Hello folks, 2015 marks the start of my ninth year in practice as a chiropodist. They could be a fashion statement, functional device and even a medical device. No other piece of clothing quite works the same exact way, except perhaps for compression garments. You may cause some severe harm to yourself with time with tight shoes. Nevertheless, it extends much farther from that. A bad pair of shoes may be too loose. Where your foot moves around too much over the course of the day and the foot is banging around inside the shoe like a racket ball. This could cause repetitive stress on the foot as well.

Then there’s the bottom of the shoe. People may not even feel the lack of cushioning or perhaps the wrong type of cushioning for their foot shape or type. Depending upon how your foot falls on the ground, the pressures of what part of the foot hits stronger than the rest, your legs will require very different shoes than what you may choose yourself. The biggest obstacle in my line of work is to get someone into a pair of shoes that they’ll wear and would be comfortable in. Functional and comfortable might not always be fashionable. There are quite a lot of ugly orthopedic shoes out there.

Pick your battles with the good ones and bad ones. Your legs will thank you for it, years to come when they aren’t arthritic, painful and deformed. Group Your Shoes – I would like you to do an exercise. Separate all of your shoes into 3 groups. Group A, comfortable shoes that you could walk all day in. Group B will be shoes that you’d only wear if you didn’t have to walk all day in. Lastly group C, shoes that you could literally run a marathon in if you’d to. For many people which are active, they could have a minium of one pair of shoes in all 3 categories, but my own In general only has shoes in the first two group or sometimes only in group A! Look to your shoes or lack thereof .