Re: Re: I have questions and need lots of help!!

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It could be that the shoes are too big. It is good to know it isn't the

others! Also look at the DBB tips and checklist.

Kori, where is it again?

Shook

Retail Operations Manager/Baking Instructor

Vie de France Yamazaki, Inc.

2070 Chain Bridge Rd. Suite 500

Vienna, VA 22182

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Carol,

Are you 1000% sure her heel is seated firmly in the back and bottom of the

shoes? You say they're as tight as they can get. I too thought they

couldn't possibly go tighter but after I found out that I was indeed wrong

about the heel seating down all the way (it was rising about 3-4mm) I found

I got that buckle two whole holes tighter. And amazingly enough she

stopped crying and started sleeping~! You have to bend the knee and

dorsiflex the foot and really shove that heel back into the bottom of the

shoe. Then hold the foot into the back of the shoe with your thumb and

cinch the strap up tight. Pull on the heel and if it moves at all bend the

knee again, dorsiflex the foot as far as it'll go and re-shove it right in

there. Keep pressure on the strap and squeeze and try to tighten up the

strap again. Keep doing that till the foot doesn't move anymore. Then you

can tighten the laces nice and tight. Also, you may want to try elongating

the tongue keeper slit so the tongue sits at or below the top edge of the

boot so the fatty calf doesn't pull it out. You can get the ankle area

tighter if the tongue is low like this.

A more detailed description how to put these shoes on is in the DBB/FAB

tips & tricks post I sent earlier today. If you're sure she's corrected

and she's not atypical then I can pretty much assure you that the problem

is with the heel not being seated well enough. Once you get the heel right

down in there properly and they're tight, tight, tight the foot will not

come out. If you can't solve the problem whatever you do you may want to

cut a hole in the back of the heel so you can see if the heel is sitting

right down on the sole. More of us than you know were surprised to find

out that it wasn't down all the way when we swore up and down that it was.

Hope this helps. Hang in there, it'll work out!

Korio

At 11:34 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote:

>She had shoes put on last month but they would always come out.

>Every time we put one foot in and got it sercured and tried putting

>the other foot in to secure that one then the foot we just put in

>would come out. We found out that her left foot was not all the way

>corrected so they did the tendon release again and now both feet are

>at the 70 degree rotation. I just looked at the shoes and both are

>set as close to 70 as they are. We just changed the bar too because

>the other one was really small. Her dorsiflexion seems really good

>now that she had that second tendon release. Could her problem be

>that the shoes she is currently in are too big for her feet? She is

>barely a zero shoe size but they put her in a size 1 so that she had

>more room to grow than in a size zero. As for her crying I'm

>thinking she is just doing it to look for comfort and not because

>she's in pain. She goes all day long with no crying while her legs

>fly all over the place. Infact she just learned to roll over from

>back to front with the brace and shoes on so I know she's not in any

>pain. I'm just hoping that she gets used to these so that she can

>start sleeping through the night. She isn't wearing the mitchell

>brace just the gold bar that is not adjustable.

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>Thanks for all your help.

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>Carol

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