My big toes cannot bend. I've had this from birth, but can't remember the medical term for it. Anyone know?
It's NOT a bunion, in fact, it's quite different than that. One of the two bones grew longer than the other in each foot, forcing the toes to bend inward at a severe angle; this occurs at the second joint of the big toe. The joint is essentially blocked from working due to this. I have been searching on the internet for this for a long time, but can't find the medical term for this condition. My doctor once told me the name but I don't recall it. Any podiatrist out there know it??
Big toe tendon problem.?
Whenever I move my big toe up or down there is a strange stretching feeling in my foot. It feels like the tendon that is clearly visible when I lift my big toe off the ground is rubbing on something just above the joint. What's more, I can feel this happening with my hand. It feels like a rubber band stretching in my foot. It does get sore to the touch. I can't think of any trauma.
Why can't I bend my toe anymore?
I may heal over time.
What is the condition called when our foot (especially toe joints) suddenly freezes (You can't move it) and it pains like hell when you try to move it?
That is symptom of anaemia, vitamin deficiency or combo. Take Mebendazole 100 mg twice daily for 3 days for killing intestinal worms, syrup zincovit & hepatoglobin as written on their label till bottle get emptied. Drink plenty of water everyday.Should go away after taking them for 15 days, if does not go away to experienced general physician. Read the other dangerous reasons — Foot pain - NHS Choices. You’ll see, they’ll not match. Test is not cost effective plus with supplement, it will go away.
How do your toes feel on pointe?
when you first go on pointe, you might not be able to balance, so you may feel off balances and off centered. After bit of practice you cant finally stay en pointe.what you will most likely fell at first is plainly, nothing! Your feet haven't been on pointe long enough for it to start hurting.Once you have stayed long enough, however, you will feel like your feet are dying, if they haven't died already!If you didn't clip your toenails before hand, or if you have a blister, it will hurt even more. Also, if you have feet that already feel like they are dead, and you continue to do pointe in that class, they will die even more.After a pointe class, i normally feel like my feet are squished and dead. But after a bit, you feel your heart beating in your foot and it has this big pang of pain, then it doesnt feel as bad as before.All in all, point shoes make your feet feel like hell, but it makes ballet more fun and interesting(ish). If your lucky, after a few sessions with pointe, you sill sort of get used to the pain of pointe shoes and it wouldn't hurt as mush as it first did.Hope that helps!
What is wrong with my big toe knuckle?
The most prevalent place for Gout to start is in the big toe. Feel it to see if it's really hot. If you can't stand to touch it even a little bit (like the air moving hurts it) then you most likely have gout. Otherwise, it could be a pulled muscle, bunnion, or arthritis. I pulled the tendon in my second toe one time, but it felt like I had broken my big toe. The ER incorrectly diagnosed it as gout and the medicine almost killed me. Make sure when you go to the doctor, that you describe EXACTLY what you feel or don't feel there. This will get them closer to a diagnosis, because toe/foot injuries are sometimes hard to figure out even for doctors. (And remember: they can't feel a thing, so they don't really know where it hurts, you have to tell them exactly what it feels like!)
My shoes fit, but they're a little tight around the toes. Should I move up a size?
You’ve got a lot of good responses here, but I just wanted to add another small point.I briefly worked in the shoe section of a department store…Generally you’ll find that a half size actually affects the width and not really the length. So best idea is to try a few different sizes and see which one feels best. You may well find that a little extra width makes the difference you need.If you get a shoe that is slightly too big, just pop in an inner-sole, it should help a little. And you could get a heel-grip which sticks onto the inside of the heel and stops the shoe from slipping up and down.There’s no point in worrying too much about what size you’re wearing, as long as it is comfortable. I’m a size 10 too but in some shoes I wear an 11. Just use the size you know as a basic guide to help you find the right fit/size in the particular shoe you are trying.Hope that helps you :)(By the way, if the shoe is touching your toenail and causing a bit of pressure, you need to try a bigger size, or that can become really painful. Most shoe fitters will try to get about a thumb’s width of space in front of the toe).
Does the separation of the foot into toes have any biological benefit for humans? We seem to be able to perform all our normal activities while wearing shoes, which seems to suggest that we can work normally even if we did not have separate toes.
Consider the effects of our feet extending only as far as the metatarsals or the balls of our feet.We would still be able to replicate every part of the stance phase of the gait shown in Joshua Engel's answer. Just "cut" the toes from each pic and the result is still possible. In the final 'toe off' phase the weight would be borne at the balls of the metatarsals rather than the great toe.We will have difficulty adjusting to different surfaces, since our feet will be more rigid.Our feet would be shorter. More on that later.So why have them? One, since we have evolved from a line that had them. Second, they keep our feet flexible. And they keep the foot long enough.Why have we not evolved to do away with them altogether? To some extent, we are. Human metatarsals are longer and the phalanges shorter relative to each other, compared to primates and simians. They are less mobile and more evenly spaced. If we had stiff metatarsophalangeal joints weight transmission would still be along the same lines as in Amar Prabhu's answer. The foot would be rigid and prone to injury though.As for length of the foot, shorter feet mean that we become more prone to toppling over forwards since the line connecting our center of gravity with our feet becomes more oblique. Try walking on your heels and you would notice you have to stay more erect to keep from falling.So what is the use of the toes in humans? By keeping the toes of our ancestors, we maintain foot flexibility and length. Weight transfer is possible without them, but normal human gait is not. They are not indispensable, a fact that many toe amputees would attest to while walking and running with normal sized shoes and spacer inserts inside.If length was so important why not have longer and larger toes to be more stable? That is because the foot is pulled upwards by muscles attached near the ankle. The longer the foot, the greater the mechanical disadvantage of these muscles. We would have trouble keeping it from dragging on the ground while lifting to take the next step.