So I have to wear high heels at work all day,
and by the time I get home at the end of the day,
my feet are killing me. Sure.
What do I do?
Why do you have to wear Okay, let's take a look.
High heels at work?
None of my business, but anyways.
So I work for Acker,
the largest fine and red wine auction house in the world,
so during the day, I just have to stand there and look good.
Any time you have something like this,
it's going to be painful,
because you're putting a lot of pressure in different areas
where our foot just is not in a natural position.
So what we wanna do is look at this x-ray here.
You can see how these bones are shaped
when you're actually in a heel like this.
You know, the pain has to be intense.
One of the things that you can do at home
is you can use a tennis ball,
and what you do with the tennis ball
is you can actually roll it on the bottom of the foot
on your arch, and it can give you that nice massage.
You put some nice pressure on there,
and it really helps the patient, and helps with the pain.
How's it feel?
It's great. Good.
Yeah, I mean, it does help a lot.
Another thing you can do
when you're having ball of the foot pain,
and that's in this area.
You can get something that's called a neuroma,
and kind of feels like you're walking on a balled up sock,
and it can be painful, and can be kinda numb sometimes,
and that's a pinched nerve.
So that's inflammation.
So what you wanna do is you can actually take a water bottle
from the fridge, you can freeze it in the freezer,
and then you can roll that too.
So you're getting the massaging properties
of the tennis ball, and then the anti--
But the frozen water will take down
the inflammation. Absolutely, yeah.
The anti-inflammatory properties of the ice.
How many hours a day can you successfully wear high heels,
or is it just?
I mean, it definitely-- There's no good answer?
There really isn't.
It really just depends on your comfort level.
Look, if something hurts, take it off,
but you do have to be fashionable at certain times,
and you have to dress the part, and I get that,
and if you feel good, do it, it's okay,
but know your limitations.
I'm having trouble with my arches.
I'm in a lot of pain,
and I just don't know what's causing it.
Okay, so this is the classic thing
that we see all the time.
When yo have arch pain, everyone deals with this
from time to time.
We all have either high arch,
flat arch, normal regular arch.
This can be one of things that we really wanna watch.
So what I always tell people to do is when they're at home,
you can have a water basin here, put a little water in it,
and if you just step your foot in that,
and then you place it on the cardboard,
we'll actually see the exact arch type that she has.
And we'll all see this when we go to the pools
with friends, and we're walking around,
and we're comparing each other's feet.
In her case, she has a higher type of arch.
So every step she takes, it's a lot higher
than just say a regular arch.
A flatter soled shoe for a high arched person, like this,
this is cork, this is leather, these are all very flat.
You know, it's not really going to support
the type of arch that you have,
as we just proved with this water test.
So you can go to any drug store that you have,
and anything with a good solid arch support
is great for you.
Any time you have something like this,
a custom version that you would go to your local podiatrist
is the best thing.
Anything custom is usually better.
And that-- And buy shoes with arches.
Correct, yes. Like even high heeled shoes,
some of them are built with arches.
Just a better shoe that has a good arch,
like Rachael said, is very good too.
So that's what you do.
Well Joan has the flip-flops too,
what's your foot issue?
I'm prone to athlete's foot,
and I wanna know lie what's causing it,
and what are some ways that I can deal with it at home?
Oh good one, yeah. Very fair, yeah.
Look, everyone probably has athlete's foot in their life.
Athlete's foot is actually a fungus,
so you wanna kill that fungus
for a variety of different reasons,
but when you have fungus, it sometimes can be dry,
cracked, and it can become painful, and itchy,
which is really annoying.
So what we wanna do is some at-home tips and treatments.
You can actually use apple cider vinegar,
and if you put that in a little bit of water,
what you'll do is soak your feet
for about 15 minutes per day,
and that will really help kill the fungus.
I mean, nothing's going to definitely take over
what a doctor's going to prescribe you.
That will cure the fungus a lot faster.
But really what you wanna watch for
is like a warm moist environment
when you're in your sneakers, or at the gym.
You just wanna make sure-- That's what they say,
it's athlete's foot because you get it at the gym, right?
Sometimes you can get it there.
It's really sweaty socks, sweaty shoes,
so you wanna make sure you're not in those
for long periods of time.
And if you do, if you do have a sweatier type of foot,
you can wear baby power, put a little in your shoes,
and that will really wick up that moisture.
That's a good, that's simple advice,
that's fair. It's pretty simple.
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Thank you, Doctor Brad.
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