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Great Feet for Life: Footcare and Footwear for Healthy Aging

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With the proper care, our feet are designed to last a lifetime of daily service, enduring a cumulative impact of tens of billions of pounds and carrying us more than 100,000 miles during our lives. "Great Feet For Life: Footcare And Footwear For Healthy Aging" by podiatry expert Paul Langer (Clinical Faculty Member, University of Minnesota Medical School) provides simple, effective instructions for self-care on every aspect including nail care, calluses and corns, shoe selection, skin care, arthritis, heel pain, hammertoes and bunions, shoe selection, shoe comfort, insoles and orthotics, footcare products, as well as common foot conditions and injuries. All throughout this superbly organized and presented footcare manual, the emphasis is on staying active, maintaining good balance, and preventing falls. "Great Feet For Life" is especially recommended to the attention of the non-specialist general reader with footcare concerns or questions, and would make an invaluable addition to both personal and community library Health & Medicine instructional reference collections.

One review panned this book and on that I almost did not buy it. Glad I did not listen. Well rounded book with lots of information-helpful information on problems, buying shoes, even trimming toenails. If you are getting older or having some issues and want to learn more about this important part of your body, this is definitely the book you want.

I got this book from the library and am glad I did. The most common phrase is probably "see your podiatrist" or "see your doctor". If you want to actually learn much about your feet try some other book. On the positive side, it does provide a list of websites for purchase of shoe inserts, orthotics, etc.