder it must be, and (b) you haven't got this problem!
Right. Single-leg amps have by definition usually got another leg/foot, known as their 'good' leg, sometimes jokingly.
Get a non-amp to stand on ONE leg, and ask them what the toes on their foot are doing, the foot on the floor that is. 99% of the time they will be gripping the floor like crazy, along with all the other bones and tendons in their foot, trying to maintain their balance.
Well, that must be what single leg amps do, to some extent or another. And it doesn't do your foot any good in the long term. In my case it's led to the snapping of my tib ant (the one that goes along the top of the foot to the big toe), and has put my toes into a semi-permanent gripping formation.
I suppose with intense physiotherapy and self-discipline it might be possible to teach yourself to relax your foot all the time, but I've not met a physiotherapist who can offer much help in this regard.
That's my theory. So is it just me, or do other single leg amps have similar 'good' foot problems as well? And if not, how do you manage not to, I wonder?
Allen
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Post by barclay on Mar 8, 2011 22:51:35 GMT -7
I don't grip with the toes of right foot - I just tested it. Tthe balance comes from the core muscles and sort of rocking back and forth on the ball of the foot.
.....however - I don't have feeling in/on the outside of the right foot (this is new) so I may be different.
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Post by abair01 on Apr 1, 2011 19:15:02 GMT -7
I lost my left leg to diabetes and so my right (good) foot is suffering the same loss of sensation to the disease. it just feels weird and hurts often.
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Post by allenuk on Apr 2, 2011 5:40:56 GMT -7
Mike:
Sorry to hear about the foot. Goes without saying, of course, that you do need to look after that one - I have very regular visits to my chiropodist/podiatrist, and a physiotherapist - and I STILL get problems with the darned thing!
Allen.
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Post by ann- on Apr 5, 2011 0:20:07 GMT -7
Some of us bilaterals tend to have a 'good leg'. My 'good leg' is the side with the longest stump and doesn't have skin grafting, over the years that has been the one with virtually no problems at all, when I had my revision amp on the other side two years ago, I wore it continually whilst the other side was healing, when using a wheelchair,for transferring etc. and it actually confused a few people that it wasn't my own leg.
Now though over forty years of good work, its playing up, am getting probs with the hip and also getting a prosthesis made that I can comfortably walk in.
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Post by abair01 on Apr 9, 2011 3:32:08 GMT -7
When I was in the recovery hospital and doing the physical therapy I got frustrated with how heavy my "full leg" weighed. It threw me way off balance on the mat. While there I was feeling sorry for myself until they teamed me up with Sydney who has lost both his legs to diabetes.
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Post by allenuk on Apr 9, 2011 12:40:12 GMT -7
Always the way, Mike. And I bet that Sydney had someone that HE felt sorry for, too.
Every time my stump hurts and I'm cursing it, I really do try and remember all those people who would love to have my minor problems instead of their major ones. It helps a bit.
The worst thing about amputation (well, one of them) is that it isn't going to get better! Same applies to a lot of the things that go wrong as you get old, like hearing and eyesight. You might get a nicely-fitting leg, or a decent hearing-aid, or pair of glasses, but still you remember ten, twenty, forty years ago, when all your bits still worked.
Life eh, who'd have one.
A.
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Post by abair01 on Apr 12, 2011 0:55:26 GMT -7
How true that is. Many times I have to rely on my sense of humor to get through these days. Friday is my 1 year anniverery of misplacing my real leg and I have many stories to tell already that would make you laugh and shake your head. I am sure you and everyone else here has stories of the strange situations they have found themselves in.
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Post by barclay on Apr 17, 2011 22:17:20 GMT -7
Misplacing ;D
shoot, I could have signed on to the board as Miss Placedleg if I'd thought of that!
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Post by thegimp on Jun 10, 2012 22:49:19 GMT -7
i never have that problem mainly cause i aint got no toes hahahahaha
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Post by cherylm on Jun 11, 2012 0:18:14 GMT -7
How'd I miss this one when it started up? I do share your "wanting to grip life crazy" problem, Allen...on BOTH my legs! It does a little bit of good (and sometimes a little bit of damage) on the "good leg" side. Calluses, blisters, the occasional hammertoe...that sort of thing. That foot gets "watched" very carefully.
If I'm trying to balance most of my weight on the prosthetic side, I STILL try to "grip like crazy." That means that I can feel the tip of my stump frantically twitching about, trying to find something to grab on to. I have very little muscle tone left on that side...just one tiny clump on the very tip...but boy it wants to grab onto SOMETHING!
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