I was tossing a schmoe moving a refrigerator yesterday when my untrained weakling little brother lost his grip on the appliance, which dropped it upon my foot.Despite my unfashionable weight belt and fingerless Behringer gloves, my lack of steel-toed lumberjack boots was indeed my downfall. Feels like a broken toe.Now, instead of going to the doctor to get a popsicle stick and some tape and missing 4 hours of message board posting time, I'm just bringing my medical question here, so that the phD braintrust here can give me some solicited and entertaining medical advice. Specifically, do I just tape the broken big toe to the ugly toe to next to it? Do I use a popsicle stick too? is leg training affected? Thanks friends.
when you arent 100%sure about what injury you got, always go to the dr if you care about your health...
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Rob, if any part of this is true. You need to isolate the big toe and find a firm slim peice of metal to place under your toe and tape with medical tape. After that you need some ace bandages to wrap your foot with, to insure your toe stays in place at a slightly elivated position to reduce swelling while standing. You must rewrap everyday and no unneeded pressure on the toe.
yeah im a doctor, just get a popsicle stick cut it smaller and tape your toe to it. You may also tape it to the toe next to it if needed.If you don't have a popsicle stick you can actually use paper, just fold a piece enough to wear it is stiff. If you immobilize the toe it will substantially decrease the pain. if it really hurt you should elevate it and put some ice on it for 20mins.Avoid walking and use painkillers...-Dr.Lesaucer15 approved.
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