Courtney Conley

15%.

That's a big number for 1,000 steps.

So I have a story for you.

This is a patient of mine, and it just, you know, warms my heart to talk about him because when I saw him, he was two years into a diagnosis of heel pain, 27 years old.

So he had gone to see a bunch of people, and the last doctor that he had seen told him to limit his step count to 2,500 steps a day.

to rest, to rest the foot.

Now this is chronic pain.

Now we're not talking acute heel pain.

We are two years into this song and dance and he's being told at 27 years old to take 2,500 steps a day.

So he comes into my office.

We're talking about all of this and he's also a quadruplet.

So it was one of the first quadruplets I think I've ever treated.

So he has, um,

You know, which why I think pain is so difficult.

It's so complicated because now you have this 27-year-old who's seeing his siblings who are at 27, like, enjoy their life and doing all these things.

And he's being told he can take 2,500 steps a day.

So he's now living in his father's basement.

And he's afraid to go above 2,500 steps.

And he used to tell me, he's like, I cry a lot.

I'm depressed.