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December 20, 2008 / Saturday
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That problem I've been having with my new skates pushing too hard on the bump on top of my left foot? I spent some time looking into it today.
That bump, it's a metatarsal cuneiform exostosis. I don't remember if it was always there. I don't think so. Fortunately it doesn't really bother me except in these new skates.
I took a look at my old skates. Why didn't they hurt the bump? An inspection revealed an indent in the tongue where it met the bump. That, and the tongue kept a deeper side-to-side curve when the skate was laced up.
I decided to do the same to the new skates. I didn't want to drive all the way to EWH to have this done, so I grabbed the Ramune marble (it's the flaming thing on the left in this picture) we freed last weekend, a long nose vice grip, a rag, and got to work. I put a nice dent in the tongue to match the bump on my foot and laced in.
So far, so good. I'll know for sure tomorrow after the game.
Comments
I had the same problem when I bought my skates 2 years ago, and the guy at EWH actually cut out the tongue of my 6 week old skate, removed the hard molded plastic and sewed the tongue back in.
Posted by: caren at December 20, 2008 05:17 PM
Wait, isn't the plastic there for a reason? Could you tell a difference in support?
Wow, I'd totally eek about having that done to new skates...
Posted by: Viv at December 20, 2008 06:12 PM
It helps protect the top of the foot. but considering it was bruising my foot, i took the risk.
Posted by: caren at December 21, 2008 09:45 PM