Courtney Conley

Well, first, I want people to start paying attention to their feet.

Okay.

Because it's the only part of our bodies that make contact with the ground that keep us upright and balanced when we walk.

So there's a lot happening there.

We're going to talk about that a lot, I think, aren't we?

When you think of any musculoskeletal diagnosis, whether it's back pain or shoulder pain or knee pain, people who suffer from foot pain, and there's a lot of them out there.

In fact, one out of three people over the age of 45 have foot pain.

Yes.

And when you look at what happens when your foot hurts, your walking is decreased, your sleep is affected.

Basically, so many parts of your life are affected when your foot hurts, but we don't think about it.

If you look at the parts of the foot, so you have the forefoot, the midfoot, and the rear foot, most foot injuries occur in the forefoot.

So this is the front of the foot.

And when you're walking,

you put a lot of load through the ball of the foot.

So we'll see things like bunions, neuromas, hammer toes.

So things that really can affect not only how we're walking and moving, but also can bring a significant amount of pain.

I think my heart just skipped a beat there.

Yes.

First, I want to preface this by saying,

Once I'm done talking about all this, it doesn't mean go home and throw your high heels out.