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Part 4: STAYING PAIN-FREE DURING COVID-19 – FEET
Believe it or not, April is National Foot Health Awareness Month, so what better time to cover keeping your feet pain-free than now? Frankly, every day should be foot health awareness day, because let’s face it…these dogs are always hurting us. They get injured. They’re deformed from the time we’re born. We wear the wrong shoes most of our lives, and they bear the weight of our entire body. Here’s how to help keep them pain-free and give them a little love while you’re at it. Rest: If your feet are hurting, get off them for a little while. Elevate your legs and feet, especially if they’re swollen. Massage your…
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PLANTAR FASCITIS
If you’re female and over 40, stretch your feet every morning before you get out of bed. I think this was one of my very first advice-giving posts. Why this? Why was this my first tidbit of advice for my readers? Because I see at least one to two women every day in my office with this problem. I have 35 partners, many of whom each see a similar numbers of patients with plantar fasciitis every day. Our foot and ankle specialists, probably see even more. Do a little extrapolation and you can begin to imagine the amount of plantar fascial pain out there and then the cost of…
