Does this sound familiar?
Your boots or shoes hurt your feet! (In my case it was my right foot)
You feel the daily pain of wearing your boots or shoes. Every step rockets a sharp pain up to your nerve center. You wince as you walk. Even just sitting at your desk, there is the ever gift ache until you take off your footwear.
Simply put; your boots or shoes hurt your feet and they did not used to. What happened?
Not very long ago, that was what I was wondering and here is what I found out thanks to a Va Clinic doctor, Wikipedia and, WebMd.
There are basically two causes: whether your boots or shoes shrunk or your feet got larger.
Why do boots and shoes shrink?
The short answer is moisture. Your footwear got wet from surface water or sweaty feet, and as it dried the leather shrunk.
Why do feet swell?
Not along with or addressing any medical conditions like diabetes (and others) that require a thought about prescribed diet and drug regimen to operate and carry on swelling of the legs and feet. And, also not along with a temporary, infrequent condition caused by a long day of standing or walking around, there are a few common, much less severe causes which may be relieved by using a boot or shoe stretcher. They are bunions, corns and hammertoes.
What Is a Bunion?
A bunion is an abnormal, bony bump that forms on the joint at the base of your big toe. This big toe joint becomes enlarged, forcing the toe to crowd against your other toes. This puts pressure on your big toe joint, pushing it outward beyond the general profile of your foot, and resulting in pain.
Bunions can occur for a number of reasons, but a common cause is wearing shoes that fit too tightly. Bunions can also found as a follow of an inherited structural defect, stress on your foot, or a medical condition such as arthritis.
Often, naturally stretching out your footwear or padding your bunion with a bunion regulator will spoton the problem. However, severe cases of bunions may require surgery. Fortunately, all I had to do was stretch out my right boots and shoes a microscopic bit.
What is a Corn?
Corns and calluses are thick, hardened layers of skin that found when your skin tries to safe itself against conflict and pressure. Corns and calluses can be very painful.
If you are healthy, you only need rehabilitation for corns and calluses if they cause discomfort. For most people, eliminating the source of conflict or pressure by stretching out the footwear makes corns and calluses disappear.
What is a Hammertoe?
A hammertoe is a toe that is curled due to a bend in the middle joint of a toe.
Hammertoes are ordinarily caused by shoes that are too short or heels that are too high. Under these conditions, your toe may be forced against the front of your shoe, resulting in an unnatural bending of your toe and a hammer-like or claw-like appearance.
Relieving the pain and pressure of hammertoes may involve stretching the boot or shoe, changing your footwear and/or wearing shoe inserts. If you have a more severe case of hammertoe, you may need surgery for relief.
So much for the the bad news about why you may be experiencing foot pain…your boots have gotten smaller or you feet have gotten larger.
The good news is that there are many options to relieve your foot pain without surgery today!
Those options came in the form of a boot stretcher and a shoe stretcher for me (I )bought one of each. I got them from: www.bootstretcher.org/
Remember, I consulted a physician and I suggest that you do the same. I hope your feet are happy again very soon.
