Amanda manning
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- plan to walk july 2017
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I really fail to see how not carrying an extra 8kg or so will make a difference. What an odd suggestion feom the doctor. Will you not still be putting 10 times that weight on your feet.... If it works, let us know please.
So you are on the camino now? How much feeling have you lost? Does you foot bump into the front of your shoe when you walk downhill? Can you lace them differently to protect your toe? Have you tried different shoes? Have you tried resting for a day or two?Hi I'm just curious. I have been walking for a few weeks now and have lost feeling in my big toe. I have been to the doctor and he suggested not carrying my pack anymore.
Good advice!Maybe slightly related: during my camino last year the front of both my thighs turned numb. It felt a bit like the anaesthesia at the dentist. I couldn't figure out what was causing this, until I met a hopitalera in France who had been a physiotherapist.
She immediately asked me how I carried my pack. Sure enough, I carried it wrong. I wore the hipbelt around my hips (snugly strapped), instead of letting it rest on my hips. Subtle difference, but an important one.
Back home I consulted another physiotherapist who told me the first one had been spot on with her diagnosis. Because I wore the hipbelt around my hips, I thereby 'locked' my hipbones and because of that pinched a nerve in the groin area, resulting in a loss of feeling in my thighs.
It has been more than a year ago, and the feeling still hasn't completely returned, although there is some improvement.
Moral of the story: get it checked out properly before you do yourself harm.
Can't hurt to get your pack sent on but I too would be looking at shoes. The nerve to your big toe runs done the top of your foot. Hoping it resolves itself soon.
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