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| Thread ID: 120086 | 2011-08-24 09:54:00 | Uneven leg lengths | Timbo (11006) | PC World Chat |
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| 1225692 | 2011-08-24 22:17:00 | Rather than build up your shoes, you might prefer to have an insert (is that what you call a heel lift?) to build up your short leg as I have. The good thing about the insert is you do not need to have your shoes built up and you can transfer the insert from one shoe to the next. Simple. Building up your shoes is the expensive option. Ask about an insert. Much cheaper. I have one leg shorter by 1.5cm. It does not sound much but it can cause problems. I find walking for more than ten minutes difficult and prefer sitting to standing. I cannot stand up straight and so put my weight more on one foot than the other which makes for sore feet. Whichever way you go, you will be much more comfortable once your short leg is built up. Best of luck with that. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1225693 | 2011-08-24 22:22:00 | Case in point, the true cost of fitting new lenses for cataracts is about $50 , yet the local lads charge $6000 for the pair. Jusify that. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1225694 | 2011-08-24 22:26:00 | Timbo, rather than taking your physiotherapist's opinion as gospel and getting a built up shoe, can I suggest that you seek another opinion from a different profession? I have nothing against physiotherapists, but they don't know everything! I was having unpleasant back problems and was referred to a musculoskeletal doctor in ChCh. He showed through measurements etc, and looking at me standing, that instead of my pelvis being level (i.e. parallel to the floor when standing) it was tilted. Possibly a result of my scoliosis, or maybe from a couple of motor bike accidents... Perhaps that could have meant that one leg might have seemed longer than the other? After some very gentle massage I had a level pelvis again. He said he could teach my wife how to do the massage so she could correct my alignment if it ever went out again. I am not presuming to say that this is what is 'wrong' in your situation - just recommending that you seek a confirmation diagnosis from someone more skilled in this area than a physiotherapist (e.g. like a musculoskeletal doctor). |
John H (8) | ||
| 1225695 | 2011-08-24 22:34:00 | You could always walk with one foot in the gutter, cheap option! | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1225696 | 2011-08-24 22:41:00 | Case in point, the true cost of fitting new lenses for cataracts is about $50 , yet the local lads charge $6000 for the pair. Jusify that. Student loan repayments. :D |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1225697 | 2011-08-24 23:32:00 | Interesting. Some years ago I was working at the house of a retired doctor in Te Awamutu. He saw I was having trouble turning my head fully and asked me to lie on a couch he had in a small surgery attached to his house.. He pointed out that I had one leg about 2.5cm shorter than the other and told me had studies Chinese medicine in China for many years. He took wooden wedges and placed them under my hips, back and leg and made me lie like that for 15 minutes (It was uncomfortable) after which he stimulated my back muscles with an electrical acupunture needle. When he removed the wedges both legs were the same length and I had full and painless rotation of my neck. When the problem reoccured some weeks later he repeated the treatment with similar results. He would not accept any money for the treatment. |
tut (12033) | ||
| 1225698 | 2011-08-24 23:53:00 | There are just too many so-called 'medical professionals' (GPs, Specialists, Dentists, Pharmacists, etc.) without professional ethics. They are out there to squeeze money from the sick people. Of course, there are really good ones around but rare. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1225699 | 2011-08-30 01:19:00 | Rather than build up your shoes, you might prefer to have an insert (is that what you call a heel lift?) to build up your short leg as I have. The good thing about the insert is you do not need to have your shoes built up and you can transfer the insert from one shoe to the next. Simple. Building up your shoes is the expensive option. Ask about an insert. Much cheaper. Whichever way you go, you will be much more comfortable once your short leg is built up. Best of luck with that.I considered only using a wedge, but physio said have one one feet angled all the time is bad. And I want to be active and do sports, so I guess the built up sole is the better option for me. I have one leg shorter by 1.5cm. It does not sound much but it can cause problems. I find walking for more than ten minutes difficult and prefer sitting to standing. I cannot stand up straight and so put my weight more on one foot than the other which makes for sore feet.What kind problems did you have? I find I have a forward head posture and the joints in my black click a lot. Also the facet joints in my spine get stuck easily, and I have to click them to get movement back. Also I toe walk as oppose to striking with the heel first. No pain amazingly. |
Timbo (11006) | ||
| 1225700 | 2011-08-30 01:25:00 | Timbo, rather than taking your physiotherapist's opinion as gospel and getting a built up shoe, can I suggest that you seek another opinion from a different profession? I have nothing against physiotherapists, but they don't know everything! I was having unpleasant back problems and was referred to a musculoskeletal doctor in ChCh. He showed through measurements etc, and looking at me standing, that instead of my pelvis being level (i.e. parallel to the floor when standing) it was tilted. Possibly a result of my scoliosis, or maybe from a couple of motor bike accidents... Perhaps that could have meant that one leg might have seemed longer than the other? After some very gentle massage I had a level pelvis again. He said he could teach my wife how to do the massage so she could correct my alignment if it ever went out again. I am not presuming to say that this is what is 'wrong' in your situation - just recommending that you seek a confirmation diagnosis from someone more skilled in this area than a physiotherapist (e.g. like a musculoskeletal doctor). I have scoliosis swell, the physio thinks its the functional type caused by uneven leg lengths... But then I also had another physio say my legs were fine and my scoliosis was structural. I guess I could see a musculoskeletal doctor for a third opinion. Though I do believe its my legs. I can stand with a book on under my left leg and my posture and back is straighter. |
Timbo (11006) | ||
| 1225701 | 2011-08-30 01:34:00 | When the problem reoccured some weeks later he repeated the treatment with similar results. He would not accept any money for the treatment. Have you investigated what causes your problem to reoccur? Sorry, but I had a bad experience with my one. I also saw a Chinese "doctor", he could give me a back massage and I would bee all good after, but he never explored why my back would always go bad again and I would have to come back for the same treatment. I told him that my back problems was caused by my short leg and showed him the wedge in my shoe.. he then suggested that he can fix my short leg by giving me adjustments... supposedly to fix the bad alignment. I then told him no adjustment will fix the problem, as the leg is structurally shorter, not some alignment problem... I let him have a go anyway, and he starting press my knee and pelvis joints etc... afterward it felt funny to walk, until my kneed clicked a few days later and my knee moved freely in its normal range of motion again and had no funny feeling in it. Seemed he couldn't comprehend your bones can be physically shorter. |
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