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- Yeah, greetings. We're talking about foot pain.
I interrupted Bob, what were you gonna say?
- Go for it.
- Okay. If you have pain in your foot
right where this green dot is, or in this area
we've got some really useful, helpful
tips that's gonna help you clear it out.
- We're gonna show you how to get rid of it.
- How to get rid of it. Bob and-
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- All right, so we're gonna talk about
Martin's neuroma, foot pain in this area.
I'm really interested in this, Bob
because I have Morton's neuroma right there.
- So it can also occur right here, right.
- Closer to the big toe.
- Right, right.
- But it's on the bottom of foot.
It happens with weight bearing.
When you walk, there's a nerve bundle in that area.
And what's happening,
the nerve bundle's getting-
- Thickened.
- Thickened, and it gets pressure on it as a result.
And it becomes,
- Causes pain, numbness, stinging
- Uh-huh.
- Or it feels like something's in your shoe.
- Right. Like you got a rock in there.
- Or your sock is folded up.
- Yep. And I'm telling you, it can get very painful.
It's not fun.
- I'll stop you for walking.
- Yep. But the good news is,
there's some easy ways to correct it.
And you don't have to go
and buy a bunch of medication.
- If you're willing to. (laughs)
- All right. The first thing is, and before we go farther,
we got this information from a doctor who
specializes in getting rid of this.
Dr. McClanahan.
Yeah, it's, it's a mouthful.
He actually lives in Oregon.
- Right.
- And he has a clinic that he works with people.
- Very knowledgeable.
- Yep. So his biggest thing that he will not work with
patients if they're not willing to-
- Change your shoe wear.
- Right. There's three aspects of footwear that must
be changed because these mechanical or physical shapes
are really irritating and making the problem worse.
- There between three and four.
- Right
- Or two and three.
- So, the first aspect should we talk about? The heel.
- Heel, right.
- So we got two shoes here,
go ahead Bob.
- The heel causes the foot to slide down.
- Right.
So if you have an elevated heel,
is higher than the fore foot, you get a downhill slant
and your foot has a tendency to slide forward.
And that's very obvious if you wear high heels.
- Right
- That's extreme. But even a regular running
or walking shoe, what you need is-
- Would you look at the heel on that?
- Yeah. And this is not even,
there are much bigger than this in other shoes.
This is a zero drop shoe.
In other words-
- Minimalist.
- Yep. The heel height and the toe height
of the sole are the same.
- The absolute same.
- That's how it's zero drop.
It's a minimalist, so there is not much there.
- Right.
- So that whole idea of-
- Flexibility.
- Support is not always good.
So the heel here, much smaller here.
- Get rid of the heel.
- Yep. So we gotta get rid of the heel.
So much for that.
- Number two, the toe box, right?
- Yeah, the toe box.
So we're talking about the fore foot that your foot
fits into, that's the toe box.
- See how that goes up?
- Yep. So we got a pointy to toe box here.
And this type of shoe has got a wide,
it's wider here where your MTP joints are.
- That's why it's so wide up here.
- Yep. And it does not come to this point.
It kinda wraps around. And this is the natural curve.
- Shape of the foot.
- Shape of the foot, so your foot fits
in there without being-
- And your toes fit there.
- Yeah, your toes can wiggle.
And when you wear these, you can feel the difference.
Your toes have room to breathe, room to move, so to speak.
- Now the third thing is the toe spring.
- Ah. This is interesting, this is one thing
I have not heard of until Dr. McClellan brought it up.
And that is, if you look at this, arch of the toe
you see the, the gap here, how your toe goes up.
And this is actually more level or flat to the ground.
And it's very easy to flatten out.
- Right.
- This, there's actually resistance.
- Right.
- That causes stress on the-
- On the nerve.
- On the nerves.
- Stresses the nerve.
- Right.
So when you work with him, Dr. McClellan,
he says get rid of those two things.
Get rid of this.
- It's for fashion.
- Yep. It's all fashion.
And it's not helping.
So it's a issue because people spend big dollars
on shoes that look good
and supposedly are healthy for your feet,
but they're not.
- So let's talk, what's the last thing you tried Ben?
- Okay, oh!
- Toe spreaders.
- We'll be back in a minute.
- Yeah.
(both laughing)
- Okay. So we've already bought the correct shoes,
we got the wide to box, et cetera.
There's one more thing that can be helpful,
particularly if you notice your toes
are starting to overlap with each other
- Squeeze together.
- Which I'm having this toe, and this toe are
starting to overlap, which happens to be
in the same area when having the pain.
- Right. Not surprised.
- It all makes sense.
- Yeah.
- So this is what, this is a toe spreader that can be used.
- It's called Correct Toes.
- Correcttoes.com, is where you get 'em,
through Dr. McClellan's site.
- Right.
- They're good quality, they're gonna last a long time.
And these are actually made for walking or running.
- You can wear them.
- Yep. There are toe spreaders that,
they'll spread your toes but they're,
you can see they look very big.
We actually have a pair back there.
- Yoga Toes.
- Yep. But you cannot walk or run with those
with your shoe on.
- Right.
- And you can see they're just too big and clumsy.
- You did trim this right, Ben.
- Yes. So when you put these on, you need to,
you'll feel, there'll be like,
"Oh, it kind of hurts."
Mine hurt on my big toe.
So you, you take wherever it hurts,
and you take a pair of scissors and you trim it.
So you custom trim it,
once you do it once, you're done
you don't have to do it again.
You can see how it looks on my toes.
- They keep the toes spread.
- Yep, toes spread.
That's how it looks on the bottom.
That's how it looks on the top.
They're low profile.
So again, you can wear 'em in your shoes.
- So how's your nerve doing?
- My nerve, it's doing pretty good.
You know, there's certain times that,
I gotta be honest with you,
with my zero drop shoes in the front,
I have to get zero drop shoes that have
a little more cushion.
- Right.
- Just because my Morton's neuroma.
- Makes sense.
- Yeah. And there's some shoes that I have that...
dress shoes. - Yeah.
- If they got leather soles, don't worry.
That's just a problem you have to put up with it.
But yeah, there we go, there's the toe spreaders.
They work very nice.
- Get rid of your Martin's neuroma.
- Yep, that Martin's neuroma's an issue.
Good luck with it.
- Say goodbye.
- And it's gonna be helpful.