When I arrived at the hospital reception I was giving directions on how to find the department, and it was a very long way for a person to walk on a 'foot injury' that was swollen. The toes red, the white of the toe nails also covering most of the whole toe nails. Discolouration of knees etc.
After the consultant had spoken over me, he checked reflexes, caused pain to my hips and made me stand on tip toes, together, then one foot at a time.
He also prodded and poked the injury in my foot. I was sent for an x-ray of the left foot again, that I knew in my heart that I did not require, and he did not x-ray the arthritic bone in my left hand.
He looked at the skin condition on the lower back and that was about it. I was not impressed with the so-called professional medic. Will they ever listen to patients and what patients have to say? Will they ever take a proper case history?
On the 18th June, within three days of the hospital appointment. I had a hot bath and when I got out of the bath I felt a sharp pain in the arch of the left foot so what conclusion can we come to in such circumstances?
What causes a pain in the arch of the foot? It can be caused by walking too far, on either a surface that is too flat, too soft, or too hard. All of which they made me do while I was at the hospital. To the department, to and from the x-ray department, then leaving the hospital is a long distance for a person with an injury to walk.
Basically, a person should not walk on such an injury, and no help or support was offered at the hospital. Neither was it explained prior to the appointment, the sheer amount of distance that would have to be walked on arrival at the hospital to see the consultant.
If it had been shared with yours truly prior to the appointment, or when I arrived at the hospital reception, I would've explained to the hospital that I cannot walk that far without increasing the pain to both the feet and back, and that a wheelchair, or one of those small airport vehicles would have to be provided to move patients around.
So what has happened to the foot since that hospital appointment? Plantar fasciitis is a condition of what is known as the 'insertion site of the ligament on the bone characterised by micro tears, breakdown of collagen, and scarring'. People with flat feet are more prone to this condition than other people, especially if they have one leg slightly longer than the other. 'The tendency of flat feet is that it rolls inwards'.
In recent years, I have shrunk two inches in height, and my feet have become flat, that was mentioned to the consultant, in addition to an existing foot injury. Flat feet can also happen due to the physical body ageing, and as far as I am concerned, as a health practitioner, it does require a treatment plan immediately it is identified. The nurse did recommend that I saw the podiatrist and I was referred to that department in 2015. Alas, all the sub-contractor did was give me some pads to put in my shoes, not impressed NHS.
A true podiatrist should be able to look at and examine your feet and give you an accurate diagnosis of any health conditions that you have in the body. As the feet provide a tremendous amount of information to a professional that recognises and comprehends the symptoms that can be seen and felt.
The latest medical science has proven to the medics and Rheumatologists that 'inflammation' has a much lesser role in the health condition of Plantar fasciitis than they first thought, the medics don't always get it right do they?
The medics are still learning about this condition, as they are with many other health conditions.
The Rheumatologists don't have all of the answers, so you have to listen to your bodies and what your bodies are telling you. You have to be intuitive, and take notes about your health conditions, and how it progresses and develops, what causes it to swell, what triggered it to worsen? Who touched it, what did they do it, how did your body respond to the investigations? What pain was caused to you?
PLANTAR FASCIA
It is written that 'The plantar fascia is a thick fibrous band of connective tissue that originates from the medial tubercle and anterior aspect of the heel bone. From there, the fascia extends along the sole of the foot before inserting at the base of the toes, and supports the arch of the foot. Originally, plantar fasciitis was believed to be an inflammatory condition of the plantar fascia.
However, within the last decade, studies observed microscopic anatomical changes indicating that plantar fasciitis is actually due to a noninflammatory structural breakdown of the plantar fascia rather than an inflammatory process'.
Due to the shift in thought, about the underlying mechanisms in plantar fasciitis, many in the academic community have stated that the condition should be renamed plantar fasciosis. The structural breakdown of the plantar fascia is believed to be the result of micro-trauma. During microscopic examination of the plantar fasciitis it often shows myxomatous degeneration, connective tissue calcium deposits, and disorganised collagen fibers.
'Distruptons in the plantar fascia's normal mechanical movement during standing and walking (known as Windlass mechanism) are thought to contribute to the development of plantar fasciitis by placing excess strain on the calcanea tuberosity'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_fasciitis
TENASCIN
More on TENASCIN and wound healing of limbs.
Due to on-going feet and back issues I've done quite a lot of research in recent years; and I agree with Dr Scholl when he said that 'If the feet hurt, the whole body hurts'. Feet also impact upon the back and the back impacts upon the feet. The feet also impact upon the brain and teeth, due to all of the systems being connected. As far as the brain is concerned it is important to feed the neurones.
For the collagen please read the 'Collagen and Manganese' post on this blog.
Now I didn't have the 'foot arch pain' prior to going to the hospital to see the consultant. Hence the conclusions are obvious to those that have the eyes to see it, 'micro-trauma' was caused by the visit to the hospital consultant on top of an existing injury.
LOTUS OLIVE HANDS
I can see the bigger picture as I have to make some serious complaints to the local hospital about their professionalism, because people are suffering unduly; due to what they do and how they do it, and after all that, no accurate diagnosis was given by the consultant. I have had to find out for myself again, so why are those consultants at our local hospital paid so highly?
Shouldn't they be paying the patients for teaching them what they should already know? And at the same time, pensions for my age group have been removed, and DWP keep on sanctioning people while the medics are not doing their jobs properly. Is that fair and just?
http://lotusfeet22.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/maximus-dwp.html
Naproxen is being given to people who have 'mechanical stress' conditions and 'non-inflammatory' conditions and the first thing that medics ask you, is what pharmaceuticals are you taking for your health conditions? This comes at a time when the documents have been leaked from the EU, that the EU plans to completely dismantle the NHS. Vote LEAVE the EU. I may complain about some of the professionals in the NHS. However, I would still like to think that we can save it.
There is also a biblical prophecy that the LORD will save the 'lame' in this timeline.
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