Purple Toe Hax!

[Budderfly]

I think I broke or dislocated my little toe at martial arts class tonight. We were grappling and I'm not sure what happend but my toe went backwards. I thought I broke my toenail off, but when I looked at it and lightly pressed the knuckle part, it "popped" into place and got all purple.

 

No sparring for me on Friday and I have a demo to do on Saturday.

 

I'll just practice Long Staff and the new pattern I'll need to learn when I get my next belt. That should be okay. There isn'tmuch you can do for toes. I've broken my big toe a few times and they've been stepped on by horses.

 

So for now, I'm going to ice it and keep it elevated.

[WolverineGuy]

I've needed surgery for a broken toe...go to a doctor.

[aefibird]

I've broken my big toe a few times and they've been stepped on by horses.

 

Eeeyah, I feel for you, I really do. My horse is a big clumsy-footed old thing and he's stood on my toes more times that I care to remember. After he broke every toe on my right foot by stepping on it I decided to get a pair of steep toe capped riding boots...

 

I'm a bit unlucky with my toes. I tend to injure them a lot. I've caught my toe in the sleeve of someone's gi before when sparring and the last competition I went to I had to retire injured due to breaking my left big toe in the kumite (she blocked with her elbow. eeee, that was painful!)

 

I hope your toe gets better soon Budderfly. Lots of ice and lots of rest!!

 

Good luck with the demonstration too.

[Budderfly]

Still not sure if I'm going to do the demo. If I don't go then the rest of the team can't go on (we all have key parts), but if I do, I might make it worse.

 

My teammates are understanding and we can always do the demo again next month... but I know they were looking forward to it.

 

I am going to the doc tomorrow, just so he can take a look at it.

[Dijita]

It sucks, but doctors can't realy do anything for a broken toe. I broke the toe beside my big toe about a month ago at a tournement. My whole toe went black right away. The discoloring is gone now, but it's still super swollen.

 

My advice, buy lots of medical tape, and tape that pinky toe to the toe beside it ALL the time. Ice it a lot. I wouldn't stop going to class because of it, unless it's REAL bad. It'll take some time to heal, but if you tape it up it should be fine, just take it easier.

[CanuckMA]

It sucks, but doctors can't realy do anything for a broken toe. I broke the toe beside my big toe about a month ago at a tournement. My whole toe went black right away. The discoloring is gone now, but it's still super swollen.

 

My advice, buy lots of medical tape, and tape that pinky toe to the toe beside it ALL the time. Ice it a lot. I wouldn't stop going to class because of it, unless it's REAL bad. It'll take some time to heal, but if you tape it up it should be fine, just take it easier.

 

Not true and overall bad advice. Doctors generally will not X-ray a toe because treatment for a dislocated/bruised/broken toe is the same. You can't put a broken toe in a cast. Toe injuries are fixed by buddy-tapping the toes together. Then REST. You have to give the break time to heal. If you keep moving it, even when taped, it will move and probably not set properly. Remeber, if it's painful there is still something wrong with it.

[Dijita]

It might be bad advice I suppose. I tend to always try to get back in the game as soon as I can when I hurt myself.

 

I guess I just see it as, if I take it easy in class and not make contact with my foot, the toe will be fine.

 

For example when we do Kihon (Basic techniques) you're not striking anything and if you buddy tape the toe, the toe isn't going to move around.

 

When we spar or do anything that is contact, I let my partner know that my toe is bad, and I don't use that leg to kick with.