Re: :I highly recommend using toes to grab the floor

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Although it is true that thinking about a movement you wish to make but at

present cannot does in fact work, I am really dubious about strengthening toes

in this direction

I see this exercise as a way to exacerbate hammer toes. I am doing the exercise

in the opposite way, attempting to lengthen and flatten my toes, so that they

don't cause problems inside shoes, or with tripping over toes hanging down below

the foot on the forward leg swing without shoes on.

My yoga teacher has me on my knees with feet aimed so that toes are pushed well

upward toward the body from their contact with the floor due the position of the

foot.

This has noticeably lengthened and straightened my toes, which gives them more

surface on the ground when being used for walking, allowing for better toe

control, which leads to better balance.

Interestingly, as in my hands, where my thumbs have no strength to have

thumb-finger opposition, my big toes have little if any strength to move either

direction, even as my other toes have strengthened and flattened significantly.

On Oct 17, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Donna D wrote:

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> Take a towel under your foot. Using your toes scrunch it up moving it under

your foot. Then the reverse - use your toes to push it away. Everyone I met did

this. Even just thinking about moving - if you can't today imagine it - can

apparently help stimulate re-enervation!