Injinji Toesocks - How To Choose With Purpose [Blister Prevention Office Hours]

Blister Prevention Office Hours 👣 How To Choose Injinji Toesocks 👣
➡ A monthly Q&A hosted by podiatrist Rebecca Rushton (the BlisterPod) for Podiatrists, Physios, Athletic Trainers, Wilderness Medics, Race Medics and Event Directors, Educators, Footwear Designers, Footwear Retailers, and anyone who deals with foot blisters and their prevention in a professional capacity ⬅

0:00 Preamble
We are talking all about Injinji toesocks today. We recently started stocking Injinji toesocks in the Blister Prevention online store. https://www.blister-prevention.com/shop/ So I had to go through and choose our range.

They differ in several ways. I'd like to suggest that most of us, or at least our patients, choose their sock height (which is mostly personal preference), and then choose the color or the pattern sock that they like the look of.

But we're going to dig a little bit deeper and see if we can't get a bit more purposeful about our choices of Injinji toesock.

1:54 👣 WHICH BLISTERS DO TOESOCKS WORK FOR?
- Interdigital blisters
- pinch blisters.

2:34 👣 HOW DO TOESOCKS WORK TO PREVENT BLISTERS?
1) Creating additional frictional interfaces
2) Manages moisture
3) Cushioning - pressure reduction
4) Shear absorption

4:30 👣 PROS
It’s always a good idea to think about the pros and cons of every strategy that you recommend. So that you know that you're making the right recommendations. The biggest plus to Injinji toesocks is they provide some level of protection for every interdigital space. There's nothing else that does that, not as a single change. So you change from a normal sock to an Injinji toesock, all of a sudden, we've got all those levels of protection.

5:01 👣 CONS
The downsides are related to the upsides. Basically, it means that we've got a lot more sock layers in the finite area of the toe box. So when we wearing toesocks, we're actually adding eight sock layers to the toe box area. If this person gets swelling, or they're doing an activity where swelling is a component, like long distance running or multi-day hiking. And then if they also have to have other preventions or treatments in place, let's say the toesock didn't go far enough to preventing blisters and you need at least a dressing, we're adding even more bulk.

5:46 👣 8 EXTRA LAYERS
So, if we have a look at a toesock, just looking at those extra eight layers and what that actually looks like in real life, that's what it looks like. It's quite a lot more bulk there. Even if you squish it right down, it's still substantial. If you don't have a toesock, just get a sock out of your sock drawer. Fold it over once, fold it over twice, and you'll get an appreciation of those eight layers of sock.

So let's have a look at the way that we can choose and that our patients are choosing toesocks.

6:53 👣 SOCK HEIGHT
First of all, they'll probably choose the height that they prefer. I don't think this pertains too much to blister prevention. As long as it’s keeping muck out of the, out of the sock, from getting between the sock and the skin, I think it’s much of a muchness - it’s down to personal preference.

7:17 👣 ACTIVITY
Then there's activities. Injinji break their socks down into run, ultra run, trail and sport, and a couple of other categories. But these in the main ones,
They cater mostly to runners. There's very few sport, very few trail socks and there's a few ultra run, but mainly they are in the run category.

7:50 👣 SOCK FIBERS
- Merino Wool
- CoolMax Ecomade
- Other: Nylon and Lycra

10:12 👣 SOCK THICKNESS
- Ultra-thin
- Thin
- Padded
- Padded+

11:19 👣 THE BLISTER PREVENTION INJINJI TOESOCK RANGE
These are the socks that I've chosen to stock in our store: https://www.blister-prevention.com/product-category/socks/

14:20 👣 GENERAL SOCK ADVICE

16:00 👣 WHAT TO DO IF YOU STILL GET BLISTERS

17:19 👣 BLISTER PREVENTION OFFICE HOURS Q&A

17:41 👣 QUESTION 1
"Injinji liners with waterproof socks"

20:00 👣 QUESTION 2, 3 & 4
"Defense Force boot conditions and recommendations", "how to prevent blisters in netballers" and "preventions for trail marathons".

21:18 👣 QUESTION 5
“Multi-day running events, blisters drained or not drained”.

23:11 👣 QUESTION 6
“Do you find hydrocolloid plasters worsen deroofed blisters in running or hiking?

24:59 👣 QUESTION 7
"Case studies on orthotics reducing blisters at the interphalangeal joint of the hallux.”

26:11 WRAPPING UP
I hope this has been helpful in regards to choosing Injinji toesocks. I hope that you just understand the socks a little bit better. Not just understand more, but also understand what we don't know about how they work. 👋

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