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Dr. Courtney Conley

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“We're just getting started. I'll find something else. And then you want to look at toe dexterity. So, in other words, can you isolate your toes? So can you lift just your big toe on the right? Good. And then on the left.”
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“Okay, so that's why the foot is a window to mechanics because you can see loads, abarent loads, right? Why is this forming here? So, you know, one of the first things I want to look at is how much range of motion the big, it's all about the big toe. When we're walking, we put a lot of loads and force that go through the big toe when we walk. You should have about 40 to 45 degrees to walk out of that big toe. So here's Eddie. Here's 45 degrees. Up. So, yes. So, what I want to see is how much range of motion. Can you see how he's off the ground though? I want the ball of the big toe on the ground. A good amount of range.”
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“Know when you're looking at this foot here, you can start to see this little bump here. You can start to see bumps on the top of the big toe. And the diagnosis is a halix limitus or a halix rigidus. And basically what that means is that you have formed arthritis on the top of the toe. So prevents you from getting that full range of motion that we need when we walk and run. If the bump goes out to the side That's what we call Hallex Valgus. That's bunion.”
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“I want people to start thinking about their feet because I think there's such implications for their health. And I wanted to make it easy because when we think about all the things we need to do to stay healthy, it's like I have to strength train. I have to, you know, eat this. I need to VO2 max. I need my cardio respiratory fitness. There's a lot. So I wanted to make it easy. So first, one of the things that is in there are toe strengtheners.”
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“Yes, I think also, you know, it was interesting. I was working at the running event in Austin, Texas, and I was teaching there. And so a lot of the shoe stores were there. And one of the bigger shoe stores had said that the majority of their clients now are actually walkers and not runners. And I thought that was pretty interesting. And I'm thinking to myself Wonder why that is. Like, are more people reverting to walking because they're getting injured when they're running They, you know, I'm making all these conclusions in my head. I'm like, well, is it because we're going in the wrong direction with footwear? Because we're creating the shoe that is basically doing the work for us and it feels so good and, you know, people aren't putting the work in anymore. I don't know, but I'm certainly going to do my best to change that.”
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“You know When you look at step counts, if that was going to be our baseline. nine thousand eight hundred steps per day can reduce the risks of dementia. But what I think is the cool part with that is three thousand eight hundred. You get fifty percent of the maximal benefit. So If you were to, let's just call it four thousand. Shoot for four thousand steps. You're going to get a benefit. A fifty percent benefit. In some of my favorite research on looking at that population with walking as relationship walking, there's really cool studies looking at walking in groups for the elderly population and how that has a social connection. And it improves their emotional health and it combats loneliness and feelings of isolation. And that is the beauty of a walk.”
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“I think that it's more about movement. I don't know of standing in one place is any better than sitting in one place other than when you're standing you can actually like you know move around and you know make it more active standing but it is a matter of taking movement breaks like that's I call them you know movement snacks all of us spend a lot of time either sitting all day long or you know standing at our desks If we were to take microwalks, a five minute walk a couple times a day the system stays moving, you're staying active in your slowly, you know, inching up that step count that we know is so important for not only physical health but emotional and mental health. That's what I like about it.”
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“That's right Yeah, there's carbon in there. Know what another fun fact is, though. Certain piometrics, so plyometric is training the spring of the body, so think like jumping. There's research that will show you that plyometrics also increase capacity in running by two to four percent. So my conversation I have with my patients is, listen, what if we stacked therapies, right? What if you did piometric work? Jumping Know once or twice a week. And we worked on your strength, and I had you in these shoes the majority of the time. And then on race day, you want to throw that shoe on? It's like you're running, you're like a running ferry, you're like running and things look beautiful and everything is, you know, because you have a strong body on top of the shoe. But if you put a weak body in a weak foot in that shoe. You gotta earn your rate.”
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“In you never let your foot get stronger. It's just a matter of time. You're going to say my hamstring, my foot, my this, my that, and it's like that's why the conversation has to happen is this is the shoe that you're going to get stronger in. Spend time in your training shoe, and then that's your speed day. That's your race day. So it's having the shoe spectrum knowing when to dance along the spectrum.”
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“Yes. So if I had that shoe on this table and I went like this to the front of the shoe, it would literally rock her for me. So it facilitates the rocker of the foot. Sounds great. You put that on. You're like, man, this is great. I can fly. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. So there is research that shows when you put your foot in a position with toespring, you will weaken the intrinsic muscles of the foot. I'm not saying Don't have race day and wear that shoe, right? You get the research will tell you two to four percent running economy. People run faster because the shoe has the technology to facilitate gait. But if you train in that. All the time.”
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“Here's the super shoe, right? So here's this shoe, right? And here's your super shoe over here. When you look at that shoe, There's certain characteristics to that shoe that you definitely do not see in this shoe, one of them being the toe spring. So see how it kind of lips on the front of the shoe?”
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“It depends on what your goals are That is, I think, a great shoe to run on, to run with, right? If you're running on concrete, if you're running on asphalt, you want a little something underneath the foot.”
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“Right where the heel and the toasted in the same plane, but you'll notice the difference between the two shoes is the amount of stack height or the amount of cushion. There's more stuff.”
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“Yes, with an insert, for example. You won't like me Because you'll say, hey, my heel's hurting. Because you haven't done the work. It's, hey, let's do these foot exercises. Let's wear this for ten minutes a day. And then people are like, wow, that does feel better. And then it's a transition into wearing this more often. Now, when you have patients that have had a very weak foot or clients that have had a very weak foot with different diagnoses, this is a hard, you know, shoe to walk around in for extended periods of time. So that's when we'll talk about footwear that still puts the foot in a wide position, wide toe box. I love this shoe. And I also like the mesh upper because the toes can expand in here. I still have zero drops.”
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“That is ultra running. Let's talk about the things you want to look for in a functional shoe. My non-negotiable is the wide toe box. The toes have to be able to splay. When you think of all the diagnoses that we talked about, bunions, neuromas, hammer toes, when the forefoot can splay, the foot's going to function better. So that's number one. Number two is having the heel and the toe in the same plane. In number three is having a shoe that is thin and flexible. When you wear this type of footwear, I call this a workhorse Because there is more loads going through all of your tissues, through your bones, through your ligaments, through your tendons, through your muscles. So your foot gets stronger when you wear this type of footwear. There's research on that. Now you have to earn your right.”
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“I don't know if acute injury but a weakening of tissue? Yes. Because I live in Colorado now, so I don't have that, there's not too many women in Colorado that are wearing heels. However, when I go to New York City, it's a different conversation, different environment. So, you know, I have to say I have to use the, that is not the position that you want to keep your foot in. It's changing the structure of your tissues, changing the pressures in the foot. Not to mention. That those are, I don't care what anybody says. That's not comfortable to walk around in. People will be like, oh, I'm really comfortable in heels. I'm like, are you really though?”
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“Well It doesn't look like a foot. Your foot in that position is not the position it is supposed to be in. Now, with that being said. There is a time and a place. You know, I don't think I'm going to win the Battle of You need to wear functional footwear 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Time in those shoes should be limited Just like with, you know. Other things it's Moderation”
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“Why do we need to pay attention to our foot strength? Is it just because we want to prevent falls when we're 70? This is the why. Because we want to have healthy feet, strong feet, so you can say, hey, I want to go play a soccer game and I don't want to worry about having planar fasciitis in my 30s.”
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“When I see I hear very similar stories with that diagnosis, there always seems to be some impetus of I added load too fast too soon. I went on a longer hike. This is one of my favorites. I went barefoot during COVID around my house and everybody wanted to blame the fact that, you know, don't ever go barefoot. And I was like, maybe it's just because your foot was weak and you weren't ready to handle these loads. You add loads too fast too soon. In the foot just says, you know what? You weren't ready to give me this amount of load this quickly. And that's, you know, when you asked me earlier about”
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“Pain in the heel, yes. And they've played around with, you know, the terminology being at plantar fasciitis, so more of an acute issue versus plantar fasciopathy, because oftentimes these cases will turn into having heel pain for very long periods of time. So then you have to treat it differently. You don't treat something that's acute the same as you would treat something that's chronic. And so you have to look at how can I build the resiliency to the foot?”
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“Stephen, they will come in with 20 pairs of orthotics, 20 pairs of inserts. They've tried this one, they've tried that one, they've tried different shoes, higher heel to toe drops, more cushion, and I'm sitting there going, we're missing the boat here. Let's have the and conversation. One of the muscles that is a good predictor of having heel pain is it runs parallel to the planar fascia. So it's flexor digitorum brevis. It basically takes the four toes and presses them down. There's ways you can assess for this. So we'll look at their toe strength and then it almost always correlates with the side that has the heel pain on because it shouldn't be one of those conversations. You're like, man, I wonder where this came from. No, your foot is weak. Your foot is weak. There's a lot of load going through it. And”
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“First line of intervention is that's why you want to change how we're viewing the foot. It's either if your foot hurts, here's an orthos. Or if it hurts worse, good surgery. If you look at the research on plantar fasciitis, okay, so it is being acute. It will tell you that putting an orthosis or something to modify the load underneath the foot can be beneficial. Initially Because you want to offload something that hurts. But if you don't use it, you're going to lose it. So what they're not, the part of the conversation that's being missed is the and conversation. It's where this insert and Strengthen your foot Because the goal should be to have an exit strategy for the insert and get your foot back on the ground. Because I have patience.”
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“Like an ins So watching these guys build this house and they're like coming up on their toes and they have all this, you know, toe range of motion and all this strength and power to their foot. And I'm like, that's what our foot was designed to do, is to be strong, to support. It's like building a house on sand. You have to have a foundation that you can build upon. And it was really cool to see. It really was.”
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“I'm always looking at people's feet because it tells a story. It's like someone's gate, you know, watching someone walk tells a story. You can tell if they just got fired or if they just got promoted, you know. But when you look at someone's foot, I was in Belize and with my mom and daughter. And there were these two guys building a house, a little bit off the beach, barefoot. And I'm looking at their foot, and I'm going, wow, it was wide. It looked thick. It looked flat And I think in our society, if you will, when we think of a flat foot, we think, oh, this is bad news. We better go get an orthotic”
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“Now, if you have someone that's standing in place all day long, right, on concrete, on man made surfaces, there's a time and a place, but my non negotiable At least keep the foot in its functional position which means a wide toe box. So you want to stand on concrete all day long? Fine. Put some cushion underneath your foot. Help yourself out, that's okay. But at least allow those toes to splay so that you can have balance, you can have your foot in a position that can propel you forward.”
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“The cushion conversation is always very interesting. Always a trade off, so there's a lot of popular shoes right now that have a lot of cushion on them. And it's hard to argue when someone goes into a store and they're given this shoe that has this pillow on it and they're standing on it for three seconds and they're like, man, this feels really good The problem with cushion Is that the more stuff? That's between your foot in the ground, the less you feel. So there's a loss of sensory acuity. There's a loss of sensory perception. Remember the foot is, imagine the foot is a sensory organ. And it is because there's thousands of receptors that are, you know, screaming for information to help keep us upright in a biped. So when we start interfering with how that foot feels, you can expect there to be problems.”
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“Yes, it's my biggest, you know, I always tell my daughter, because my daughter, you know, she's like, you make me wear these platypus shoes. And I'm like, listen, it's function over fashion, but I get it. That is my biggest challenge is making is looking for shoes, but they've come a long way. They've come a very, very long way. And I think that we're getting there.”
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“Yes. It's all, you know, I see mostly people come in for football. And I always say to my patients I wish it was just about the I wish I could just look at your foot and say, this is what it is. It's all right here. There's a body that sits on top of the foot. The strength of the hip, for example. which controls the foot. It controls how the foot unlocks. So you have to take that into account when you're looking at patients with foot pain.”
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“If my foot is supposed to sit flat, I have tissues on the back of my leg. That are in a good length tension relationship, I have even pressures across my foot. The second I go and change those things where I go into a heel, you put additional pressure on the front of the foot, you shorten the muscles in the back of the leg, so you start changing the function in the structure of not only the foot but everything that sits above it.”
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“Yes, it's funny. My brother lives in New York City and we have this conversation all the time. And he's like, look at this one. It's wide. I'm like, nope, that's not wide. They're stiff in their, you know, again, changing the structure of the foot. A lot of those shoes also have a little bit of a heel to toe drop. Yes So that was when the heel toe drop. So the heel and the toes sit in one plane. But when you have a higher heel toe drop, it's like you have a mini high huel.”
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“Correct. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And so that's why I think footwear has such a big implication on our function. Men's”
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“So when you put your foot in there, it's doing this. It changes the structure of the foot. It's like the lowest hanging fruit for me is just wear a shoe that fits your foot. Because when it's in that position, It changes the structure. If I walked around with my arm in a sling for ten years, would my bicep get weak?”
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“Remember we talked about the widest part of the foot should be the toes. So when you look at a shoe like that, That is not the widest part. It's tapered. See how the toe box looks like it's tapered?”
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“When I was doing research to have this discussion with you, it was fascinating to me when you look at the statistics of especially with children, with girls, around 70% are wearing shoes that are too narrow.”
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“He still has good days, Ursula has bad days, more good days and bad days, but he said to me, he's like, I can't tell you the last time I cried. He's going to church he's spending time with his dad, you know, in which It's It's not the step count. It's the person behind the step count. And that's why I think this stuff is so powerful. I saw it change my life. I saw what it does to my patients. I mean, it has the capacity to improve not just your physical health, but how you interact with the world.”
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“If you get to 7,500 steps per day, it can reduce the prevalence of the diagnosis, of depression. So that was in the back of my head, I'm like, we just got to keep working towards these numbers. So while we were doing that, we were strengthening his foot. I had him in different footwear and at the end of each week we were also talking about the Three good things Tell me three good things that happened to you this week And in the beginning of treatment, it was a struggle. Stephen, it was a struggle for him to think about good things happening in his life. And I spoke with him probably about a month ago. And his email is like my why. He was like On average he's walking between five and six thousand steps a day.”
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“So that makes it a little more digestible, right? So you're talking to him, you're like, listen, all I need is five minutes. And so we started five minute walks. And for the first couple weeks it was, you know, there were good days, there were bad days, and there still are, but we were starting to build his confidence in movement. We were starting to get him comfortable on his foot again. It was one of those cases where I just, I really enjoyed working with him and watching what had happened because. If you look at step counts, I knew what number I was trying to get to. Because if you look at depression, for example. Five thousand steps a day. can reduce the risk of having symptoms of depression.”
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“I knew I needed to get him outside and start loading his foot. Two years this foot, by the way, when you're walking, four to six times your body weight, it can handle four to six times your body weight when you're walking. You don't load it appropriately. And muscles atrophy. So I told him we had a long, long conversation, and I said, we're going to slowly start to introduce steps And if you think about this, if we were to say add a thousand steps a day. To some people, that might not sound like a lot, but to someone who's taking twenty five hundred steps, that's almost 50% of what they're doing. So we introduced the concept of a microwalk. Which is a five minute walk. So a five minute walk is about five hundred steps. A ten minute walk About a thousand, about a thousand steps”
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“So it was one of the first quadruplets I think I've ever treated. So he has Which why I think pain is so difficult, it's so complicated because now you have this 27-year-old who's seeing his siblings who are at 27, like enjoy their life and doing all these things and he's being told he can take 2,500 steps a day. So he's now living in his father's basement. And he's afraid Go above 2,500 steps. And he used to tell me he's like, I cry a lot. I'm depressed And wouldn't you be if So There wasn't any magic exercise that I was going to give him two years into this. There wasn't any magic or thoughtic or magic shoe he had done all of that. Shame on me if I would have done the same thing. So we had a conversation And I knew I needed to get him outside and I needed to get him walking. That was”
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“You can reduce your risk of all cause mortality by fifteen percent. All cosmetality 15%, that's a big number. For a thousand steps. So I have a story for you. This is a patient of mine, and it just Well, it warms my heart to talk about him because when I saw him he was two years into a diagnosis of heal pain. 27 years old So he had gone to see a bunch of people, and the last doctor that he had seen told him to limit his step count to twenty five hundred steps a day. To rest, to rest the foot. Now, this is chronic pain now. We're not talking acute heel pain. We are two years into this song and dance. And he's being told at twenty seven years old to take twenty five hundred steps a day So he comes into my office, we're talking about all this, and he's also a quadruplet.”
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“Yes, it's, I always say it's the most underrated, underutilized, easily accessible activity that most of us are not doing If you think about, if you look at the research on average step count that most people globally are taking, it's about forty-five to forty nine hundred. Which means that there's a lot of us that are taking less than that. So, when I'm working with my patients, we always look at baseline numbers. What's your baseline? So for example if you had a person who was walking twenty five hundred steps a day. I mean some of us would be like, wow, that's not a lot. But for a lot of us, it is. If you were to walk an additional five hundred steps in a day, your baseline's 2,500. You can reduce your risk of cardiovascular mortality by seven percent. Here's a bigger If you have a thousand step increase,”
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“It changed my life when you're You know, I think whenever we have a passion, there's always this quest personally behind it And so I saw What it did for me and then over the past twenty years being able to see what it has done for my patients is why I'm even more heart pressed to get this information out there.”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can't do that. And because movement was a lifeline for me, it was a mode of survival. There were days where, you know, I was a dancer. I had all of the diagnoses we just talked about, bunions and aromas, heel pain. And when you tag on day after day of not being able to walk and not being able to move, you can go to some pretty dark places. And so I just, it was a mission of mine to figure this out and figure out how I can personally be able to continue to move, but then also be able to hopefully help other people.”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I was younger, I was a dancer. I was a ballet dancer, and then I shifted gears into being a runner and then a triathlete. And I didn't know at the time why movement was a necessity for me. You know, I certainly wasn't thinking, oh, you know, I need to do this because of longevity or because I'm going to have a better VO2 max. And now in hindsight, when I think about it, it was a means of survival. Movement was survival for me. And in my teens and into my twenties, you know, I had some personal demons that I fought and The one thing that was consistent that I felt I could control was making sure that I stayed moving. And the problem is when you have foot pain.”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'm a chiropractor by nature. I went to chiropractic school. I knew that I wanted to get into some type of medicine that was proactive, you know, not reactive. I didn't quite have interest in surgeries or pharmaceuticals. Movement has always been a very big part of my life. And so I knew I needed to stay in that arena.”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“While plantar fasciopathy is probably the most common, that's your heel pain. And I do think that that is a diagnosis that we need to look at a little bit differently. Achilles tendonopathy. Also, very, very common. Other tendon diagnoses posterior tibialis tendon. So that's the tendon that runs along the inside of the foot. It's one of the biggest stabilizers of the medial calm of the foot. It's a powerhouse. That in the soleus which is your calf? Lower the calf muscle, powerhouses of the lower leg. In all of these tissues can be strengthened and produce power. We need to start looking at the foot just like we look at every other part of the body.”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Abnormal load dysfunction because you can't see it at the knee, you can't see it at the hip unless you were to take imaging. You'd start to see structural change. But you can see it at the foot. So you should be asking yourself, man, why am I developing Hammertos? And maybe I should pay attention to that. Because bunions and hammer toes also are Will increase your risk of falling and also decrease balance. That's a problem.”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So a neuroma is A nerve, irritation, pain. In between the toes. So the most common you will hear of is a Morton's neuroma, and that's typically in between the third and fourth toes. And it can be very painful Remember we talked about when you go to push off when you're walking? The wider and the stronger the forefoot is, the more stable it is. So if I have a foot that doesn't have splay or that looks like this in your trying to push off of it? You can irritate the nerves within the forefoot. and you can develop these nerve symptoms at the forefoot. Very painful.”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, where is it coming from? Is it something that has to do with the pelvis? Because when I'm standing, if I tilt my pelvis forward, I should feel my arches drop. So there's a direct correlation between what's happening at your hips and your pelvis and what happens at your foot And when I were to tuck my pelvis, you should feel the arches lift. So when we start to see things happen at the foot, it's a window. It's a window to what's going on, not only at the foot, but everywhere else in the kinetic chain.”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, one hundred percent, especially when I see patients that have bilateral symptoms at their feet. So that would be both sides. So, for example, if I see someone with bilateral bunions. Which would be the bump on the inside of the big toe. You have to ask yourself, Where is this abnormal load coming from?”
2025-05-29 · The Diary of a CEO · Your Toes Can Predict If You'll Die Early And Heres's How To Fix Your Plantar Fasciitis! - Dr. Courtney Conley (Foot Expert) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT