TORONTO PODIATRIST STATES THAT BROKEN BONES UNLIKELY TO PREDICT WEATHER
posted: Jun. 24, 2012.
TORONTO PODIATRIST AND TORONTO FOOT SPECIALIST, DR. LLOYD NESBITT ANSWERS THE QUESTION AS WHETHER THERE IS ANY TRUTH TO THE BELIEF THAT BONES THAT HAVE BEEN BROKEN CAN HELP PREDICT THE WEATHER? "BACK IN PODIATRIC MEDICAL SCHOOL IN SAN FRANCISCO, A LOCAL RHEUMATOLOGIST TAUGHT US THAT GRANDMOTHERS WOULD OFTEN BE ABLE TO TELL IF IT WAS GOING TO RAIN AS THEIR BUNIONS (ENLARGED BIG -TOE JOINTS) WOULD BE SORE." THIS IS BECAUSE, DURING THE FALL IN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE THAT INDICATES IMPENDING RAIN, THE JOINT CAN EXPAND.
HOWEVER, DR. NESBITT, TORONTO PODIATRIST DOUBTS THAT BONES THAT HAVE BEEN BROKEN WOULD REACT IN A SIMILIAR FASHION. "IN FACT, OFTEN WHEN A FOOT BONE HAS HEALED FROM A BREAK ... IT HEALS WITH A THICKENED OR STRONGER STATE THAN IT WAS ORIGINALLY. UNLESS THE FRACTURE INVOLVED AN ADJACENT JOINT, THAN A BROKEN BONE WOULD BE UNLIKELY TO ENABLE YOU TO PREDICT THE WEATHER."
BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOUR TORONTO CHIROPODIST AND TORONTO FOOT SPECIALIST, MARZ HARDY,D.Ch., B.Sc., (PODIATRIC MEDICINE) AND THE TEAM FROM ACADEMY FOOT AND ORTHOTIC CLINICS