Your feet carry you through thousands of steps a day - and when they hurt, everything hurts: your work, your workouts, your patience.
Written by a Certified Pedorthist with 22+ years of experience and more than 15,000 patients.
In My Feet Hurt, pedorthist Asim Alli shares what two decades of fitting real feet - marathon runners, nurses on twelve-hour shifts, and veterans living with diabetes - has taught him about why feet hurt and what actually fixes them. No hype, no miracle insoles. Just the system professionals use: fit first, then footwear, then support, matched to your unique foot.
Inside, you'll discover:
- Why "good, expensive shoes" often fail - and the heel-to-ball fitting lesson most shoe stores skip
- A field guide to the common troublemakers - plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, bunions, neuromas, Achilles tendonitis, flat feet, high arches, and more - organized by where it hurts
- What over-the-counter inserts can and can't do (think reading glasses), and when custom orthotics are truly worth it
- The five arches of your foot - and why supporting only one solves a fifth of the problem
- A 60-second weekly self-check that catches small problems before they become big ones
- Dedicated chapters for runners and athletes, people with diabetes or neuropathy, all-day workers, children, expectant mothers, and older adults
- The red flags that mean stop guessing and see a professional today
If you have diabetes, the high-risk foot chapter alone - including a daily two-minute ritual that helps prevent the wounds behind most diabetes-related amputations - could change your life.
Whether your heel screams with the first steps of the morning, the ball of your foot burns by lunch, or you simply want to stay active without paying for it the next day, relief starts with understanding. My Feet Hurt hands you the toolbox.
Your feet have been trying to tell you something. It's time to listen.
