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Military Foot Care Essentials – Protecting You From The Ground Up!  Our feet are our foundation and we must take proper care of them. Service members in basic training, advanced training, or who are deployed are especially prone to painful conditions stemming from their feet. Most of these conditions can be managed, if not prevented altogether with proper foot care and investing in yourself with some solutions that don’t have to cost a lot but that are extremely effective. The following is a list of ways you can protect your feet and hopefully keep you pain-free and injury free:  The...

A question that I get a lot is “Do you have insoles for my dress shoes, or my tight-fitting shoes?” To their surprise, most of the time my answer to this question, is “definitely.” My job as a Certified Pedorthist & Therapeutic Shoe Fitter is to help people overcome painful foot conditions as well as help with knee, hip, and back pain from mal alignment. My other job is to find proper footwear that my clients are actually going to wear. I call this “integrating fashion and function” and I’m pretty darn good at it. If my clients can give...

What Is Graduated Compression – And Can Anyone Benefit From It?  Normally when we think of graduated compression or performance compression bracing, we think of either athletes or those needing it for a medical condition. This way of thinking couldn’t be further from the truth. Compression can be a benefit to virtually everyone. In this piece, I’m going to outline what graduated compression is, how it works, what it’s used for, and common compression bracing products and their specific benefits and features. Yes, anyone can benefit from graduated compression.                       ...

The feet are complex structures that, as you already know, are particularly important. Our feet are our foundation, and their functions are to bear our weight when standing and propulsion, ie. Walking, running, jumping, etc.  But do you really know your feet and what can go wrong with them? In this piece I will dive into what makes up the feet, painful conditions that affect the feet and ways different treatment options for painful foot conditions.  What exactly makes up the feet?  The feet are flexible structures of bones, joints, muscles, and soft tissues that let us stand upright and...

What Is A Quality Sock – How To Choose The Right Sock For you  Socks are an important consideration for all of us as they are the first interface with your feet! They are important in protecting our feet as well as should be keeping them cool and dry. Hot, wet feet inside a shoe can cause a multitude of issues including friction, blisters, fungus, bacteria, and itchy/hot feet. In this post I will go over the history of socks and then home in on the major characteristics of athletic/lifestyle/compression socks on the market as well as important components of...