Comments on: Another podiatrist rant http://www.barefootjosh.com/?p=296 The bare foot is the best running coach money can't buy Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:04:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: sonya http://www.barefootjosh.com/?p=296&cpage=1#comment-273 sonya Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:12:32 +0000 http://www.barefootjosh.com/?p=296#comment-273 @ac -So did the orthotics help the knee pain? If not you probably should have seem a podiatrist, since the philosophy of orthotics differs largely between orthopedic doc and podiatrists. @ac -So did the orthotics help the knee pain? If not you probably should have seem a podiatrist, since the philosophy of orthotics differs largely between orthopedic doc and podiatrists.

]]> By: Barefoot Josh http://www.barefootjosh.com/?p=296&cpage=1#comment-269 Barefoot Josh Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:49:09 +0000 http://www.barefootjosh.com/?p=296#comment-269 Well that's interesting. I wonder if a podiatrist would assume Barefoot Ted's feet are flat. I don't want to be all I-don't-understand-the-science-therefore-it's-not-true, but, well, how does flattening out the foot help the knees? One of these days I'm going to have to meet a podiatrist and ask. Well that’s interesting. I wonder if a podiatrist would assume Barefoot Ted’s feet are flat.

I don’t want to be all I-don’t-understand-the-science-therefore-it’s-not-true, but, well, how does flattening out the foot help the knees?

One of these days I’m going to have to meet a podiatrist and ask.

]]> By: ac http://www.barefootjosh.com/?p=296&cpage=1#comment-267 ac Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:19:42 +0000 http://www.barefootjosh.com/?p=296#comment-267 The perfect foot is perfectly flat. A few years ago I went to a "sports medicine" place and was seen by an orthopedic surgeon for my bad knees. He prescribed $500 custom orthotics. I paid it. I just wanted to run again. I laid flat on a table on my stomach, with my feet hanging off in the "relaxed position". They made casts of my relaxed feet, and then made these fancy orthotics from the casts. They were kind of a wedge, almost an 1" high in the heel, tapering to a thin foam under the toes. The bottom of each orthotic wedge was perfectly flat, and the top a perfect mold of my foot. I guess the idea was the orthotics filled in the gap between my imperfect feet and the perfect flat floor. So I guess if my feet had been perfectly flat, then no orthotics would be required at all. No correction means perfection! So the the perfect foot is perfectly flat. The perfect foot is perfectly flat.
A few years ago I went to a “sports medicine” place and was seen by an orthopedic surgeon for my bad knees.
He prescribed $500 custom orthotics. I paid it. I just wanted to run again.
I laid flat on a table on my stomach, with my feet hanging off in the “relaxed position”. They made casts of my relaxed feet, and then made these fancy orthotics from the casts. They were kind of a wedge, almost an 1″ high in the heel, tapering to a thin foam under the toes. The bottom of each orthotic wedge was perfectly flat, and the top a perfect mold of my foot. I guess the idea was the orthotics filled in the gap between my imperfect feet and the perfect flat floor.

So I guess if my feet had been perfectly flat, then no orthotics would be required at all. No correction means perfection!

So the the perfect foot is perfectly flat.

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