Toe injuries can sideline even the toughest

Toe injuries can sideline even the toughest
Oh, the knee may get most of the press when it comes to sports injuries. Who hasn heard of the ACL, after all?
But it was big-toe injuries that sidelined Chargers tight end Antonio Gates and wideout Eric Parker this past season. Baseball players, particularly speedy outfielders, can get them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too.
Parker the Chargers third leading receiver three years running missed the whole year because of a broken big toe. And Gates who dislocated his big toe in the first playoff game Jan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. 6 was basically useless for the rest of the championship run.
Two months after the season, Gates is nowhere near recovered. His big toe is still not near 100 percent. The Pro Bowler had surgery Feb. 27 and could need a whopping six months to recover.
Such injuries to the big toe are on the increase and now, according to one study,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], trail only ankle and knee injuries when it comes to sidelining university athletes.
How can such a tiny thing neutralize such incredibly strong, conditioned, other-worldly bodies? The big toe appears to be the real Achilles heel.
definitely the giant killer, said Jack Bechta,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Parker agent. need the toe to push off,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for balance,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for planting,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], all these things we take for granted. has learned much about the big toe,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], having had a couple of players he represents suffer problems with it lately.
such a durable but delicately engineered part of the body, he said.
At first,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it was believed that harder, less-giving artificial turf was to blame for the increase in toe injuries. A phrase was coined to describe it: turf toe.
But new footwear is the more likely culprit, said Dr. Doug Richie, past president of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine and a Seal Beach-based podiatrist. New-generation shoes provide the kind of traction and support that athletes in the past never had.
The traction is so good that the foot inside may not get the natural give it should,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Richie said. That means the player foot can suffer abrupt collision within the shoe itself.
Today players also seek lighter,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], more flexible cleats instead of the more rigid ones of the past, he said. They help increase speed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but offer less protection.
It amazing the amount of physical torture football players endure. Take Gates and Parker, for instance. They run full speed from the line of scrimmage, catch balls over the middle of the field and take hits from speedy, strong defenders. Their heads snap back. Their helmets get jarred loose. Their knees buckle.
And they normally get right back up,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
But not if they hurt that big toe badly. Gates was down for minutes after injuring his,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. He had to be taken off the field on a cart.
Meanwhile, Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was able to play in the AFC Championship Game with a torn ACL.
A toe injury can be extraordinarily painful, said Andy Paulin,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], co-head athletic trainer at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut. One problem is giving it proper rest. It not a finger. A toe bears your weight.
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