If spending more time at home due to COVID-19 has meant less time wearing shoes (or sporting your favorite pair of slippers, sandals, or flip-flops), you may be experiencing more foot pain than usual. Or, if you've added at-home workouts to your schedule, not wearing the proper footwear or working out barefoot more often could also be causing issues with your feet.

 

Dr. Grace Torres-Hodges

 

Either way, foot pain is alarmingly common: 77 percent of people say they have experienced significant foot pain, according to research by the American Podiatric Medical Association. Specifically within the current stay-at-home period, there's been a rise in certain conditions involving heel pain and nerve pain in between the toes, in part because people aren't wearing supportive shoes, says Grace Torres-Hodges, DPM, a podiatrist based in Pensacola, Florida, and APMA spokesperson.

 

Source: Mara Santilli, Ashley Mateo, Women's Health [6/1/20]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News