Tag: capsulitis

On the capsulitis front…

…things are quite. Too quiet.
(No, not really.)
Things are pretty good…I’m spending more and more time barefoot & not having symptoms that much, so we’ll see how it continues on.

No Comments by Pocketina  /  April 18, 2010  /  Posted in: barefoot
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The foot fight (Rant, redux)

So, even with pretty horrible annoying capsulitis symptoms…I went for a 3.7 mile hike, wearing Vibram Five Fingers & thought I’d see how the next few days went, before considering myself okay.

I’m ok! Yay!
Funny, isn’t it, that I can’t walk a mile in regular shoes, on a paved road, but I can do almost 4x that distance, off-road, in VFFs. There’s clearly a biomechanical issue at work, and I wish I could find a sports doc who specializes in foot injuries to help me with it, rather than the podiatrists I’ve encountered (who pretty much tell me to stop running, hiking, and walking & to get some orthotics. What for? Hobbling to the couch?).In lieu of that, I have Celebrex, ice bags (at least 1x a day, for 20 minutes, metatarsal arch pads, achilles tendon stretches (again, at least 1x a day….should be 6x a day, really), and I’m continuing to walk. Without shoes.
It’s too early to say it’s working, but it’s certainly not failing.
I want to document this throughout the whole process & see where things are, by the end of the summer.

Today’s itinerary: gardening (done), 2-mile walk (ok, 1-mile walk, done!), 1 hour of beach volleyball practice (first one of the season). Gonna need a bigger ice bag!

Here’s a good intro article on why anybody’d ever stop relying on shoes & switch to VFFs:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/05/07/vibram-five-fingers-shoes/

4 Comments by photo  /  April 12, 2010  /  Posted in: barefoot
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damn and blast!

…my stupid capsulitis is back.

My left foot is swollen. From WALKING. I hate this stupid thing so much.
I’m full of Celebrex and rage & packed in ice.
Look, I’m basically too stubborn to let this thing get the best of me, so if this means I must eventually gnaw my left foot off & whittle my own wooden foot, so help me, I will.
Read the full article »

2 Comments by Pocketina  /  April 1, 2010  /  Posted in: Daily Whatever
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Yay for the Barefoot Running Forum!

I posted my capsulitis woes to Barefoot Ted’s forum on Google yesterday, after a very kind email from Barefoot Ted, advising me to try posing my question to the group (I wanted to see if he had any workshops planned for the East Coast, or had trained any coaches who lived on this coast).

I’ve already heard some encouraging stuff back…enough, at least, to keep trying to normalize my feet via physiotherapy & minimal shoes. At the very least, I’m hearing that people with high arches aren’t just stuck with it…and from what I’ve read about other foot issues on the forum, people with flat feet aren’t stuck, either.

I’m sure podiatry is a fine thing, and helps a lot of people, but it does seem sometimes like there’s a single solution for so many foot problems: orthotics. I just don’t get how that can be right for everyone. I mean, it’s not like a broken arm, or something.

Hmmmmm.

No Comments by Pocketina  /  October 22, 2009  /  Posted in: barefoot
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What the F is Capsulitis?

You know, when I was a kid and in dance class, everyone was jealous of my crazy high arches. (Just like we were all jealous of each other’s ability to survive on 4 raisins a day, but that’s a different story.) So, imagine my surprise when the doctor I go to says that I have extreeeeeeeemely high arches, and that it’s a bad thing. Yep. They might look all streamlined & crap, but they’re a ticking time bomb. And they just went off.

My vacation plans to hike have been ruined.

Turns out the annoying pain in my left foot (that I was just sucking up and ignoring) was a pretty big inflammation & I’m now on Celebrex & not supposed to walk/run/hike for fun for a week.
Yay.
Oh, and I get to shell out big for orthotics,too. Double yay. Damn my deformed high arches.

4 Comments by Pocketina  /  October 12, 2009  /  Posted in: Daily Whatever, barefoot
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