WALKING SLIPPERS IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS WALKING BAREFOOT
posted: Oct. 16, 2021.
“Seniors often think they’re doing themselves a favor by wearing slippers, but slippers are basically the same as walking barefoot,” says podiatric surgeon Marlene Reid, DPM. She’s co-owner of Family Podiatry Center in Naperville, Illinois, and past president of both the Illinois Podiatric Medical Association and the American Association for Women Podiatrists.
Dr. Marlene Reid |
“Podiatrists across the country have been seeing a ton more heel pain during the coronavirus pandemic because people have been home and walking around the house in slippers or no shoes at all,” she says.
Source: Leslie Goldman, silversneakers.com [10/9/21]
Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News