Courtney Conley

Topo Athletic.

Notice these shoe companies have wide toe box, low heel to toe drop, but they have cushion underneath the sole of the foot.

So they're great for a city walking shoe because you can walk for miles with your foot in its functional position, but enough cushion to keep you comfortable.

Yes, that is true.

If you look at the literature and the research on how many people are wearing the wrong size shoe, 60%.

The Brannock device.

You can measure the length of your foot and also the width of your foot.

But as we age, things happen.

If the foot is or becomes weaker, you can start to see structural change in the foot.

Wow.

You can start to develop things like bunions, changes in the forefoot.

Those all require...

different types of shoes, pregnancy, menopause, all of those things change what our foot looks like.

And so we have to stay on top of that, especially with children.

Children don't tell you when their shoe gets too tight.

I've had so many patients bring their kids in and their little toes are like scrunched in their shoes.

So their feet grow rapidly.

Every three months, kids should get their foot shoe size.

Well, when you look at the hormonal changes that are happening and also, especially, I'm going, I'm perimenopausal right now and, you know, we have sarcopenia.

You have muscle loss as we age.