Courtney Conley

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.

Now, when you have patients that have had a very weak foot or clients that have had a very weak foot with different diagnoses, this is a hard, you know, shoe to walk around in for extended periods of time.

So that's when we'll talk about footwear that still puts the foot in a wide position, wide toe box.

I love this shoe.

And I also like the mesh upper because the toes can expand in here.

I still have zero drop, right, where the heel and the toe sit in the same plane.

But you'll notice the difference between the two shoes is the amount of stack height or the amount of cushion.

There's more stuff.