Bunions don't get worse! Save your feet with daily "toe exercises"!

Do you have a problem with your bunion rubbing against your shoes when you wear them? Or when you take off your shoes, you find that the bone at the base of your bunion is protruding, red and painful, and the tip of your big toe is tilted towards your second toe. If you have any of these problems, you probably have a bunion! It's a good idea to do some "bunion exercises" to avoid worsening the condition and even making it difficult to walk.

Bunion is a very common foot condition. If you look at your friends and family, especially women, the prevalence of bunion is 10 times higher than that of men, and about every 3 or 4 people will see a person with a different degree of deformation of the big toe.

Chen Peiyu, an attending physician at the Department of Orthopedics at National Taiwan University Hospital, pointed out that a bunion refers to a big toe that is crooked to the outside of the footboard and squeezes the second toe, while the root of the big toe protrudes outward to the inside of the footboard and rubs against the shoe, which is a very common foot disorder.

Most people's bunions are not so bad that they need correction, they are just visually unattractive. However, if a bunion gets serious, it can be so bad that you can't even walk, and Taiwanese artist Jennifer Hsu has had to undergo surgery for her bunion.

The bunion is classified into 4 levels, and in severe cases, it can affect walking and requires surgery.

Before you go to the hospital for a checkup, you can use 2 tricks to check if there is something wrong with the movement of your toes at home.

Big toe up and down bending angle test: You can evaluate the angle of the big toe bending 40° up and 40° down, and compare the two sides to see if there is a significant difference.

Metatarsophalangeal joint internal and external mobility test: For metatarsophalangeal joints to test the degree of internal and external mobility is significantly limited, and there is no ligament loosening, and at the same time, palpation to determine whether there are deformities, generation of bone spurs, pressure and pain.

It is recommended that bunionists stretch and relax the muscles at the base of the big toe, so as to reduce the inward pulling force of the muscles, and at the same time, give training to unfold the toes, to assist in the reset of the foot or to maintain the current situation without deterioration.

The training can be done in the form of a toe-guessing game, using the big toe to match the other toes in a scissors, rock, paper maneuver.

If you have a combination of functional flat feet, you can also do short-foot training, which minimizes the distance between the big toe and the heel bone at three points on the bottom of the foot to create a medial arch.

It is important to note that although bunion exercises can train the soles of the feet to avoid further deterioration of the bunion, if your bunion has already led to other bone spurs, pressure and pain, you need to treat it first, and then seek not to deteriorate.

In addition to polydactyly, flat feet, or rheumatoid arthritis, bunions can be caused by congenital factors such as too long a bunion, but the majority of bunions are caused by the frequent wearing of narrow, pointy-toe, high-heeled shoes, which cause friction and pressure on the toes, leading to the development of bunions. The majority of bunions are caused by wearing narrow, pointed and high heeled shoes, which cause friction and pressure on the toes.

Therefore, in addition to these exercises, the most important thing you can do to prevent your bunion from getting worse is to change to a better pair of shoes. After all, by taking off your high, pointy shoes and replacing them with comfortable flats, you're not only sparing your own feet, you're making it much easier on the whole person.