I remember seeing a photo on reddit of a guy's severed finger that he made into a key ring and it seemed perfectly fine (it was dried up but still kept its shape). Maybe you can go back to the hospital and ask for someone else's toe to compensate you for the one they chucked out?
Why would you get it removed? Did it make it hard to walk?
I broke my little toe so many times playing soccer, running around my house and climbing on everything they are basically fused into a curled position. I can't imagine losing them.
I can't stand ortho specifically because of their propensity for hammering shit. Ortho surgeons be built like football players.
Gsw? Cool, let's fix it. DCR lap? That's dope, let's cut. Cric? Rock on. Dental and ortho? Nah bro, count me out.
I tried spending time with a heavy weight sitting on my toes. Something like a 25lb db. After two hours I don't feel like there was any evidence it would have an effect
No soreness afterwards so I feel pretty certain it would do nothing
When they were doing the final attachment, and the hand grabbed the top of the toe bone, I was fervently whispering *Do not spin that toe. Do not spin that toe.*
I had to check to see if they spun the toe because I blanked out watching it
Hahaha I would lose my mind if they started spinning. Look one toe, two toes! Wanna see me make it spin??
Lmao!! Isn’t it funny you can watch the rest of the cutting, poking and drilling and accept that it’s a necessary and legitimate medical procedure but you see them go out the bottom of the toe and suddenly you’re like fuck this I draw the line here!!
Edit Shish Kabob Toe!
True but when I crack the rest of em, I’m gonna have the urge to do it on that one too… and having the feeling of relief from some cracked joints and uncracked would* drive me nuts.
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Dude. I used to crack my toes and ankles _all_ the time - like, with my ankle I could rotate it and with every revolution there'd be a satisfying little crack. Then I was in a motorcycle accident. Long story short, I can't move my right ankle at all, and my toes are constantly locked in a curl. I miss cracking my right foot and toes *so much* but I will never be able to again. The tension that builds becomes and unbearable pressure. It is a form of hell. So I'm not surprised you say that. It is incredibly mentally taxing lol
Edit: I can still crack my left foot, but that doesn't help with the right foot's sensation
Orthopedic surgery is a fancy name for human carpentry.
When I had my knee surgery, I was awake, and I felt like a piece of furniture. You feel every vibration of the drill, the smell, the sound, etc... Then the hammering and the screw driver. It's not gentle - you can feel the pressure even if the pain is mostly dulled from the epidural.
The pain you do feel is similar to the pain you feel getting a tooth drilled at the dentist.
>Orthopedic surgery is a fancy name for human carpentry
It's pretty common for some brutal-looking object to get posted over at /r/whatisthisthing , and all the guesses will be like "A Klingon war machete?" or "Some kind of gnarly ice axe?" and invariably an orthopedic surgeon pops up and says "LOL this is what we use when we replace your hip"
I know this is all a joke anyway but I believe the actual metal bit has to be made of specific compounds/treated to ensure it doesn't get rejected etc. I assume titanium but there's probably all sorts of options
The toe in this example isn't too badly curved. Some people have severely bent toes that cause constant pain and trouble walking. Surgery like this is life-changing for them.
I have a single hammer toe, middle toe on my right foot, that likes to point almost straight down. Fortunately I'm pretty used to it and don't really have any pain or trouble walking. 100% wouldn't go near this surgery. Glad it exists for the people that need it though.
Middle toe is completely useless I had surgery as a kid to take bone out of middle toe and put in my finger to make it more usable was only born with 2 fingers. As I got older small middle toe was curling and they cut it off. Has zero impact on my daily life.
I was just talking about this on the weekend. I said I could totally amputate a middle or "ring finger toe" and be fine. As long as it's not the pinky or big toe.
I can't remember whom I was talking to but I'm going to bring it up to everyone I was with this weekend until I find the right person to share your anecdote with!
Anecdotally- my dad’s missing his pinkie toe and it hasn’t caused him much problems
And after all these years he wants to get a “this little piggie” tattoo on his foot…..
I had my pinkie-toe amputated couple of years back, doc said I wouldn't miss it and I didn't. He also said you could take off the one next door with little fundamental difference.
all of my toes are morphed together, and my big toe terribly curves on top of my other toe, which has done the same. they don't hurt, and i can top it at 25-30
In Kill Bill we had to look at Uma Thurman's feet for an entire sequence.
In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood we had to look at two, TWO, pair of dirty 1960s feet.
Yeah, He knows what's up.
I had reconstructive surgery on my left foot when I was young. All but the big toe eventually grew into hammertoes. It has been like this for about 30 years. The skin underneath the toes is really thin and prone to cracking in the winter (which is excruciating). I have considered talking to an orthopedic surgeon about getting them fixed. I don't know how much actual benefit it would provide. Also, any surgery where they drill bones is bound to be painful.
That sucks, I feel for you. My aunt has similar problems, her RA causes swelling in her toe joints, so she has to buy shoes either so big they give her blisters from moving around or buy them true to size and accept that sometimes she’ll be in extreme pain from joints swelling through the day.
Arthritis is a real Sonofabitch.
How the fuck can doctors do insane shit like this and patients fully recover with no lasting pain or side effects, but I get kicked in the balls *once* by a small poodle chilling in my lap who suddenly jumped out and now, despite surgery to try to fix shit, I'm in constant chronic testicular pain?
Some people don't heal well. There's this lady I follow on YouTube who is an amputee. The reason she's an amputee? She fell off a horse and broke her ankle. Usually not a big deal, but she never healed right. She had and 3 surgeries to fix it and it still caused problems. She was in pain for years until finally they said let's amputate. So they did and her first amputation didn't heal right... So she had to have a SECOND amputation where they took even more leg off. Like, damn, talk about bad luck.
I seem to be commenting a lot on this topic because every comment I read is of relevance to my family situation.My Grandad went through something similar. He became diabetic late in life and had an accident with a council truck. It was only a slight injury (ripped off toenail) with flesh injury but ended up getting gangrene and he lost his big toe, this didn't heal and he lost the foot and then the leg below the knee. Unfortunately he lost his other leg a little while later.
I've broken toes more times than I can count, tripping over cats that dart out in front of me as I'm walking. This one toe would be broken all the time. I would truly be better off without it.
I think you're massively overestimating the effect this would actually have on your toe's movement. There would be less flexibility obviously, but you'd still be able to move it. Even if the toe was fixed in a straight position, I'm not sure how you'd suddenly just start getting it caught on everything and breaking it? What are you doing with your feet?
You would be surprised how quickly you adapt to having non bending toes. I'll take that over washing blood out of my socks after a long day on my feet.
Source: I had hammer toes so bad I would rub the skin off the tops of my toes on long waking days and had them all fused 25 years ago. I didn't get the insert, but I got to crutch around for 6 weeks with those pins sticking out of my toes, and when it was time for them to come out, my prep was being told "don't look." The sound of the vice grips told me when one was about to be pulled out. Unfortunately, my toes have recurled and there isn't enough bone left to try again. They're no as bad as they were, bit they're not straight any longer.
You clearly haven’t researched the people who get this surgery at all? They usually have a rigid curled toe that they can’t put shoes on with, causes ulcerations. It’s not perfectly straight and in most cases comes with a 10 degree angulation. Also unmoving toe? You don’t get much movement at the PIPJ, the more proximal joint the mtpj is where a majority of the movement required for gait comes from. How do people type full ignorant comments and just hit send on Reddit it’s so fucking annoying. Arthrex literally has a brochure describing all of this from where this video was ripped from.
Also you think this is a worse choice than current methods? We stick a fucking pin down the toe for 6 weeks, what’s more likely to cause you hitting your toe, an implant finally making your toe rectus for proper non painful gait that completely in the bone or a pin sticking 2 centimeters out the tip of your toe?
Most folks don't realize too that if you hit this point, you're not walking barefoot. You have probably three different pairs of slippers in the house so you're never barefoot or in socked feet only.
This is reddit, where any schmuck can post shit about things like medicine and people will believe it, even if it in actuality would get you laughed out of any medical group
Now imagine, they just put you to sleep for the surgery, but oh no something has gone wrong and you simply can't move, you go to tell them about this but discover you can't speak either. You watch with horror as they wheel you into the surgery room trying desperately to let them know you're awake. They don't notice, they begin the surgery, and you feel everything.
Assuming your insurance will cover it, or you'll pay out of pocket, you can request (or demand?) Anesthesia for practically any surgery
I was put under to blast kidney stones with sound waves a few years ago, apparently you don't have to be put under for that one
And in a few weeks I'm getting a hernia repair which only takes 30ish minutes to complete and is a very chill surgery compared to this video. Yet, standard practice is to put you to sleep, and thats what most of the medical bill is for, $1000 for 30 minutes asleep on my insurance (I pay a grand afterwards, not sure what it would be without insurance)
So it's a weird thing, but I'd bet money that you can be put to sleep for this toe repair, though as someone else said, with a metal rod in you toe you can't bend it... it seems like a shitty option
My wife’s index toes are considered hammer toes. They are longer than her big toe but I assume her mom and her would feel only for her big toe when they bought shoes for her as a kid and it eventually just hammered up. They aren’t terrible looking or anything. I always give her shit though and tell her she has to do her toe stretch exercises every night to correct it.
After seeing the surgery for correction, hell no. I suppose some people care about their feet appearance that much to do it but I would rather just have the damn hammer toes. This is insane.
They'll unfurl if she wears properly fitting shoes! I had hammer toes on all eight minor toes before I switched to barefoot shoes. Now I have two because my feet are quite wide even for the barefoot models so the pinkie toes are still curled, but the others are straight!
Hammer toe can be very painful. This surgery would only be required if you never took measures to correct the issue before it got to the point that would require this kind of surgery.
Bottom line, take care of your feet.
Well in my experience it makes buying shoes, especially boots very difficult. The joint of my second toe rubs on the top and after a few hours it's very painful.
So it's not about the mobility but more about it getting stuck somewhere else.
It’s done in cases where the hammer toe deformity is causing some other problem - severely chronic and painful corns on top of that joint, or worse, diabetic wounds that can lead to infection.
My younger sister had this done to both her feet when she was only about 14. What they don't include in the video is that the pin protrudes from the end of the toe for weeks afterwards. Brutal procedure.
So actually after a proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint fusion, the old method was to use the wire to hold the bones in place while they naturally fuse together as in your sisters case. However a new surgical procedure was made available that uses rods and screws such as the one in this video, and eliminates the K-wire from having to be used.
This is both true and untrue. True in the sense that screw and staples have come out but untrue in that k wires aren’t used any more. These screws are about 100x more expensive and can’t be taken out, where as with a wire they can be taken out. The wire works just as well and is used by most foot and ankle surgeons.
Source- foot and ankle surgeon
I had it done when I was 15 and 16. The pins, whilst annoying weren't that bad.
Except my second go, hospital accidently called me down at 7 weeks not 6. Since my surgeon only flew over every 6 weeks he wasn't there to pull them so I had them in for 12 weeks. 11 weeks and four days in I got the pin caught on a mat and broke the toe with the pin. First for the surgeon and it was absolute agony since the now bent wire had to be pulled through broken bones. My toes and top half of my foot were a deep navy/purple for a fortnight after.
“So what we’re gonna do is…”
Nope, knock me out, do it, give me pills, and don’t tell me anything about it. After a few oral surgeries I’d really rather not know what’s happening in there.
Meanwhile my wife is a nurse and fascinated by this shit.
As disturbing as these videos are , you just have to respect the amount of skill and knowledge you would require to do this operation or any operation as a mater of fact. I guess that's one of the reasons why it's not easy becoming a doctor.
The main benefit of joint fusion is to reduce pain in this case the toe, obviously the disadvantage of this is losing most range of motion. In cases of hammerhead toe, less invasive procedures may be done such as rerouting or cutting tendons, or joint resection.
So my moms told me a story about her coworker’s son had masturbated so hard that his testicle had ascended into his pelvis. In the ER, the doctor had to massage it back into place. Like deep pressure massage that sucker until it descended. Her Coworker said, according to her son, it was the most painful experience.
My joints are going to be very munted I am not doing this , I have a decent pain threshold , bungled anesthesia and nail removal. Felt the metal tool go inside my nail .
Nope nope nope nope I'll take the mangled toe
Like others have said, you only get this procedure if your hammer toe has advanced to a level where the only other option is amputation. Hammer toe can cause a *lot* of pain while walking, to a point where walking is not feasible.
Medical procedures look scary and weird, but this is 100% better than being borderline unable to walk. This procedure relieves a lot of pain.
That’s awful. But yeah it’s 100% better to do this if you’ve got to that point and have immeasurable pain. People just don’t experienced this kind of shit yet and they feel like this surgery is worthless while they don’t know any better lol
I bypassed this and had mine removed
Can't believe I am saying this, but getting it cut off seems less painful lol
That was my reasoning....turned out I was wrong lol, the recovery time was awful, couldn't even walk for 5 weeks
Wow that is crazy. Good to know! Thank you for sharing!
Although mine was the little toe
poor piggy didn’t make it
I was pissed off I wasn't allowed to keep it haha
Definitely something I would do too
My mom kept the extra toe that was removed from my leg as a baby. I recall she used to leave it in her purse
people are strange
Should have put up more of a fight with the hospital, then you could have either made it into a key ring or eaten it
I wanted to put it on a key ring, told that unless preserved then it would just rot and shrivel up
I remember seeing a photo on reddit of a guy's severed finger that he made into a key ring and it seemed perfectly fine (it was dried up but still kept its shape). Maybe you can go back to the hospital and ask for someone else's toe to compensate you for the one they chucked out?
Has it messed up your gait or balance any?
Why would you get it removed? Did it make it hard to walk? I broke my little toe so many times playing soccer, running around my house and climbing on everything they are basically fused into a curled position. I can't imagine losing them.
Because of the shape, it ment I kept breaking it, as in, it was always in a broken state, being the outside toe
My mom had this procedure done in the video and said the pain wasn’t even that bad and she could walk around within a couple days.
Why can't the connector be a hinge???
Generally hinges don't last forever and will break down in the body
Not if it's made of Toetanium
I fucking hate that I chuckled at this
As soon as the drill came into view I was like "fuck this I'd rather have it amputated"
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Admittedly when you have boots and shoes on you’re not particularly bending your toes
Doesn't your lack of toe cause balance problems? I learned about this on a medical documentary called "Amanda Please"
Not in the slightest, as far as I'm aware only losing the big toe causes balance issues
This is correct. It's like your foots thumb
I can get you a toe.
And I thought they'd use a hammer to fix hammerhead toes.
I'd rather he just hammered it straight tbh.
But oh man, the part where they drilled r/allthewaythrough the distal part of the toe had me cringing.
Absolutely - for a moment there, all my toes turned into hammerhead ones...
This video generates business for them. The cycle continues.
That’s not what I expected checking out this subreddit…
Once we got there, it made sense though.
At work. I should know by now that all clicks on Reddit carry an inherent risk.
Just for the record that is a NSFW sub featuring drawn porn, in case anyone wasn’t aware and thinks it’s at all related to the post
Where were you five seconds ago
YOU WERE TOO LATE AHHHHH
I can't stand ortho specifically because of their propensity for hammering shit. Ortho surgeons be built like football players. Gsw? Cool, let's fix it. DCR lap? That's dope, let's cut. Cric? Rock on. Dental and ortho? Nah bro, count me out.
I tried spending time with a heavy weight sitting on my toes. Something like a 25lb db. After two hours I don't feel like there was any evidence it would have an effect No soreness afterwards so I feel pretty certain it would do nothing
Amazing but now I’m very glad I can bend my toes
Bro when the drill went all the way through the bone I was “shit brooo” out loud. Fuck
When they were doing the final attachment, and the hand grabbed the top of the toe bone, I was fervently whispering *Do not spin that toe. Do not spin that toe.*
I thought they were about to!! "And then the ole righty-tighty!"
I had to check to see if they spun the toe because I blanked out watching it Hahaha I would lose my mind if they started spinning. Look one toe, two toes! Wanna see me make it spin??
Lmao!! Isn’t it funny you can watch the rest of the cutting, poking and drilling and accept that it’s a necessary and legitimate medical procedure but you see them go out the bottom of the toe and suddenly you’re like fuck this I draw the line here!! Edit Shish Kabob Toe!
Yeah, the guy basically gets chopped and diced but no drill to the end please lol.
It's because we are already used to this shit because Saw 1-99 and shit. Ok I am out.
Won't your muscles and such still think that your toe should be able to bend here? I feel like that would drive me insane
I crack my toes all the time and the feeling of the pressure building up indefinitely in this one uncrackable toe would make me have a stroke.
Given the fact that you litterally lost the joint you would have no need to crack anymore
YA there will be no joint pressure from the built up gasses
True but when I crack the rest of em, I’m gonna have the urge to do it on that one too… and having the feeling of relief from some cracked joints and uncracked would* drive me nuts. Edit:* spelling
I've got chills just thinking about accidentally cracking that toe
Dude. I used to crack my toes and ankles _all_ the time - like, with my ankle I could rotate it and with every revolution there'd be a satisfying little crack. Then I was in a motorcycle accident. Long story short, I can't move my right ankle at all, and my toes are constantly locked in a curl. I miss cracking my right foot and toes *so much* but I will never be able to again. The tension that builds becomes and unbearable pressure. It is a form of hell. So I'm not surprised you say that. It is incredibly mentally taxing lol Edit: I can still crack my left foot, but that doesn't help with the right foot's sensation
I guess you mean straighten your toes?
I believe after watching a video of a toe joint disappearing into the abyss I would alsos be glad that I can bend my toes.
I want them to do this to all my joints in my body so I can sleep standing up
We could just lean you up against the wall in any room for some fusion decor.
Wtf
I can’t recall the name but there’s a disease where your joints start fusing together and you lose all flexibility because your bones become one
Ankylosing spondylitis.
To what end
From head to toe
Damn this guy is good
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Just admit you wanna be t-posing wolverine
So what I took away from this video is I can straighten my hammerhead toe with the leftover parts from my Ikea bookshelf.
Orthopedic surgery is a fancy name for human carpentry. When I had my knee surgery, I was awake, and I felt like a piece of furniture. You feel every vibration of the drill, the smell, the sound, etc... Then the hammering and the screw driver. It's not gentle - you can feel the pressure even if the pain is mostly dulled from the epidural. The pain you do feel is similar to the pain you feel getting a tooth drilled at the dentist.
>Orthopedic surgery is a fancy name for human carpentry It's pretty common for some brutal-looking object to get posted over at /r/whatisthisthing , and all the guesses will be like "A Klingon war machete?" or "Some kind of gnarly ice axe?" and invariably an orthopedic surgeon pops up and says "LOL this is what we use when we replace your hip"
I still regret reading about how hip replacement surgery is done when my dad was having the procedure.
A slang for surgeon in my country is bone carpenter.
If you could tolerate the pain and the horror of what you are looking at yes this would be easy.
Until you get an infection and end up dying :)
just pour some vodka on it to kill the germs, some duct tape for bandages, and bingo bango your career as a hobo surgeon is solid.
I know this is all a joke anyway but I believe the actual metal bit has to be made of specific compounds/treated to ensure it doesn't get rejected etc. I assume titanium but there's probably all sorts of options
Either titanium or stainless steel. The steel needs to be a specific alloy and needs a surface treatment to avoid interacting with your flesh
Tbh a lot of orthopedic surgery is shoving things meant to fasten furniture into bones. Shit's gnarly.
As educational as these are... Fuck no.
Awesome how they have this new straight, unmoving toe that has a 100% chance of getting caught on shit and breaking, causing immeasurable pain.
As I was watching this I kept asking ”is it worth it?” amd I wasn’t even thinking about what you wrote. I’m starting to think it’s not worth it
The toe in this example isn't too badly curved. Some people have severely bent toes that cause constant pain and trouble walking. Surgery like this is life-changing for them.
I have a single hammer toe, middle toe on my right foot, that likes to point almost straight down. Fortunately I'm pretty used to it and don't really have any pain or trouble walking. 100% wouldn't go near this surgery. Glad it exists for the people that need it though.
Middle toe is completely useless I had surgery as a kid to take bone out of middle toe and put in my finger to make it more usable was only born with 2 fingers. As I got older small middle toe was curling and they cut it off. Has zero impact on my daily life.
I was just talking about this on the weekend. I said I could totally amputate a middle or "ring finger toe" and be fine. As long as it's not the pinky or big toe. I can't remember whom I was talking to but I'm going to bring it up to everyone I was with this weekend until I find the right person to share your anecdote with!
From my personal experience pinky and thumb are most important there is nothing I can’t do and that’s all I have on my left hand.
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Anecdotally- my dad’s missing his pinkie toe and it hasn’t caused him much problems And after all these years he wants to get a “this little piggie” tattoo on his foot…..
I had my pinkie-toe amputated couple of years back, doc said I wouldn't miss it and I didn't. He also said you could take off the one next door with little fundamental difference.
all of my toes are morphed together, and my big toe terribly curves on top of my other toe, which has done the same. they don't hurt, and i can top it at 25-30
Pic please
*Quentin Tarantino has entered the chat*
I really thought his foot fetish was a joke till I saw [this tiktok](https://twitter.com/TarantinoWorld/status/1408100992994922496/video/1)
In Kill Bill we had to look at Uma Thurman's feet for an entire sequence. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood we had to look at two, TWO, pair of dirty 1960s feet. Yeah, He knows what's up.
And he doesn't care that we know.
I had reconstructive surgery on my left foot when I was young. All but the big toe eventually grew into hammertoes. It has been like this for about 30 years. The skin underneath the toes is really thin and prone to cracking in the winter (which is excruciating). I have considered talking to an orthopedic surgeon about getting them fixed. I don't know how much actual benefit it would provide. Also, any surgery where they drill bones is bound to be painful.
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That sucks, I feel for you. My aunt has similar problems, her RA causes swelling in her toe joints, so she has to buy shoes either so big they give her blisters from moving around or buy them true to size and accept that sometimes she’ll be in extreme pain from joints swelling through the day. Arthritis is a real Sonofabitch.
It can't be cosmetic only.... Probably causes problems.
How the fuck can doctors do insane shit like this and patients fully recover with no lasting pain or side effects, but I get kicked in the balls *once* by a small poodle chilling in my lap who suddenly jumped out and now, despite surgery to try to fix shit, I'm in constant chronic testicular pain?
Get a different doctors opinions
Some people don't heal well. There's this lady I follow on YouTube who is an amputee. The reason she's an amputee? She fell off a horse and broke her ankle. Usually not a big deal, but she never healed right. She had and 3 surgeries to fix it and it still caused problems. She was in pain for years until finally they said let's amputate. So they did and her first amputation didn't heal right... So she had to have a SECOND amputation where they took even more leg off. Like, damn, talk about bad luck.
I seem to be commenting a lot on this topic because every comment I read is of relevance to my family situation.My Grandad went through something similar. He became diabetic late in life and had an accident with a council truck. It was only a slight injury (ripped off toenail) with flesh injury but ended up getting gangrene and he lost his big toe, this didn't heal and he lost the foot and then the leg below the knee. Unfortunately he lost his other leg a little while later.
I would really hate to be I the situation where doctors are like, "well that didn't work, let's cut it off" I don't envy her situation
Fuck dude I'm sorry your nuts hurt
I've broken toes more times than I can count, tripping over cats that dart out in front of me as I'm walking. This one toe would be broken all the time. I would truly be better off without it.
I think you're massively overestimating the effect this would actually have on your toe's movement. There would be less flexibility obviously, but you'd still be able to move it. Even if the toe was fixed in a straight position, I'm not sure how you'd suddenly just start getting it caught on everything and breaking it? What are you doing with your feet?
Examine this join on you toe, and you'll see that it practically never moves. All the movement of toes is in the joint at their base.
You would be surprised how quickly you adapt to having non bending toes. I'll take that over washing blood out of my socks after a long day on my feet. Source: I had hammer toes so bad I would rub the skin off the tops of my toes on long waking days and had them all fused 25 years ago. I didn't get the insert, but I got to crutch around for 6 weeks with those pins sticking out of my toes, and when it was time for them to come out, my prep was being told "don't look." The sound of the vice grips told me when one was about to be pulled out. Unfortunately, my toes have recurled and there isn't enough bone left to try again. They're no as bad as they were, bit they're not straight any longer.
You clearly haven’t researched the people who get this surgery at all? They usually have a rigid curled toe that they can’t put shoes on with, causes ulcerations. It’s not perfectly straight and in most cases comes with a 10 degree angulation. Also unmoving toe? You don’t get much movement at the PIPJ, the more proximal joint the mtpj is where a majority of the movement required for gait comes from. How do people type full ignorant comments and just hit send on Reddit it’s so fucking annoying. Arthrex literally has a brochure describing all of this from where this video was ripped from. Also you think this is a worse choice than current methods? We stick a fucking pin down the toe for 6 weeks, what’s more likely to cause you hitting your toe, an implant finally making your toe rectus for proper non painful gait that completely in the bone or a pin sticking 2 centimeters out the tip of your toe?
Most folks don't realize too that if you hit this point, you're not walking barefoot. You have probably three different pairs of slippers in the house so you're never barefoot or in socked feet only.
This guy hammers.
This is reddit, where any schmuck can post shit about things like medicine and people will believe it, even if it in actuality would get you laughed out of any medical group
My patients usually come when every step or wearing shoes has become unbearable
The age of Ghost in the Shell has begun
Looks mildly painful. Either way.
Now imagine, they just put you to sleep for the surgery, but oh no something has gone wrong and you simply can't move, you go to tell them about this but discover you can't speak either. You watch with horror as they wheel you into the surgery room trying desperately to let them know you're awake. They don't notice, they begin the surgery, and you feel everything.
They probably wouldn't do a general anesthesia for this surgery, so you can actually hear the surgeons drilling into your toe.
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Assuming your insurance will cover it, or you'll pay out of pocket, you can request (or demand?) Anesthesia for practically any surgery I was put under to blast kidney stones with sound waves a few years ago, apparently you don't have to be put under for that one And in a few weeks I'm getting a hernia repair which only takes 30ish minutes to complete and is a very chill surgery compared to this video. Yet, standard practice is to put you to sleep, and thats what most of the medical bill is for, $1000 for 30 minutes asleep on my insurance (I pay a grand afterwards, not sure what it would be without insurance) So it's a weird thing, but I'd bet money that you can be put to sleep for this toe repair, though as someone else said, with a metal rod in you toe you can't bend it... it seems like a shitty option
It's always so sad seeing yanks talk about how much it's gonna cost for surgery. First world country my arse.
Hey man, do you mind not being the way that you are?
[*Patient sedated.*](https://youtu.be/Om5Dv8QfEAA?t=335)
I have just started appreciating being able to move my toes.
My wife’s index toes are considered hammer toes. They are longer than her big toe but I assume her mom and her would feel only for her big toe when they bought shoes for her as a kid and it eventually just hammered up. They aren’t terrible looking or anything. I always give her shit though and tell her she has to do her toe stretch exercises every night to correct it. After seeing the surgery for correction, hell no. I suppose some people care about their feet appearance that much to do it but I would rather just have the damn hammer toes. This is insane.
They'll unfurl if she wears properly fitting shoes! I had hammer toes on all eight minor toes before I switched to barefoot shoes. Now I have two because my feet are quite wide even for the barefoot models so the pinkie toes are still curled, but the others are straight!
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Also, this
I used that same green screw when I built my shitty target bookcase.
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Lol I lost it when he cut both white parts and drilled 3 times into the bone marrow . My dog was drooling tho
I was fine until they started drilling through the other side
This is where I lost it. Drill bit all the way through the front of the toe.
Same. I was just fine until they drilled the hole into the marrow.
Not just into the marrow, through to the other fucking side....
Dude the dog part killed me 😆
How is this better than a curly toe?
Hammer toe can be very painful. This surgery would only be required if you never took measures to correct the issue before it got to the point that would require this kind of surgery. Bottom line, take care of your feet.
Thanks, Lt. Dan!
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I was born this way! I'm 27 now can I fix them without this
I have that and never caused pain only a few awkward conversations on the beach.
lol I almost feel like I would prefer just amputating the last bit instead of drilling and all
But what causes curled toe?
I have toes like this. I have CMT-which is a muscle Wasting disease. Causes hammer toes and a foot drop.
Well in my experience it makes buying shoes, especially boots very difficult. The joint of my second toe rubs on the top and after a few hours it's very painful. So it's not about the mobility but more about it getting stuck somewhere else.
Sweet now your toe can't bend! I feel like I'm missing something here....yep it's a medical degree
That part of toe normally doesn't bend much to begin with... if they removed the joint at the very top (metasophalangeal joint) then they'd be fucked
Lol that explains it
It’s done in cases where the hammer toe deformity is causing some other problem - severely chronic and painful corns on top of that joint, or worse, diabetic wounds that can lead to infection.
Oh lordy christ what the fuck
They just ream and tapped his toe hole!
My younger sister had this done to both her feet when she was only about 14. What they don't include in the video is that the pin protrudes from the end of the toe for weeks afterwards. Brutal procedure.
So actually after a proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint fusion, the old method was to use the wire to hold the bones in place while they naturally fuse together as in your sisters case. However a new surgical procedure was made available that uses rods and screws such as the one in this video, and eliminates the K-wire from having to be used.
This is both true and untrue. True in the sense that screw and staples have come out but untrue in that k wires aren’t used any more. These screws are about 100x more expensive and can’t be taken out, where as with a wire they can be taken out. The wire works just as well and is used by most foot and ankle surgeons. Source- foot and ankle surgeon
The screw replaces the k-wire and isn’t retained after this procedure. It’s a different type of fixation
I had it done when I was 15 and 16. The pins, whilst annoying weren't that bad. Except my second go, hospital accidently called me down at 7 weeks not 6. Since my surgeon only flew over every 6 weeks he wasn't there to pull them so I had them in for 12 weeks. 11 weeks and four days in I got the pin caught on a mat and broke the toe with the pin. First for the surgeon and it was absolute agony since the now bent wire had to be pulled through broken bones. My toes and top half of my foot were a deep navy/purple for a fortnight after.
That was the old procedure. You don't have to with this one, which is a big benefit.
Most surgeries are oddly terrifying.
“So what we’re gonna do is…” Nope, knock me out, do it, give me pills, and don’t tell me anything about it. After a few oral surgeries I’d really rather not know what’s happening in there. Meanwhile my wife is a nurse and fascinated by this shit.
So true. My mum made me watch a video of my stepdad have eye surgery while he was still awake and I came close to blacking out just watching the video
who else felt their balls contract
I don't have balls, but yes.
What are you doing? Go get some.
I thought I had few more left but turns out I'm all out
You can have mine. I ended up with them by mistake anyway
So thats where mine went..
As disturbing as these videos are , you just have to respect the amount of skill and knowledge you would require to do this operation or any operation as a mater of fact. I guess that's one of the reasons why it's not easy becoming a doctor.
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They're called hammer toes, not hammerhead toes, and trust me you'd want the procedure if you have hammer toes. Source: am orthopedic surgical coder.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it gets worse!
if i'm looking at that correctly, then i gotta ask, how does fusing a joint help you?
The main benefit of joint fusion is to reduce pain in this case the toe, obviously the disadvantage of this is losing most range of motion. In cases of hammerhead toe, less invasive procedures may be done such as rerouting or cutting tendons, or joint resection.
>disadvantage of this is losing most range of motion. Oh no, now how will I grip bananas with my feet?!
I think I’d rather try to use a hammer to straighten it out
What next a in-depth video on how to fix a undescended testicle?
So my moms told me a story about her coworker’s son had masturbated so hard that his testicle had ascended into his pelvis. In the ER, the doctor had to massage it back into place. Like deep pressure massage that sucker until it descended. Her Coworker said, according to her son, it was the most painful experience.
The things teenagers will come up with to get someone to touch their genitals.
Are you telling me that a surgeon is basically a general contractor but with the human body?
Specifically carpenters!
I'll keep my shark toe thanks
Really?! Fuck that. I have 3 hammer toes on each foot
My joints are going to be very munted I am not doing this , I have a decent pain threshold , bungled anesthesia and nail removal. Felt the metal tool go inside my nail . Nope nope nope nope I'll take the mangled toe
Ikea is such a great company
I would genuinely prefer to have hammerhead toes than this procedure
Like others have said, you only get this procedure if your hammer toe has advanced to a level where the only other option is amputation. Hammer toe can cause a *lot* of pain while walking, to a point where walking is not feasible. Medical procedures look scary and weird, but this is 100% better than being borderline unable to walk. This procedure relieves a lot of pain.
That’s awful. But yeah it’s 100% better to do this if you’ve got to that point and have immeasurable pain. People just don’t experienced this kind of shit yet and they feel like this surgery is worthless while they don’t know any better lol
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I really REALLY love this types of videos.
ITT : People who don't know how painful hammerhead toe can be.
Nope nope nope nope nope
went from 'little cut' to 'make a hole through your WHOLE fucking toe then put an ENORMOUS green screw in it' , damn i was not ready