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That's funny. Just took our kid to the podiatrist on Thursday for the same thing. If you're willing to come up to NCC, let me know and I'll give you the doctor's info.

i don't trust podiatrists at all. I got into a big argument with a podiatrist I used to go to high school with about walking barefoot about 5 years ago. I was way ahead of the curve on the whole barefoot running thing (the magic of the internet for allowing weirdos to connect with other weirdos). this podiatrist dude told me I was out of my mind, that i was going to ruin my feet and that the podiatry community was in complete agreement that barefoot was bad.

Therefore, i am very suspicious of podiatrists. they need to speak out more strongly against women's shoes rather than just standing by and making money off of corns and bunions, caused entirely by fashion, to have some credibility with me. i guess they also do good by keeping an eye on diabetics' feet to make sure they're not getting rotted. But I feel podiatrists in general are part of some industrial-footwear complex designed to hurt us; kind of like footbinding supervisors in ancient china.

I feel pretty strongly about barefootedness,and for many years had my kids go barefoot in the neighborhood. i believe shoes are one of the largest problems in modern society. i hate tom's shoes for shoeing the unshoed. i hate shoes.

is it really a foot problem or is it something body related?

Maybe a sports medicine doctor?

hope Im not offending anyone by railing against the podiatric medical community.

if your feet feel better when you get home and take off your shoes, then something is very very wrong.

actually yes, I am. can you pm me?

squat, you're right that podiatrists are not doing us all a favor.

I think that 80% of people have bad posture.

You don't want to walk hard on your heels... it causes reverberation throughout the body.

Walk in a light springy manner with elan.

Being fat and walking with a bad posture is a sure way to induce back pain and other body aches.

kid running has a foot turned inward...Reminds me of me..

ROFLMAO!!! :)

Bless you, Brian.

Scaredy,

Could not agree more with you WRT not wearing shoes, even though I wouldn't run without them.

And high heels? Criminal.

yeah and you know why we have bad posture? weak muscles! and you know what will help? Lifting heavy weights!

barefoot running is how we are designed.

seriously i stand up better from squatting.

i had some genuine alden shell cordovan shoes i paid 300 for that now go for 5 or 600 i had to sell on ebay a few years back because i revolted against shoes.

Had to look up "Alden Shell Cordovan" shoes to see what these gold-lined shoes must look like. Holy cow, you're not kidding about the price. Hope you got good $$$ for them.

paid about 300 in 1996. had them restored by alden for 100. sold for 225 in mid 2000's.

shell cordovan is a beautiful material, but once i started barefooting, my feet wold not go in the shoe. birkenstock shoes. super wide.

the foot truly is an amazing thing. it is odd how desensitized and damp and blistered we make it in little foot coffins; imagine if we beleived hands had to be similarly "protected". the foot needs to operate like a hand, room, flexion, ground feel. the average shoe makes it into a club.

on the other hand, shell cordovan shoes may last 30 or 40 years. that was my plan when i bought them. but it is difficult to predict future needs. how could i have known in 1996 that i would become anti-shoe? I was very pro-shoe in 96.

Just make sure not to become anti-pants.

goddamn pants. don't get me started.

scaredy, do you wear birkenstocks into the courtroom and the Big House (to see your "clients"), and if so, do you wear socks with them?

Just wondering .... ;=D