patching heel blisters

Jan 12, 2015 · by John · In: blister care, Foot Care, Footwear, Footwear Products Tagged: blisters, engo patches, heel blisters, jungle marathon, patching heel blisters

Heel blisters are quite common – although they shouldn’t be. Today’s post shows one participant’s feet at the 2014 Amazon Jungle Marathon. If you look closely at this picture, you’ll see two heel blisters, both on the outside of the runner’s feet. The right foot blister is large but is not blood-filled. The blister on the left heel, however, is very large and filled with a large amount of blood. It’s easy to think these are normal blisters – but their size makes they abnormal. In my …

Dec 26, 2010 · by John · In: blister care, Foot Care Tagged: blisters, heel blisters, patching blisters, patching heel blisters, TransRockies

Last week I wrote a post about the horrific heel blisters I had seen at the 2010 six-day Gore-Tex TransRockies Race. If you have not read that post, or want to read it before going on to this Part II, here is the link. To refresh your memory, here's a brief description: The heel blisters covered the whole bottom of the heel side-to-side, and were 1 ½ to 2 ½ inches in length, towards the mid-foot. In most runners, the forward most edge of a blister had torn and opened up across the whole bottom …

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