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- I am ready.
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Shrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
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- Five big mistakes people make with foot pain.
And I've made, I think, all of these, Brad,
so I'm like an expert on it. - Well, yeah, I think
I've made six, but we won't talk about that sixth one.
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All right, so number one, let's get right into it, Brad.
- Sure.
- One, you don't keep your calluses shaved or under control.
- Your-- - Calluses, foot calluses.
- Oh, on the bottom of your feet?
- Yeah, right.
What were you thinking I was--
- Well, yeah, this is probably one of those,
if you're like 40 and over, 50 and over kind of a thing.
Years of age.
- Well, it could depend.
When I used to be, our cross country coach,
when I was younger, talked about very,
spent time and discussed managing calluses.
- Oh, really? - Yep.
Because my feet were starting to hurt
and I'm like, am I just getting old?
Is this part of life?
- You mean, just sitting around?
- No, and it turned out to be the calluses.
As soon as I shaved down the calluses--
- Just when you're walking?
- Yeah, yeah.
They were getting sore underneath the calluses.
- Well, yeah, look at the size of that callus.
Holy cow.
And that's after you've been working on it, huh.
- So, I tried a lot of different products
and until I came across this thing.
So, I have to admit, I'm freakishly obsessed with this.
- Yeah, he likes it.
- I do, it's like I have a fetish with this thing, you know.
- [Brad] And there's a good reason why.
- Yeah, there's a good reason.
It really works well.
It's the microplane foot file
and it's very inexpensive but it works very well.
Very good reviews.
I think it had thousands of reviews.
- It does work well.
- So, if you don't wanna get grossed out...
- Fast forward. - Skip, fast forward
for about 30 seconds.
- Wait 'til you see this, if you want to.
- But, yeah, I'm gonna go like this
and this thing is just like--
- [Brad] And you don't even have to apply
hardly any pressure, do you Bob?
Look at that, it looks like major dandruff coming off of,
and he probably could have piled that up a half inch thick--
- Yeah, I could have kept going
but I will spare the audience with the rest of it
but man, I love it.
- I know.
Last time we did one, it was about a year or two ago,
we showed that and there was a number of people,
it had good reviews.
- Yeah, yeah, I feel really good on mentioning that.
Number two, Brad, letting your shoes get too worn.
Brad and I see this all the time in our patients.
So, like, they'll have flat feet, the shoe gets worn
and they really make your feet flat then.
- It just exacerbates the whole problem.
- Right, so, you wanna show the bottom?
I brought a pair of mine that are actually,
I was to the point where I thought they were too worn.
- And we'll show you, here's a new shoe.
If you look at the bottom, you can see,
this is nice because it's nice and green
and then you can see the white hollow spots in here
and nice new shoe.
Now, if you look at Bob's,
this your running shoe, Bob?
- [Bob] Yeah, my running shoe.
- Running show and after you ran with it for a week--
(Bob laughs)
I'm just kidding, how many months?
You got a number of months on this one?
- [Bob] Yeah, I got a number of months on.
- Now, if you look at this white line here,
that's the way this used to look
but the black wear surface actually wore so far,
it's made this into this balloon shape
and very clear it's wore out.
Now, if you're a pronator,
you've probably wore out this side of the shoe.
So, looking at the shoe, how it's wore,
can tell a therapist or a doctor
a lot about the mechanics of the foot.
So, it's a good tool to bring in.
- So, it's really kinda like
looking at the tread of your car.
You know, if the tread of your car's going smooth,
it's time to get a new tire.
The things is, too, if the tread
on the bottom of your shoe is wore out,
that also means the insole is just as wore out.
It might even be more wore out,
so that's why it's time to replace your shoe.
Walking with too much heel strike,
that's number three mistake a lot of people make.
So, they're walking along,
I just had a patient yesterday, Brad was doing this.
He goes like this, hits like this.
This is basically, how he is walking.
I'm exaggerating a little bit.
When you hit like this,
you're putting a lot of stress on your foot.
And especially the plantar fascia
and you could make yourself vulnerable to planter fasciitis.
What you want to do, is you actually wanna make sure
you're leaning forward a little bit, taking shorter strides,
and you're trying to hit the forefoot and the heel,
almost simultaneously.
You might hit about 75 or 70% on the heel
and 30% there or maybe 60/40,
you know, break it up like that.
I mean, I start working on this myself
and it really made a big difference.
I really feel like my running, actually,
I try to run more that way.
And if you're doing it this way
and you're doing shorter strides,
it almost feels like you're falling forward, Brad,
because you're taking more stress on the forefoot.
This is something you have to think about.
It's something you have to, again,
shorter strides often helps
and just avoid hyper-extending your knee, too,
when you're hitting on your heel.
- Then you're compounding your situation.
- Okay, number four, number four mistake,
people do not keep their heel cord
and their toes stretched out.
So, one stretch we show people,
just before they even get out of bed a lot of times,
is to go ahead and grab the toes like this,
and I'm gonna stretch them,
but I can also stretch the heel at the same time.
So, I'm stretching the heel cord at the same time.
This is all you need to do.
You can also do the wall stretch
or anything else like you wanna do it,
but you gotta keep that heel cord,
if this all gets tight,
the forces are gonna be translated
to the bottom of your foot and it's gonna suffer.
- Yep, so yeah, keep things stretched out.
- Now, number five, this is a mistake people make,
they don't baby their feet with massage.
You know, I mean, seriously,
if you're starting to have foot problems,
it's so much more helpful
if you can do some massage to there.
Now, you can do your own handheld, use your own hands, but--
- Doesn't your wife massage your feet anymore?
- No, no, no, Brad, it doesn't happen.
That wasn't even in the dating phase, that didn't happen.
(Brad laughs)
No, and I don't really like doing it myself, either.
You just saw what happened.
- Well, yeah, you just wanna get the grinder on there.
- Yeah, that's right,
but, RENPHO makes a couple great massagers.
They've got a handheld massager.
This is great because you can use it
on any part of the body
but it works well on the feet, too.
Oh.
And Brad's gonna go ahead
and show the RENPHO foot massager machine there,
that's specific for that.
That's like a bit of heaven, isn't it.
- Yeah, this is less work than that
and you can read a book, watch TV,
even take a little nap with this.
It's on a timer, it heats up a little bit.
You can control the intensity, compression.
It's really the whole works.
- If you want to give somebody a gift, I mean,
have we found anybody yet that hasn't loved it?
I mean, seriously.
I mean, we've had people that have tried it, as patients,
and they're going, "Well, I'm gonna get one of these."
- I mean, if you've got really sensitive feet
or some sores on your feet,
then you're not a candidate for it
but a normal foot--
- Helped a couple people with neuropathy,
so far, that I was surprised.
It helped our office manager.
She's got neuropathy
and she said it definitely made a difference,
so Joanie--
- You said her name.
- Oh well, I can say Joanie, they don't know her last name.
- You never know.
- Yeah, that's right.
They're gonna track her down. - Confidentiality.
Okay, next one.
- All right, that's it, Brad.
That's five.
- Oh, I'm gonna keep my feet in here for a while,
til the next video.
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