1. Mintz, Suzanne Geffen. 2014. “The Double Helix: When The System Fails The Intertwined Needs Of Caregiver And Patient.” Health Affairs 33, no. 9: 1689-1692. (accessed October 16, 2017).
Suzanne Mintz is a family caregiver and she co-founded the Family Caregivers Association. This peer-reviewed article discusses Suzanne’s struggle after breaking her toe and how the break negatively affected her ability to work. She talked about how she felt as though her doctor was not able to provide her with much help. She felt as though there was not much she could do about her unfortunate situation. This source is helpful in recognizing that there is a problem with how broken toes are treated and that a solution must be found.
2. Richards, John W., and David Govaker. 1996. “Alternative Buddy-Taping for a Broken Toe.” Journal Of Family Practice 43, no. 6: 524. (accessed October 16, 2017).
John W. Richards and David Govaker are both writers for the Journal of Family Practice and are discussing a new method for treating a broken toe. They are suggesting that the current method of taping a toe to a neighboring toe can actually be detrimental for the fracture and cause greater amounts of pain than the toe would feel without the tape. This source is valuable for my project because it shows that there are clear issues with the current method of healing broken toes and perhaps a new treatment could arise that will be better than the current one.
3. Roland, James. “Everything You Should Know About a Broken Toe.” Healthline. (December 09, 2016). Accessed October 16, 2017.
James Roland is a staff writer for Healthline who is discussing everything that goes into a broken toe. He discusses all of the symptoms and treatments and talks about how there is not so much that a doctor can do about a broken toe. He brought up the method of taping a toe to its neighbor as the primary treatment for a mild broken toe. This article is helpful in showing that there really is only one common held method which is not the method that I am suggesting we create. I believe that isolating the toe and placing it in a hard splint would be more beneficial for the healing process than taping the toe it to its neighbor and this article proves that my method has not been fully tried yet.
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