If you have an arthritic big toe that prevents you from running, can you have it amputated and resume training?
If you have an arthritic big toe that prevents you from running, can you have it amputated and resume training?
you might shuffle like mark conover but still be very effective...
You can have the joint fused, and tilted up at an angle, so that it has a more correct "roll" when you push off.
Anyone heard of Paul McMullen? Missing a big toe and setting PRs in his 30s
1:45 wrote:
Anyone heard of Paul McMullen? Missing a big toe and setting PRs in his 30s
According to him, he's not missing the entire toe, but still has a decent portion of it. He even said that if any more was cut off, then his running career would've been over.
I am just back to running after being off 8 weeks with a broken big toe. I can tell you the little guy sure seems to be pretty important. I tried to shuffle along and not use my big toe, but that was still painful and caused a lot of pain in my knee and ankle.
pain wrote:
If you have an arthritic big toe that prevents you from running, can you have it amputated and resume training?
There was a guy that ran when I was in HS that shot his big toe off during a hunting accident (I think he put the barrel of the gun on it whan going over a fence or something). Anyway, shot it right off. Came back a year later to run mid 16's for 5K XC.
persons with prosthetic limbs don't have big toes
marijuologist wrote:
persons with prosthetic limbs don't have big toes
And persons who lost their thumbs in machinery or other misadventure don't have big toes either!!
I think all you'd need is one of those nearly-rigid plastic prosthetics that would bend when the foot had it in compression and flex back to mimic the "toe off" phase of the foot strike. I think you could run pretty well with such a device under or replacing the toe once you were moving, but would be lacking acceleration strength.