What's up my toes? It's Jonathan.
It's day number three in May for Foot Health Month. So today's video is gonna be a real-life
application of what happens when you don't wear proper footwear. Yesterday's video, which by the way
I'm filming today, was discussing the importance of proper footwear. Proper footwork is huge! With the right footwear, you're gonna
eliminate I would say 75 to 80 percent of all your problems. Today's case is of a woman who's been wearing a shoe
that's a little bit too narrow, too tight for her.
She has claw toes and what happens when you have claw toes, they don't sit flat in the shoe.
They become raised and because they're raised, they hit the top of the shoe more and that constant pressure from that
tight-fitting or shallow toe box
will cause hard skin to grow. Because there's no room for the hard skin to really grow above, what happens it kind of grows into
the body forming some sort of corn,
callus, and potentially a wound, which happened in today's case. So today, we're going to see again a real life application.
What happens when you wear shoes that might be a little bit too narrow, too tight and too shallow?
You have to wear the right shoes for your foot type! One last thing for you toes out there,
I'm doing a seminar in Toronto, Canada June 9th.
I'm only right now having 40 spots available. If you're curious about learning more about foot health,
how to provide better service for your clients, whether you're a foot care nurse,
pedicurist, nail technician, I'm here to help. I want to educate you guys.
I want to up your skills so you guys can provide better services for your clients. Go to my website
www.thetoebro.com
There's a product for the seminar. Purchase that and you're good to go.
Hope you guys are enjoying Foot Health Month. Toe Bro, out.
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TB: First you're gonna put on the shoes.
Patient: You like them too? You like fashion?
TB: (laughs) You're a very fashionable woman; you're an elegant woman.
P: When you're younger, it's different.
TB: No, don't give me that.
P: No more shoes like this.
TB: No, but you still look good .
P: I gave everything away.
TB: But you still look good; you're still abeautiful woman!
So you're a tough strong woman.
So you've been helping your husband a lot, so I'm gonna help you. So what we're gonna
do, we take as much dead skin as we can.
Like I told you I think there's a wound underneath.
P: Yeah.
TB: I give you the antibiotic cream, we get all the pressure off of it; we have to get the those shoes off.
P: But when I go out?
TB: Yes, when you go out, it's different, but you have to try...
P: At home, I don't wear shoes.
TB: Well now that it becomes better weather, if you can wear open-toe, much better.
P: Oh, yeah. I can bring sandals, just in case.
TB: Okay, so I want you just to relax.
I know you're nervous, but we're just removing dead skin. If something's too sore, you let me know. Okay?
P: I hate to go to the dentist too but I have to go to the dentist again! Oh!
I don't want to see.
TB: Don't want to see? Okay.
P: No!
See my husband had a problem last night just in bed before he going now lay down in bed.
He's bleeding by his nose.
TB: Oh!
P: Because he takes coumadin for his heart.
TB: Yes.
P: And the blood must be too thin
and
before lunch, he started bleeding again. He's in the car. I bring him with me.
TB: He's in the car now?
P: He's in the car.
TB: Is he okay there?
P: I guess so. I bring a bucket, I put
paper towels, I put
peroxide, cottons for him if he needing to put it on.
TB: Okay.
TB: The good thing is, this won't take too long.
P: No. It's dead.
TB: It's dead. Is it hurting?
P: No.
TB: And now you're watching!
You're watching.
P: I don't like to see surgeries and things like that.
TB: Well good thing good thing this is no surgery.
P: My husband, he loves to see everything.
TB: Well you should have brought him in then he could be helping me.
P: He can hardly walk. He would have to come with a walker.
TB: So your doctor referred you here right away?
P: I asked and he said, "You can't walk like that." I have trouble with that foot too. I have arthritis.
TB: Yes, so what you have here we call this a claw toe.
P: A what?
TB: A claw toe.
And that's it's like a claw.
P: I thought it was a hammer toe.
TB: Hammer, toe claw toe they're very similar.
P: Yeah?
TB: Yes,
you can use both terms. So the hammer toe is making the top of the toe hit the shoe and all that pressure is...
P: I had problems with my shoes.
TB: Yes, I know.
P: I have a brand new pair of shoes, when I tried, it was okay but now no way I can put them on.
TB: But I'll tell you this, Marie: you're looking so good you don't worry about the shoes! Wear a shoe
that's comfortable. You're a beautiful woman and you don't have to worry about the the footwear.
P: I understand, yeah.
TB: You wear a shoe that feels comfortable. If you do not remove the pressure from the shoes,
P: I know.
TB: This will keep coming back.
P: Yeah.
TB: So like I told you, I knew there was a little hole here, but it's not too bad at all.
P: Not bad?
TB: No.
P: Because I've been putting on, what do you call it, to take the pain away?
Infection creams.
TB: Okay, no corn pads!
None of that!
P: It's what's happening. I don't put a corn pad. I put just a
clear pad for cushion.
TB: Okay.
P: And it becomes black and I don't put her nothing to...
TB: What the black was was the dry blood.
P: The medication makes a hole and I don't want that on my foot.
TB: No. So that corn, that black was dry blood.
P: Yeah? Maybe from me to scratch it?
TB: From scratching or from too much pressure.
So, what's gonna happen, I'm gonna take a little bit more, but this is pretty much... a little sensitive, or you okay?
P: Yes. I'm okay.
TB: Okay, we're almost done. So this is pretty much all we have to do.
P: I turn my face away.
TB: Don't, don't worry! So the wound isn't deep; it's very superficial,
very shallow.
P: Yeah?
TB: Yes.
In a couple weeks, this will be fully closed.
We're gonna use an antibiotic cream, we come back in three weeks...
P: I come back?
TB: Yeah, just to make sure it's healing up.
P: Oh, it's so expensive here.
TB: No, no, we're just gonna take a look. We're just gonna take a look. I noticed...
P: See, I am tired.
TB: I know, I know you're tired. I know you're diabetic, but what we're gonna
do, I'm not gonna charge you we're just gonna take a quick look, and if it's healed, you're okay.
You okay?
P: Yeah. That is a nice knife.
TB: It is a very nice knife.
P: Very gentle. It cuts well too.
TB: That's what we want.
P: Yeah.
P: And I even put the seams on the socks, I put everything outside, I don't want it close to my feet..
TB: Of course, that's very smart of you, so I'm just wiping down this.
P: You know what? I am old but I try to get...
TB: See this?
P: Yes, yes.
TB: I'm gonna take a little bit more, but basically. That's it; you see how much better
it looks? It's not so deep. We use the antibiotic cream, we take the pressure off, and in a couple weeks
this will be fully healed, but you have to remove the pressure.
P: Yeah, I will. I'll never wear...
TB: We're good, I know but there was no pain today, right? Look how easy that was, okay?