Need advice

Here are a few exercises you can try for uour foot. You may not be able to do them all but just do what you can.

Exercises to counter foot pronation focus on strengthening intrinsic foot muscles, the calf, and hip/gluteal muscles, and include towel scrunches, big toe pushes, heel raises, tip-toe walking, and glute-strengthening exercises like the glute bridge. These movements help to support the arch, improve balance, and correct the inward rolling motion characteristic of pronated feet.

Foot and Ankle Strengthening Exercises

Towel Scrunches: Sit with your feet flat on the floor and a towel in front of you. Use your toes to scrunch the towel towards you, building strength in the intrinsic muscles of your feet.

Big Toe Push: While standing, lift your arches by rolling your weight to the outer edges of your feet and gently pressing your big toes into the floor.

Heel Raises: Stand on a step or the floor and slowly rise up onto your toes, strengthening the calf muscles and ankle joint.

Toe Tapping: Sit with your feet flat and repeatedly tap your toes on the floor, which helps strengthen the muscles that support the shin and ankle.

Tip-Toe Walking: Walk on your tiptoes to strengthen your foot, ankle, and leg muscles and improve balance.

Arch Lifts: Lie with your feet flat and lift your arches by squeezing your heel, big toe, and pinky toe towards the center of the foot.

Those along with using your splint should all help.

Yes, you sent me a pic of your quad stick.

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Hi Anne on big toe push isn’t it the outer edge that turns sideways?

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Problem is I can’t move my toes at all.
Remember those tennis elbow exercises I sent that I got from doctor.
On the same page it said get rid of tennis elbow in 2 weeks.
Hope your having a good weekend Anne

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Yes, I think so. I can’t move my toes either although they sometimes twitch spontaneously- usually in the night do Ibam hoping that is the start of some life returning to them.

I have never heard of anyone recovering from tennis elbow in 2 weeks. Mine & hubby’s took a few months.

Weekend has been ok thanks. Hope yours has too.

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Just another day to me Anne.
Did go on a short walk today and top of my arm was very painful.
Keep trying to remember what my physio after rehab taught me about walking.
Straighten good leg always to stretch bad leg and bend knee on bad leg when walking

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I have a problem Anne I’ve started doing the tennis elbow exercises I sent you but after I do my squats top of my shoulder hurts.
Do I have to stop the squats and will the exercises still work to stop my tennis elbow?

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What is causing your shoulder to hurt after doing your squats? Are you perhaps squatting down too far? Exercises should cause muscles to ache etc but shouldn’t cause pain. If they are causing pain you might need to adjust how you are doing them. Is what you are holding on to to do them a bit too high perhaps?

Your elbow exercises should still work ok.

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Hi Anne I’m using a grab rail in bathroom and it’s low.
I try to do squats so am in an L shape

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When I do my squats I feel it pull on my shoulder

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I wonder whether you are squatting too low especially if your grab rail is low. It sounds like it may be pulling on your shoulder. I use the back of the sofa to hold on to for squats. I don’t recall getting shoulder pain doing mine.

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At a guess me leaning back causes it.
I’m trying not to and just bending knee

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It sounds like it could be the cause. Try and keep straight as you squat. It’ll take practice but you’ll get there.

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Thanks Anne.
Another problem I have is that years ago I was diagnosed with hyper mobile joint syndrome because I used to do martial arts.
Which means my joints go in directions they are not supposed to.
I wear a pouch with a strap.
My hand on my left side can hold it on my left and keep hold of it including going over my head to my right.
Which doesn’t help tennis elbow

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Oh wow. You have a few different challenges there. All of them difficult to deal with on their own never mind together.

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Yes Anne always happens to me.
Do you have baclofen?
I have to have 4 at night to stop the spasms

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I don’t take baclofen. Luckily I have very few spasms.

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Okay.
I have 1 every few minutes at night in bed unless I take 4

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Sounds like they’re essential for you & hopefully they ease the spasms enough for you to get some sleep.

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Am supposed to have 2 but 2 don’t stop spasms.
Doctor is contacting the person who does the botox for advice

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Hopefully they can get something sorted for you.

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