Top 10 Blog and forum in Google

A few crazy things:

Right so I noticed that my blog is now linked to on here: http://dupuytrens-society.org.uk/TreatmentL.html

Which is great and crazy at the same time, at least it means that my story should reach a few more people and maybe the forum as a place to talk for a few more people. So I thought I would investigate and see what else I could find and found that Google searches for the following words result in the blog coming up in the rank shown:

I also saw that someone had linked to the blog through a search with Ledderhose and weight as their search and the blog comes up 9th with this.

Ledderhose blog - 7th

Plantar Fibroma Blog - Forum is 6th and blog 9th

How to cope with Ledderhose or how to cope with plantar fibroma - 1st (wow)

Ledderhose & running trainers - 7th

Plantar Fibroma Support - Forum - 7th (disappointingly Ledderhose support does not yield the same result)

Christmas and Ledderhose - 3rd

Cali and Ledderhose - 10th (thank you Cali)

Plantar Fibroma Forum - 2nd & 3rd - interestingly the forum does not come up but the blog does in 8th place.

Plantar Fibroma Video - 4th place - another one that has actually been used to find the blog.

Another very likely search to be done is Plantar Fibroma Sportsman where the blog comes 2nd and 3rd.

Plantar Fibromatosis physio -2nd  Interestingly this brings up the review I wrote on Dooyoo which is the same as one of my first posts on here. http://ledderhose.blogspot.com/2011/11/plantar-fibroma-real-pain-in-foot.html. This also comes 3rd if you search for plantar fibroma uk specialist

So as you can see there is a huge chance for people that need help with this disease to come across this blog, come across the forum and hopefully be able to find someone else with the disease even if we can't make the pain go away.

http://plantarfibroma.freeforums.org/index.php




On my travels I also came across this

http://www.pfizer.co.uk/sites/uk/media/pressreleases/Pages/200PeformersCreateGiantHumanHandtoShowImpactofDUPUYTREN%E2%80%99SDISEASE.aspx

I know it is for the hand version (for lack of a better phrase) of the disease but it is good to see someone with a bit of backing trying to raise awareness.

Something different

I hate talking about the same old thing over and over again so I thought it would be nice to touch on something different, so I am going to have a quick mention about Christmas, after all we did get our Christmas tree up on Friday.

I was very interested to see how the cat would act around the tree, I fully expected her to climb it and I waited and I waited and then this morning finally it happened. Sure she got told off straight away but she managed to get quite high. Now we just have the problem of keeping her off of the tree.....

Anyway not long to go now and I am really looking forward to spending time with the families.

How to cope with a Plantar Fibroma/ Ledderhose

Ok so I have been struggling over recent weeks with my Plantar Fibroma / Ledderhose disease. As anyone who reads this will know I have been trying to come up with ways of coping with it and of course there are already ways of doing this that I have been doing for a while now/

1) Where good and supportive footwear. I personally find that the only footwear that I can walk in easily and comfortably is some running trainers. Running trainers do have some disadvantages though especially if  you are living in the UK in the winter, these are that they are normally not water proof and they are normally designed to let the heat out and not keep it in. Still for me they are well worth the compromise.

2) Can't say that this is the best advice but it has helped me, it is actually something that I don't do consciously and would not recommend it. I actually tend to walk on the outside of my foot. Not sure how easy it is to tell from the picture below (actually taken when I was sitting but tried to get a representative image) but that is kind of how I walk. The running trainers are what make this possible without snapping my ankle.

3) Get a hug from a cat - not sure this helps but she wanted to. (You can find videos of her here)

4) Lose weight, this is not easy to do when you don't want to walk but I would suggest trying diets like weight watchers or Slim fast if you need more motivation, Exercise why you can try swimming and cycling as they tend to keep the weight of your feet, even if one does give me ear infections and the other sore ankles.

5) Take the weight you do have off of your feet - I have found that sitting down as much as possible has really helped with the pain, sure it is not a solution to your problems but it does help the pain go away until you next get to see the foot specialist.