Comfy Feet

16/09/2023

08/11/2021

MIQ is a lottery of human misery and it’s gone on long enough. Fully vaccinated Kiwis with no COVID are shut out of their homeland while over 500 people with COVID isolate at home in Auckland. Fully vaccinated travellers present negligible risk. Just two fully vaccinated travellers in MIQ have tes...

16/03/2021

Australia has welcomed people quarantine-free from New Zealand since October last year but New Zealand won’t return the favour.

02/05/2020

Dr Jenny Sanders of Financial District Foot & Ankle Center in San Francisco, shows you to to correctly measure your foot in order to get the proper shoe size...

02/05/2020

Dr Jenny Sanders of Financial District Foot & Ankle Center explains how width and depth contribute to better fitting shoes. Understanding the concept of volu...

18/10/2019

Five Shoe-Lacing Strategies To Help Address Patient Comfort With Shoes July 29, 2019 By Denise Bonnin DPM As podiatrists, we counsel our patients regularly regarding proper shoe gear. Stability, cushioning, arch support, heel drop, and toe box are just a few aspects we consider in those recommendati...

18/10/2019

At the beginning of my freshman cross-country season for the University of California (UC)-Davis Aggies, our coach provided all of the runners on the team a pair of new running shoes for us to train in for the 1975 cross-country season. The running shoe in question, the Brooks Villanova, much to our...

25/08/2019

Do you have cracked heels? Take them to a podiatrist because

25/08/2019

Great piece of footwear education posted here by
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The toes are critical for our sense of balance, especially during the toe off portion of walking and running that we call propulsion
When our toes are not properly spaced and grasping the ground, our legs and upper bodies are forced to make compensations for the instability of our toes and our gait is less balanced and less efficient⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Most shoe wearing people begin to lose the function of their toes early in life because almost all shoes push the toes together and hold them above the ground surface
We make compensations for our faulty walking, but the cost of these compensations is foot deformity, leg and back pain and abnormal gait
Thus, it makes sense to find shoes that allow an individual to spread their toes and have the ends of their toes next to the ground
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13/02/2019

Have you tried all of the off the shelf treatments for your verrucae but to no avail? See a Podiatrist for diagnosis and treatment.

14/09/2018

We know only too well how painful ingrown toenails can be. Take it to a Podiatrist as soon as the pain strikes.

27/08/2018