Courtney Conley

And wouldn't you be if... So there wasn't any magic exercise that I was going to give him two years into this.

There wasn't any magic orthotic or magic shoe.

He had done all of that.

Shame on me if I would have done the same thing.

So we had a conversation.

And...

I knew I needed to get him outside and I needed to get him walking.

That was my goal.

Forget about the heel pain.

We didn't even focus.

We didn't even talk about the heel pain.

I knew I needed to get him outside and start loading his foot.

Two years, this foot, by the way, when you're walking, four to six times your body weight.

It can handle four to six times your body weight when you're walking.

But you don't load it appropriately and muscles atrophy.

So I told him.

We had a long, long conversation.

And I said, we're going to slowly start to introduce steps.

And if you think about this, if we were to say add 1,000 steps a day, to some people that might not sound like a lot.

But to someone who's taking 2,500 steps, that's almost 50% of what they're doing.