Medical training is, by necessity, obsessed with crises: strokes, sepsis, heart attacks, cancers. Doctors race to manage the emergencies that can kill you today. But in that rush, they often ignore the slow, cumulative forces that shape how your body feels. Charlotte Grinberg, a primary care doctor who has written several pieces for The Free Press, will…
Your Back Hurts? Your Feet May Be the Problem.
When I sit at the edge of a bed and listen to someone in their 70s say, ‘I can’t stand long enough to cook anymore,’ it gets harder and harder to accept that this is simply fate. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)
Look at your bare foot. Trace it on a piece of paper. Now place your favorite shoe over that outline. Once you see how much of your own foot lives outside the outline of your shoe, you can’t unsee it.
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