Re: EDS feet picture...Can YOU do this...Easy test:

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In a message dated 5/5/2003 5:10:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

bheint@... writes:

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> So can I lift my big toes off the ground!

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> Monkey toes??? Simian Toes??

Me too, me too!

Debbi

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I had to think about it for a few seconds because it wasn't natural, but I

could do lift both my big toes! You mean " normal " people can't?

Wow...very strange indeed! Thanks for sharing!

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So can I lift my big toes off the ground!

Monkey toes??? Simian Toes??

Re: EDS feet picture...Can YOU do this...Easy test:

I had to think about it for a few seconds because it wasn't natural, but I

could do lift both my big toes! You mean " normal " people can't?

Wow...very strange indeed! Thanks for sharing!

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LOL I too can do this NO PROBLEM at all. LOL

Sharon

> This one is SOOOO easy :-D.

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> I found this picture at the emedicine site. The page in question is

about

> Ehlers-Danlos. You will have to scroll almost to the end of the

page to see

> pictures of EDS people doing their stretch. The medical pictures

show classic

> examples of EDS.

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> What is amazing about the feet picture, is that they show how an

EDS person

> can raise their big toe. Who Knew :-> WoW!

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> On the website scroll to the picture of two feet. The picture says:

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> Caption: Picture 1. Patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Note the

abnormal

> ability to elevate the right toe. Courtesy of Enrico Ceccolini, MD.

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> The website is: http://www.emedicine.com/DERM/topic696.htm

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> Enjoy the test. Tell others.

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> Oh, not only could I raise my big toe while standing, both of my

toes pointed

> to the ceiling. My husband is still laughing about it. His toes

were just

> like the classic picture.

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> Caro

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Me too!

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Is this really abnormal? I can do this, and I don't have EDS. I can also do

picture 7 and 9. The top joint on my fingers and thumbs flex back a long way

too. I am quite flexible for a 'normal' person and I have always had very

dextrous toes, I pick things up with my toes all the time. I definitely

don't have a collagen disorder though.

However, Danny and Allie can do everything in those pictures, and actually

can do even more than picture 3.

Cheers, Glenda

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I thought everybody could do that.

Ilene

You only have one life. Live it to the fullest.

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I am laughing about the toe picture!

When my mother was pregnant with me one of my dad's friends said, " If

that baby isn't born with its big toes sticking up in the air then it

can't be Owen's baby! " And they all had a good laugh because my dad

sticks his toes straight up like that. And then I came along & could

do that. My sister-in-law calls it creepy toes.

So that toe photo is me to a T! (or to a toe!)

Joy

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> What is amazing about the feet picture, is that they show how an EDS

person

can raise their big toe. Who Knew :-> WoW!

OK I think that this isn't an EDS thing at all. I just ran a mini poll at

gym at school. I tried out 30 children who are six or seven years old. Half

of them could lift their big toes independently and half couldn't!

Also, there are two hypermobile children in Allie's class (including her).

The other child is almost definitely a HEDS person, I've sent her and her

mother off to the geneticist. She couldn't do it at all.

Cheers, Glenda

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In a message dated 5/5/03 8:59:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

shazzinoz@... writes:

<< LOL I too can do this NO PROBLEM at all. LOL >>

Yup, me too!!!

Sue G.

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I really didn't know this was part of the EDS... I can do it easily

with both big toes and also move the toes next to them independently.

I can pick up stuff really well with my feet!!! LOL

Hugs,

Tori

HEDS, NY

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On 5/5/03 10:02 PM, " ceda " <ceda > wrote:

> Re: EDS feet picture...Can YOU do this...Easy test:

My feet are similar to those in that the toes are so short; almost like I am

missing a toe joint --> I am not missing the joint but they just look

*that* short. The joints are withing millimeters of each other. If I

point my toes they will cramp up and I don¹t know what it is; dislocation or

just cramp. They will make them stick straight in the air. It hurts like

the dickens though and the only way I can get it to undo it's sad little

self is to walk on the foot. Anymore; I can scarcely go without shoes as it

will do it. Sometimes it will do it in the car when I am driving -- with

shoes on. It happened to me constantly when I was trying aqua therapy. I

was surpprised when all the grandmas around me didn¹t have the same thing

going. It happened a great deal when I was pregnant too. I don¹t think the

short toes is EDS though; my two girls have very long toes. (they often

mock mine)

aj