Yes, thank you. I frequently saw foot and hand injuries in martial arts. Actually, they most often came into the dojo injured from other activities and wanted to keep practicing. So I tried to do as much study as possible (western and eastern). My teacher was from the 'old school' where very elder teachers were as much healer as teacher of martial arts and I enjoyed learning from him (and his teacher).
Donna
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From: "Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD." >
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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:10:53 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
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Subject: Re: [Minutus] Foot problem
The sensation and expression of pain is individual.
If there is a total rupture with retraction of the tendon, I would
theoretically expect some dull pain or none at all as long as the muscle
moving the tendon is not activated and some sharper pain when contracted. If
the tendon is partially ruptured, continuous pain is "expected".
The quality of pain is important in our choice of remedies as it is a
reflection of the patient's reaction to a "standardised" trauma, but I would
not use it as a benchmark for diagnosis of the anatomical, mechanical
problem.
For example, many years ago while working a few months in orthopedic surgery
I had extreme pain in my thumbs every time I was using a screwdriver to fix
plates on broken bones; it continued for months until one day I did X Rays
of my hands and realised both my thumbs were broken, yet no other motion
than the twist of the screwdriver induced the pain.......then it was time
for me to leave the department of orthopedics and that was it, but because
it went untreated for months, my thumbs are still sensitive to very
prolonged strain.....
Does that help?
Joe.
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