Fix Your Feet: Build the Best Foundation for Healthy, Pain-Free Knees, Hips, and Spine [Paperback]

Dr. Phil Maffetone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2004

A unique approach to treating common foot and ankle problems

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From the Back Cover

Your feet are your body's basic foundation and crucial to maintaining balance,
alignment, and overall health. Take care of them and everything else will follow.
Fix Your Feet is for anyone - not just athletes - who has ever suffered from foot pain or dysfunction and its resulting aftereffects. Here in simple, clear language is how to assess and treat foot and ankle problems and maintain their health by making simple adjustments and ejecting old habits - including getting rid of improperly fitting shoes.

About the Author

For more than two decades, Dr. Philip Maffetone, an authority on alternative medicine and a certified acupuncturist and physiotherapist, helped world-class athletes and regular folks alike to live, eat, and exercise simply and sensibly. His practice taught him that Western health care systems treat symptoms but not causes. He writes extensively on the need for individuals to understand their own bodies and to take responsibility for their own health.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592281982
• ISBN-13: 978-1592281985
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #577,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Hip & Thigh Workouts

More About the Author

If you've lost track of me, I'm still here. After devoting my life to private practice and working with many athletes around the world, I expanded my horizons. I spent a considerable amount of time researching plants to find the most therapeutic phytonutrients. This culminated with the development of a number of nutritional products unique to the industry. I continued to lecture and write (I'll list some of my books below). I recently developed a unique form of neuromuscular biofeedback (Manual Biofeedback)and incorporated neurofeedback, spend time with some rock bands as their doctor, and other exciting ventures.

In 2004 I further expanded my world, plunging nearly full time into a singer-songwriter career. Yes, this seems like a radical change, but it's what my mind has always wanted but never made it clear enough. I went to LA to work with producer Rick Rubin and have written about 200 songs and recorded five demo albums, and my first CD is due out December 2006.

With all these different directions, I have not abandoned my own personal health and fitness philosophies and practices I began teaching many years ago.

Some of my other books include:
Fix Your Feet (Lyons Press)

In Fitness and In Health (The No Nonsense Guide)(4th edition, Barmore)

Complementary Sports Medicine (a textbook) (Human Kinetics)

Eating for Endurance (2nd edition, Barmore)

Training for Endurance (Barmore)

Nutrition for Children with Brain Dysfunction (with Coralee
Thompson, MD; in Press)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fixed my feet, August 1, 2010

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undinabiker - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fix Your Feet: Build the Best Foundation for Healthy, Pain-Free Knees, Hips, and Spine (Paperback)

After many years of foot issues, I had gone through several different, very expensive trials of custom-made inserts, cushioned and supportive shoes, daily exercises, etc. I read this book (very quick read), did what he said--including gradually going barefoot, which was against all the advice I had received elsewhere--and was stunned to discover that my feet, after almost 50 years of over-correction, were fine--they just needed to be strengthened--because they had been coddled for years! Following Maffetone's advice made my feet strong. I remember getting a foot massage from my husband after several months on the Maffetone protocol, and he told me my feet had gone from shark cartilage (no support, no muscle) to feeling like real feet. I used to only be able to wear extremely specific shoes, couldn't stand for very long, and couldn't walk without pain. That is all behind me, and it's been about four years of bliss. Thank you, Philip Maffetone! P.S. I am barefoot as I write this!

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Feet?, May 31, 2008

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L. Buhler (Eugene, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fix Your Feet: Build the Best Foundation for Healthy, Pain-Free Knees, Hips, and Spine (Paperback)

I bought this book because I have heel pain. It contains a lot of good information, some of which conflicts with that of my podiatrist. The author advocates being barefoot for healthy feet. Maybe being barefoot caused my problems? For now it is three months of "inserts." Then I will happily try barefoot again.