vascular supply to the area.Surgery aims to re-attach the loose body and replacement cartilage is a technique that is being tried out.Apparently the outlook is good if the fragment reattaches sucessfully. But, if not, it will need removing with Osteo-Artritis

, it is basically artritis of the big toe joint, mine is better when I am wearing no shoes at all, shoes just resrict everything, I too have thrown all my narrow shoes away.

by same doctor as at my local hopsital but in a nice private clinic. Its not just the morbidly obese that health athorities will not operate on ... it is also those that are tooo skinnyand for very similar reasons I'm in my late 40's & have had artritis

It was suggested I went to the physio. I looked at private prices £50 per session, bit out of my  budget, so thought I'd go NHS. Went to docs yesterday who said it was 'very unlikley that i would be accepted' as it was a low priority injury (compared to artritis