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Silent Warnings

Unlike high blood pressure, your musculoskeletal system will start giving you warning signals when your joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles need attention.  The problem is that you are unfamiliar with the signals and what they mean. Initially you may regard them as a small nuisance, a temporary ache,  or just a sign of getting older.  Maybe all the warnings you have right now are  silent - warnings you would be smart to investigate like taking your blood pressure. 

Musculoskeletal Warnings   •   •   •   •   •   •   •   •   •

Uneven wear pattern on the bottom of your shoes - Heavier wear toward the inside or outside of the heel or forefoot. Morton's Foot Syndrome - A deeper web space between the first and second toe compared to the second and third or a longer appearing second toe.  Elevated First Metatarsal - The first metatarsal and big toe is not significantly weight bearing when you do a knee bend while making sure your knees travel over the top of your feet. Calluses - Thickened often yellowish skin on your feet.  Posture - Head forward, forward leaning, sunken posture.

High blood pressure is a silent killer.  Chronic pain from musculoskeletal dysfunction will kill your vitality and joy.  Don't let it happen to you!

Learn the silent warnings.  Then return here to evaluate yourself

Shoe Wear Pattern

If you discovered that the tires on your car looked like this, you would be concerned because you instinctively know something is wrong.  Wouldn't you naturally become concerned about your safety as a series of questions pop into your mind?

Uneven shoe wear is cause for the same concerns.  Although it doesn't carry the same risk, it can in fact be just as painful and even more costly. 

If you have proper foot mechanics, your shoes should wear evenly and slowly.  If your shoes wear unevenly; if you grind down the sides of your heels; if you wear a hole underneath the second metatarsal (the bone connected to your second toe), or if you wear hardest along the outside edge of  your shoes, your posture, foot and body mechanics are in need of repair.  

Just as with your car - if you ignore it, the price will just grow steeper as time compounds the problem.

Your shoe wear patterns accurately reveal if you hyperpronate or supinate or do both. It will clearly show if you have a splayed (turned out) or pigeon toed (turned in) gait, or if you favor one leg over the other.  Bottom line, your shoes will show if your postural foundation is unstable which impacts your entire body. If your shoe wear is uneven, even by a small amount, you are advised to check what it means.    Check Now

Morton's Foot Syndrome

Morton's Foot is quick to recognize by its deeper first web-space and/or a longer appearing second toe.  If this describes your feet, you have Morton's Foot Syndrome, sometimes called Morton's Toe, which means you are predisposed to musculoskeletal dysfunction and pain.

Dr. Dudley J. Morton, DPM, identified Morton's foot syndrome over 70 years ago.  In about 10% of the population he observed that the first metatarsal (the foot bone that connects to the big toe) was frequently a little too short relative to the second metatarsal bone. He could clearly see that this foot problem  changed the gait in a way that could cause pain and dysfunction elsewhere in the body.  He even invented a special insole (Morton's extension) to help improve the gait, but because he missed a very important aspect of this foot structure, his invention was not effective. 

The real problem, however, is that the first metatarsal is slightly elevated and slightly rotated so it cannot support your foot properly.  As it turns out everyone who has Morton's Foot also has an elevated first metatarsal.  If you have this foot structure you hyperpronate, and you should check how easily it can be corrected with Posture Control Insoles®.   To determine which Posture Control Insoles® to get takes just a couple of minutes.  Check Now

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Elevated First Metatarsal

If you have an elevated first metatarsal, it means that your first metatarsal and big toe are not doing their job.  Your big toe is supposed to carry most of your weight as you move over the forefoot on your way to a strong push off.  But, your second metatarsal is doing the work instead.  Since your first metatarsals do not properly support your weight, your feet become unstable.  The foundation for your entire body becomes as wobbly as being on ice skates (Analogy by Dr. Janet Travell). 

So, now you can't stand, walk and run without extra effort. Every step takes a toll on your body and posture - not necessarily so much that you feel it now, but the accumulation of millions and millions of improperly aligned steps wears your joints and tires your muscles and eventually shows up as dysfunction and pain. Even if you consciously try to maintain good posture, your feet are not structurally capable of supporting your effort. Your body’s compensating response may be hyperpronation or supination (ankles rolling in or out).

You don't have to have a Morton's Foot to be at risk of poor posture and its implications for pain. But, if you do have Morton's Foot, you can be certain you are at risk. Discovering how simple it is to correct your foot mechanics for better posture and health is a good reason to investigate further.  Checking if you have an elevated first metatarsal is simple.
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Calluses

Calluses are not always a silent warning because they can become quite painful.  They are not a natural consequence of being on your feet all day. They are not a natural consequence of wearing shoes all day.  You would more likely develop calluses if you spent a lot of time walking barefoot because calluses are the body's natural way of protecting your feet against abrasion. Shoes should protect your feet from abrasion so you should not have calluses. 

Incorrect foot mechanics can cause  excessive pressure, rubbing and twisting inside your shoes that will result in calluses.  They are caused by consistent and excessive friction between your feet and your shoe insole and shoe upper.  Calluses indicate that your feet and your shoes do not get along.  Shoes most often get the blame, but the fact is that your foot mechanics may be the major problem.  If you take care of your foot problem, you'll get along better with all your shoes.  

Wouldn't it be a relief not to have to soak and remove ugly calluses on a regular basis.  If you remove them and they come back you know for sure your foot and body mechanics are off.  With Posture Control Insoles, it doesn't take much to avoid callus re-formation.  Find out which Posture Control Insoles® would work best.  Check Now

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Posture

Rummage through candid photos of yourself until you find a couple of full height profile pictures. Do you have a nice erect posture or do you look hunched forward? If you drew a straight line from right in front of the bump on your ankle to the center of your ear, does it bisect your knee, hips and shoulders? If not, your posture is off. Find a couple of frontal pictures of you from below the hips to your head. If you drew horizontal lines across your hips and your shoulders are they level and parallel? Is your head straight or leaning to one side?

If you don’t have any pictures, ask someone to snap a couple of full height pictures of you from the front, back and side. Before the pictures are taken, do a couple of knee bends and stand as relaxed as you can while looking straight forward.

Your posture is your window to your overall health.  It can be improved more easily than you think.  Check Now

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Preventing Pain

Too many people ignore their “little aches and pains”. If they do pay attention, they often medicate away their pain rather than seeking an ultimate and natural solution to the root problems. This can quickly become expensive, financially as well as in terms of lost freedom and reduced quality of life.

Too many people completely ignore their feet and allow callused, flaking dry skin, nail fungus, burst blood vessels and deformed toes to go untreated.  Most people take better care of their cars than their feet. Some people can barely get to work and survive a day because of all the pain that originates from not caring for their feet. Gradually their quality of life simply walks away from them — no more leisurely shopping, no more golf, no playing with the grandkids and no more hikes in the woods — just because they ignored those "little aches and pains".

Unfortunately, as far as your feet and their influence on your posture goes, the fact that you're not having pain right now does not automatically mean that “all systems are OK”.  Your feet are the foundation for your body and your structural health. Please don't ignore them! 

"What goes around comes around"

"What you dish out is what you get"

That applies to your feet too.
 

You get a dental check-up every year!

Click here to
check your foot mechanics and posture.

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Getting Started

The ordering process is simple.  Two quick evaluations will tell you exactly what Posture Control Insoles® to buy. 

• Check your shoe wear pattern

 
• Check your foot mechanics

We'll show you exactly how.  Click to proceed with your "2 minute evaluation".  

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Achilles Pain | Arch Pain | Arthritis | Bad Posture | Bunions | Flat Feet | Headaches | Heel Pain | Hip Pain | Joint Pain | Knee Pain
Low-Back Pain | Metatarsalgia| Morton's Neuroma | Muscle Cramps | Neck Pain | Nerve Compression & Entrapment | Pregnancy
Plantar Fasciitis | Reduced Lung Volume | Runner's Knee | Sciatica | Scoliosis & Kyphosis | Shin Splints | Shoulder Pain
SI Joint Pain | Tender Calf Muscles | Tight IT Bands | TMJ & Clicking Jaw | Upper-Back Pain | Weak Ankles

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