![]() We as patients and sometimes even practitioners get stuck on that fact that flat feet is bad. Also by believing that she has gotten really flat feet (when she didn’t), she bought shoes that also had high arches and it never really addressed her foot issues.Ī common misconception that many people have is that flat feet is bad. The practitioner unfortunately, did a disservice to this patient by perpetuating the problem… which is high arches and that actually caused her another problem - bunions and ultimately a surgery (prior to seeing me at the clinic). Recently, I’ve seen a patient who has relatively high arches, but her previous practitioner prescribed her orthotics that continue to make her arches higher. Often times, when I see patients come in for flat feet… They actually don’t have flat feet at all. My response to them is this, “What makes them think you have flat feet and has the orthotic helped your flat feet?” Most of the time, people will respond with “I’m not sure.” or “The orthotics have kind of sustained me for ” or lastly, “I can’t walk without wearing my orthotics. Often I hear patients complain about “OH, so-and-so says that I have terribly poor flat feet and I absolutely need orthotics!” Of course that comes into the territory of talking about flat feet. ![]() Recently, there’s been an influx of people asking about orthotics.
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