Stickiness Archives - Fixing Your Feet

Sep 8, 2013 · by John · In: blister care, Foot Care, Foot Care Products, Footwear, Sports Tagged: Amputation, blister control, Blister Formation, blister prevention, blisters, calluses, Componentry, Dry Shoes, engo, engo blister prevention patches, Friction Forces, Habilitation, Hikers, Moisture Management, Orthopaedic, Painful Irritation, Peace Of Mind, Polytetrafluoroethylene, Preventative Measure, Prostheses, rebecca rushton, shear, Skin Breakdown, Skin Damage, Slippery Surface, Stickiness, tamarack habilitation technologies

In my last post, I talked about four ways to reduce shear and the likelihood of blisters. To recap, they were fit, cushioning, moisture management, and socks. Today’s post will cover a fifth way by using ENGO Blister Prevention Patches. Tamarack Habilitation Technologies is well known for providing healthcare professionals and clients with innovative, value-added orthotic-prosthetic componentry and materials. Their ShearBan product is similar to the ENGO Blister Prevention Patches reviewed in …

Aug 4, 2012 · by John · In: blister care, Foot Care Products, Health, Sports Tagged: Amp Skin, Backpacker Magazine, bag balm, bagbalm, blister prevention. lubricants, blisters, blistershield, bodyglide, Dirt, Disclosure, Endurance, friction, High Mileage, hot spots, hydropel, lubricants, Magazine Article, Mileage, Pain Balm, Pennies, runguard, skin care, Skin Lubricant, Slicker, Socks And Shoes, sportslick, Stickiness, vaseline

This post came about because of a Backpacker magazine article about skills. One of the items was about endurance and was for, “Blistered feet during a high-mileage trek.” The tip was to, “… protect against hot spots by applying a skin lubricant like Vaseline to high-friction areas…” I’m sorry, but I think Vaseline is a bad choice. When I ran my first ultra, back around 1982, there was not a huge choice in lubricants so Vaseline was commonly used. But I learned very quickly that its stickiness …

May 19, 2012 · by John · In: Foot Care Products Tagged: Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Walk, Clean Skin, Foot Care, foot care kit, insoles, Komen Breast Cancer, Komen Breast Cancer Walk, Medical Staff, moleskin, Objection, Old Dog, Ovals, Profoot, S Curves, Stickiness, Susan G Komen, Susan G Komen Breast Cancer, Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Walk, T Touch, vaseline, velvetex, velvetex moleskin

I have held a pretty firm position on moleskin for many years – I don’t like it and I don’t use it. Here are my reasons. It doesn’t stick. It doesn’t shape to the foot’s curves. And it’s too thick. I have no objection to other athletes using it, but I don’t touch the stuff. Several years ago, I worked provided foot care at the 3-day Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Walk in San Francisco. They had a pretty good supply of powder and Vaseline – and boxes of moleskin. Everyone sat around and cut the …

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Mar 25, 2012 · by John · In: Foot Care, Foot Care Products Tagged: Alcohol, Bad Today, Baggies, Foot Care, hot spots, kinesio tex, kinesio-tex tape, leukotape, marathon, Medical Aid, Patches, Runners, Short Time, Stickiness, sticky tape, taping feet

Today I worked the medical aid station at mile 20 of the Oakland Marathon. Saturday I restocked my foot care box, adding supplies that I had depleted during the past events. I also cleaned up my Baggies of patches, and other small items. One of the things I noticed I was short was tape. I added a roll of Leukotape and some Kinesio Tex. The Leukotape was out of a box off my shelf. I knew it had been on the shelf for while, but was unsure how long. A short time into the race, I had several …

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