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HAVE ONLY RECENTLY REJOINED DIGEST AND WAS INTERESTED TO SEE AN ARTICLE REQUESTING FURTHER INFO.ON DETERIORATING FOOT PROBLEMS. IT READ AS IF IT WAS MY CASE HISTORY.HAD BEEN TREATED BY PODIATRIST FOR PLANTERS WART IN BALL OF FOOT LATER DEVELOPING INTO A HARD CALLOUS CAUSING PAINFUL WALKING WAS PRESCRIBED A PAIR OF CUSTOM MADE SHOE INSERTS ONLY PARTIALY PAID FOR BY OUR INSURANCE PLAN AFTER SEVERAL YEARS THESE CEASED TO BE AFFECTIVE WITH CALLOUS REAPPEARING.AND EXTREMELY PAINFUL WALKING ETC. IN THE MAENTIME WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PD. SAW A DIFFERENT PODIATERIST WHO REFERRED ME TO A COLLEAGUE WHO DIAGNOSED FOOT DROP AND RECOMMENDED A NEW PROCEEDURE CALLED "SPLAT"- PERFORMED AT THAT TIME ONLY BY A COUPLE OF PODIATRISTS. IT IS A SPLIT TENDON ATTACHMENT.AT THE FRONT OF THE LEG JUST ABOVE ANKLE HEIGHT TENDONS ARE SPLIT ATTACHED BY RODS TO FOUR SMALL TOES ONTHE RIGHT FOOTPULLING THEM PERMANATELY ERECT WHEN HEELED RODS REMOVED AND TOES ARE PERMANANT STIFF DO NOT BEND BUT CURES THE FOOT DRAG.WAS PERFORMED ONE DAY SURGERY BUT HEALING PROCESS OVER A GOOD THREE MONTHS PLASTER CAST TO KNEE THEN REDUCED TO ANKLE HEIGHT GRADUATING TO BOOT ANOTHER 6 WEEKS.HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL BUT WAS A LONG HEALING PERIOD AND EXPENSIVE PROCEEDURE MUST HAVE GOOD INSURANCE COVERAGE SOME YEARS HAVE NOW PASSED PD PROGESSED FARTHER AND DURING OFF TIMES AND WHEN OVERTIRED THE FOOT WILL BEGIN TO DRAG, BUT OVERALL WAS GOOD BUT WOULD NOT HAVE IT DONE AGAIN AND THE CALLOUS HAS JUST STARTED TO APPEAR ONCE AGAIN !!CAN BE KEPT DOWN BY REGULAR PARING DOWN BY THE PODIATRIST THAT IS NOT COVERED BY OUR INSURANCE CO.DOES NOT SOUND MUCH OF A SOLUTION DOES IT ? BUT THOUGHT A CHANCE TO TELL MY STORY. GOOD LUCK IN FINDING A SOLUTION. LOVE HOPE AND FAITH MARGARET CLARK 59/11