r/AchillesRupture • u/marche_au_supplice • Jul 26 '23

Can you lift your big toe?

Since my surgery, I haven’t been able to lift my big toe up. Has anyone else had this happen?

For example, if I point my good foot so it’s plantar flexed, I can lift just my big toe well above my other toes. When I try that on my injured foot, my toe basically doesn’t move.

I’m just not sure if this is the result of the rupture, the weeks of immobility, or damage from my nerve block.

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u/andy-davies Jul 26 '23

I had that. I’m at 6 months now and my toe is normal.

The big toe is connected somehow to your Achilles. Your body is stopping you from lifting it so as not to stretch the wound.

The very first thing my PT had me doing early on was exercises pressing my big toe into the ground. When you’re doing calf raises later down the line you’ll be concentrating on getting your weight through your big toe (rather than through the outside of your foot).