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  1. Stivandrer

    Effectively Avoiding Blisters

    I am for the dry method: Stop every hour, on the hour, change socks, massage your feet, cool off, ventilate boots/shoes by taking out insoles. Damp socks will now dry out in the gallow nooses on the outside of your rucksack, dangling in the wind. Fresh socks out and replace... This is how you...
  2. Stivandrer

    Shin Splints pre-Camino

    Have you considered compression shafts as a support while recouperating... I use CEP product with good results. They are a hassle to apply but they help plenty on the pain and the support is bounty.. Run it by your physio. I had to abort at Muxia, with no shops open and on...
  3. Stivandrer

    Snoring - useful info?

    bless your solution: I have slept in a bunk over a bloke who brought a Cpap ( new light version) and felt nothing through the night. With appropriate ear plugs it was just white noise...
  4. Stivandrer

    Taping for Prevention

    Xactly!!
  5. Stivandrer

    Taping for Prevention

    I have 2 uses for taping: When having tendinitis ( now cared for ) and for blisters after having used leucoplast and mefix, have now settled for KTape, as it will loosen itself easily within some days and will not tear off skin easily. When taping for tendinitis, I use KT first, and then if...
  6. Stivandrer

    Shin Splint Help Needed!

    If you are cleared by the physician, and choose to walk on, there is also KT tape, which is eleastic and easy to remove efter 4 days, very easy to apply by yourself: I always bring a roll of it, if not for myself alone but also to apply on those who get a twisted ankle:
  7. Stivandrer

    Question (about walking poles) for older walkers

    I have only ever lend out my Leki Micro Vario poles once, to a friend for half a day´s hike so he could feel the rythm and the benefits. It´s a bit like letting others borrow your tooth brush! But he bougth a pair of Black Diamond ZZ poles straight away and he reported that his pains...
  8. Stivandrer

    Question (about walking poles) for older walkers

    many good responses, have not read all, though: I have a sore arthritic thumb joint. I use bicycle fingerless gloves to get a better grip without really squeezing hard, and in my walking rhythm, I still have a firm grip as I am striding the pole firmly in the ground and have a loose grip when...
  9. Stivandrer

    The Miracle of Kinesiology Tape

    my sore knee/ankle dept purse - always ready and mostly needed one week into the camino.... after that the body regenerates.......
  10. Stivandrer

    I probably won’t do this again

    !!!!!!???????
  11. Stivandrer

    I probably won’t do this again

    I suggest that the snorers are the meek of this Earth and they belong firmly in the Albergues, where there is an abundance of cold water, snorers, early risers with their rocking beds. All common showers and the occasinal bed bugs for good measure.... That will serve us right, We, the...
  12. Stivandrer

    Yet another health threat to worry about

    instead of a heavy axe, you bring a steel wire saw: it packs like this: - but good luck explaining this to the Bomberos, if you light a fire !!
  13. Stivandrer

    Yet another health threat to worry about

    Sombre indeed, a whole section of Jylland is in lockdown and tons and tons and tons of animals are being put down i droves. A suspicion of a Cluster no 5 variant is not reacting to normal vaccines ( when they do come) has brought this on.....
  14. Stivandrer

    Sleeping in a dorm room where there's someone with a CPAP

    Last time, I slept in a bunk bed right over a CPAP user, and did not really hear it all night. Used ear plugs as per usual, so this doable. Mind you, in my childhood, we had friends staying over in the vicarage and the church bell above struck time every quarter hour... People swore they would...
  15. Stivandrer

    Yet another health threat to worry about

    Correction to November : US Elections !!
  16. Stivandrer

    Second Opinion Update Anniesantiago

    chilling news but good to hear that you are in able hands... All the best
  17. Stivandrer

    Tick bite meat allergy

    - but isn´t the precondition that this allergy occurence to meat is caused by a number of people having been bitten by ticks ( not specified) in the first place...?? Not that you will get allergy by eating certain meat products !?
  18. Stivandrer

    Vaseline on feet?

    Re alcohol From my time in Scotland and hillwalking: Never wash your feet in the morning but the night before, Some of my mates rubbed some methylated spirits that I had for my Trangia on their heels to make the skin smooth and firm on the heel esp and to cause less friction w the socks, tried...
  19. Stivandrer

    Vaseline on feet?

    I am sure that foot which got the vaseline treatment heats up due to the pores of the skin being blocked in the proces. Where I have used it was on problem areas only , OR I have resorted to prudent lacing: If you perform surgeon´s knots on the first two rows of hooks just after the initial...
  20. Stivandrer

    Urban myths about boots and backs— are there others?

    I have run a wee bit tired of the banter that peddles diverse medical articles that support this or that strategy for equipment; IMHO it boils down to what premis you lay down for your argument. In my case, I have had a bad arched foot all my life, including at flat transverse arch in my...

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