HuntersEmma57
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I thought I posted this last night, but since I haven't seen it, I will rewrite and apologize for any duplication.
I am probably not alone in believing that even a really great ski boot is gonna be uncomfortable at times. Just wearing different socks. Water retention from that pizza the night before. Over-tightening buckles on the first run. I simply ignore discomfort.
Don't do that.
Early this season, I discovered a bolt missing on the inner side of one boot where the cuff is connected to the foot part of the boot. I took it to the boot fitter, they apologize, & replace the nut and bolt.
A week later, the nut falls off. The bolt is too short. Of course, getting this special nut and bolt requires a second 120 mile trip to the boot fitter.
I've been skiing mostly groomers since (2 weeks) and had not put my boots to a real test until a few days ago when we finally got some SNOW deep enough to get off piste. By my second run, I have shooting pain, I mean SHOOTING PAIN, in my foot when driving the boot hard and I am starting to flinch. Flinching on really tight technical terrain is not cool.
Don't do that either.
I went into the lodge, took my boots off, and discovered a very red nearly dime-sized hard hard bump - quite painful to the touch. Turns out, the nut from the second "repair" was gouging into my liner and the constant rubbing caused a bone spur.
I didn't even know it was possible to get a bone spur up on the inner side of a foot and thought a bone spur was something that took months or years to form. But I confess, I'd never given much thought at all to bone spurs.
So yesterday, I made the 120-mile round trip a third time. Turns out, they had overtightened the replacement nut and bolt which caused a concave/divot in the plastic of my boot. That divot puts pressure on the side of my foot about an inch in front of my ankle bone. The manager issued a heartfelt mea culpa and spent an hour and a half getting it right. But now "right" includes having to ski with a bone spur. I have no experience with this.
I skied groomers half a day today and the adjustments made yesterday worked well until I went off piste into hard, nasty, bumpy former powder. started to feel it.
From what little I've read, bone spurs don't go away on their own and can't be dissolved. One answer: Surgery.
The surgery is described as very quick and simple and patients typically return to normal activity in a few days. After cutting thru skin, shaving bone, stitching/gluing the skin back together that I could go skiing on that foot a few days later? I'm not buying it. Maybe skiing (or my whole lifestyle) isn't considered "normal" activity.
1. Anyone out there with any experience with bone spurs? What was recovery like?
2. Are they ways to protect or buffer the spur? Would mole skin work to relieve some pressure on it?
Thanks!
I am probably not alone in believing that even a really great ski boot is gonna be uncomfortable at times. Just wearing different socks. Water retention from that pizza the night before. Over-tightening buckles on the first run. I simply ignore discomfort.
Don't do that.
Early this season, I discovered a bolt missing on the inner side of one boot where the cuff is connected to the foot part of the boot. I took it to the boot fitter, they apologize, & replace the nut and bolt.
A week later, the nut falls off. The bolt is too short. Of course, getting this special nut and bolt requires a second 120 mile trip to the boot fitter.
I've been skiing mostly groomers since (2 weeks) and had not put my boots to a real test until a few days ago when we finally got some SNOW deep enough to get off piste. By my second run, I have shooting pain, I mean SHOOTING PAIN, in my foot when driving the boot hard and I am starting to flinch. Flinching on really tight technical terrain is not cool.
Don't do that either.
I went into the lodge, took my boots off, and discovered a very red nearly dime-sized hard hard bump - quite painful to the touch. Turns out, the nut from the second "repair" was gouging into my liner and the constant rubbing caused a bone spur.
I didn't even know it was possible to get a bone spur up on the inner side of a foot and thought a bone spur was something that took months or years to form. But I confess, I'd never given much thought at all to bone spurs.
So yesterday, I made the 120-mile round trip a third time. Turns out, they had overtightened the replacement nut and bolt which caused a concave/divot in the plastic of my boot. That divot puts pressure on the side of my foot about an inch in front of my ankle bone. The manager issued a heartfelt mea culpa and spent an hour and a half getting it right. But now "right" includes having to ski with a bone spur. I have no experience with this.
I skied groomers half a day today and the adjustments made yesterday worked well until I went off piste into hard, nasty, bumpy former powder. started to feel it.
From what little I've read, bone spurs don't go away on their own and can't be dissolved. One answer: Surgery.
The surgery is described as very quick and simple and patients typically return to normal activity in a few days. After cutting thru skin, shaving bone, stitching/gluing the skin back together that I could go skiing on that foot a few days later? I'm not buying it. Maybe skiing (or my whole lifestyle) isn't considered "normal" activity.
1. Anyone out there with any experience with bone spurs? What was recovery like?
2. Are they ways to protect or buffer the spur? Would mole skin work to relieve some pressure on it?
Thanks!
