Courtney Conley

When you think of all the diagnoses that we talked about, bunions, neuromas, hammer toes, when the forefoot can splay, the foot's going to function better.

So that's number one.

Number two is having the heel and the toe in the same plane.

And number three is having a shoe that is thin and flexible.

When you wear this type of footwear, I call this a workhorse shoe because there is more loads going through all of your tissues, through your bones, through your ligaments, through your tendons, through your muscles.

So your foot gets stronger when you wear this type of footwear.

There's research on that.

Now, you have to earn your right.

This is the plantar fasciopathy conversation.

You can't go from wearing an aggressive, high-cushioned shoe.

Like this one here?

Yes, with an insert, for example, and say, oh, this stuff makes sense.

I'm going to go take that off, and I'm going to go wear this 24 hours a day.

You won't like me.

Because you'll say, hey, my heel's hurting.

because you haven't done the work.

It's, hey, let's do these foot exercises.

Let's wear this for 10 minutes a day.

And then people are like, wow, that does feel better.

And then it's a transition into wearing this more often.