1) To improve the health of your feet, standing in Balance is the most important thing to start with. Make sure you’re not standing with the weight in the front of your feet – feet weren’t designed to bear so much weight on those tiny bones. Instead, stand with 90% of your weight in your heels.
2) Secondly, make sure that your ankles are not pronating (dropping in towards the center of your body, or midline). I teach an exercise in my “Reshape Your Feet” workshops called the “foot scoop” that can help you reshape your feet more like those of Balanced people. These people often walk barefoot or in flip-flops carrying heavy loads, and their feet look amazingly healthy and youthful even in old age, and they are functional.
3) Finally, buy some comfortable shoes, preferably with a low heel and plenty of room in the toe box. The American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons claim that wearing shoes that crowd your toes can worsen bunions. This is important because they also claim that bunions worsen over time, and don’t go away. Is this true? You’d be surprised how much you can change your feet by improving your alignment.
These days, my knees are doing much better. I still enjoy hiking, and I haven’t needed any surgeries. I attribute this to practicing Balanced standing, the “foot scoops”, and wearing healthy shoes.
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