 Poster: A snowHead
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So, I've always had very, freaky feet in that there's a lump of bone in the middle of them so big I touch them together and not have any other part of my feet touching!
It's never really stopped me from doing much before, I play 11 a side football weekly and climb/boulder to a reasonable standard. Skiing, however, is becoming a pain.
I took a trip down to see a friend in Manchester and hit Chill Factore, had 2 sessions (sat and sun) to find my snow legs again after injury and my skiing wasn't terrible so I was happy. My problem was that my feet were in agony, not the toes, heels, ankles or arches but the 2 bloody great big lumps I have on the inside of each foot.
I'm off to see my doc (again) this week, and I know any treatment will not be much use in time for my ski Trip on the 21st of February.
I wa just wondering if any of you folks have suffered from the same problem and what you can do to releive the pain?
I'm renting my skis and boots for this trip, this I realise isn't going to help but I simply can't afford to be buying boots on top of the total cost. In an ideal world professionally fitted boots would more than likely be the end of my ails but it simply isn't an option at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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go and see a specialist boot fitter - like CEM @ Solutions for feet...
yeah I know it's additional cost..but not sure I'd like to spend c. 1K on ski holiday knowing my feet will be in agony...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I can't afford to buy a pair of ski boots and to have them fitted, simple as that. It's been difficult enough scraping together the money to get away at all, the funds simply aren't there 
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Renting boots ; perhaps find a pair they are about to throw out and cut out a patch of the liner. Difficult to conceive of anything else.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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You could try cutting a sort of doughnut shaped pad out of chiropody felt and sticking it round them so that the protuberance sticks through the middle. After this trip though, you should think seriously if it is worth spending all the money on a ski trip which might be spoilt by sore feet. A trip to CEM would be money well spent.
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I've had trouble with it in the past but nothing like this, it has been 4 years since my last trip so something is obviously different. I may well invest in boots but after my injury I wasn't sure if skiing again was going to be on the cards at all.
Seeing my Doc tonight to see what they might recommend but they're hardly specialist ski doctors so I'm not holding my breath
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NateDoggUK, I have the same extra bone (10% of the population, apparently!) and always had the same problem with rental boots. I only managed to solve the pain issue by buying (first Salomons, more recently Tecnicas – I think both are generally wider so have a look around the rental shops). However, whether you are buying or hiring, unless you have them properly fitted (not an option with rentals of course), you are likely to end up with a pair of boots that fits your accessory navicular, not your overall foot and so will probably be too roomy. An example of this is when I last went ice-skating (not known for choice of rental boots) I had to have a pair of size 14s to accommodate the accessory navicular on my size 11 feet! A good bootfitter will choose the right boot for your foot and then blow it out in the offending area.
The cheapest option might be to find a shop willing to sell you a rental pair and then blow out the sides for you?
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NateDoggUK, BTW, I would say that places like Chill Factore tend to have a very limited range of boots and you should find much more choice in the resort. Make sure you try a few shops.
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I also have one of these ! Not really noticed a problem in my ski boots apart from when I tore all the ligaments and it became more prominent and then I just iced it and took loads of vitamin i !
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Thanks for the suggestions so far everybody, I'm thinking of trying to pick up a pair of boots at the end of this season.
Saw the Doc yesterday (cancellation appointment, whoo!) and he seemed to think it was one of 3 things;
1. Accessory Navicular
2. Neuroma
3. Cysts
The latter 2 seem less than likely as I have exactly the same shape growths on each foot. I'm no doctor but having researched the problem a little and seen images of other sufferers my feet look so similar in appearance I'd be willing to wager I have Navicular problems.
There may be the possibility of some sort of insert which may ease the inflammation, god I hope so.
Boots are on my "to buy list" before my next trip.
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