Deans' stroke musings: Toe crest failure

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Toe crest failure

I've been wearing one for years to somewhat help my curled toes. I know of no guideline or protocol on when it should be used and its efficacy. The strap goes on my third toe. It mostly covers the second and third toes. This was never a problem until my Banos, Ecuador trip. One day we walked across a muddy trail on a 50 degree slope to get to the La Virgen statue. Then down 654 steps to get back to town. The downhill part caused the problem. The fourth toe had almost no ridge under it from the toe crest. That meant that as I was going down the top of that toenail was being pressed into the shoe. Luckily it didn't cause the nail bed to loosen and have the toenail fall off. Probably because before every trip I take I now get a pedicure. As a result of losing my left big toenail hiking around Barcelona once.