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A New Foot Health Solution: How to Help Heel Spurs, Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendon, Flat Feet, Shin Splints and Foot Pain [Paperback]

Dennis Denlinger (Author)
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August 1, 2001
"Foot Pain Got You Down? Do You Stand, Walk or Run? Learn How to Rid Yourself of Foot Pain Naturally" "Get Rid of Foot Pain

• Without Arch Support Crutches

• Without Pain Killer Drugs

• Without Risky Surgery" Revolutionary book teaches how to use your foot muscles the natural way to relieve foot pain, plantar fasciitis, foot arch pain, Achilles tendon pain, heel spur pain, shin splints and other unwanted foot problems. The book, "A New Foot Health Solution," teaches a permanent fix for many foot problems which stem from flat feet.


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The New Foot Health Solution is very simple. You can test it for yourself with equally simple experiments.

The most basic part of the theory has to do with muscles, bones and ligaments. You already know what muscles and bones are.

Ligaments are the tough material which holds the ends of bones together at joints. You can see a ligament the next time you eat a chicken leg. It is the tough material at the joint between the ends of the thigh bone and the drumstick bone.

The job of the muscles is to move bones and to hold bones together at the joints.

However, sometimes muscles have to rest, such as at night when you sleep. That is when ligaments take over the job of holding bones together at the joints. Without ligaments you would wake up in the morning with your ribs mixed up with your toes. What a mess that would be.

Ligaments are not made strong enough to hold the bones together at the joints when the muscles and bones are carrying a lot of weight such as when you stand, walk or run.

What happens when ligaments are made to carry more weight than they are supposed to carry? Your joints hurt. You feel pain. What is this like?

Want to know what it is like for joints to hurt? Remember on the playground, kids would bend their playmates' fingers backward? Perhaps you had that done to you. Perhaps you did it to others. Ouch, that would hurt. Right there ligaments in the fingers were being stretched.

This kind of problem can happen everywhere in the body. However, we are looking at the feet right now.

There are many ligaments or ligament-like material in the feet. When the muscles which shape and operate the feet are not working right, those ligaments will stretch and hurt.

Use the muscles right, and the ligaments will not be stretched and will not hurt.

There is more, but that is the basic. To learn all about it, and how to use muscles such the ones which operate your feet, Order and Read "A New Foot Health Solution" Now.

From the Author

"About The Discovery Of The New Foot Health Solution"

Every revolution has to start somewhere. This one started with foot pain. It started with my foot pain.

The starting point was rather odd. The pain was in my big toe which had an ingrown toenail. Normal shoes pressed against the toe, making it hurt.

So, I purchased a pair of big toed shoes called Earth Shoes. They were very odd looking with their low heels. Those shoes were touted as being very comfortable for most people - but some did complain and couldn't wear them.

My ingrown toenail definitely felt many times better. However, my arches began to hurt something fierce. Those original Earth Shoes had bumps just ahead of the heel which caused pain if you didn't have a good arch and my arches were terrible.

One article I read stated that some people loved their Earth Shoes and some couldn't wear them. Being one of the latter, I reasoned that if some loved to wear them and I couldn't stand the pain from them, I must be doing something wrong.

So, I looked and looked. My Architectural training probably helped. In short, I discovered how to fix my feet. I wrote about it. You can find out for yourself what I did by Ordering and Reading "A New Foot Health Solution" Now.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 87 pages
  • Publisher: eBookstand (August 1, 2001)
  • ISBN-10: 1589090675
  • ISBN-13: 978-1589090675
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,871,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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1.0 out of 5 stars a big letdown, March 24, 2004
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This review is from: A New Foot Health Solution: How to Help Heel Spurs, Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendon, Flat Feet, Shin Splints and Foot Pain (Paperback)
I bought the ebook version of this and was disappointed. It is a workbook format which presents a understanding of why plantar fasciitis occurs -the tendons and ligaments are strained because they are doing work meant to be done by muscles. The "foot arch muscle" gets weak and so the foot arch collapses causing plantar faciitis and other conditons. So you strengthen the "foot arch muscle". The "foot arch muscle" is not in the foot but in the calf and you are supposed to keep it tense and "walk the right way" - toes pointing straight ahead. oh and you can do calf raises - up on your toes and down. that's about it.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money, September 3, 2007
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HBMommy "HGS" (Sunny California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A New Foot Health Solution: How to Help Heel Spurs, Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendon, Flat Feet, Shin Splints and Foot Pain (Paperback)
This book is a complete waste of your money. It is written for a simpleton. This book lists on Amazon for an exuberant amount of money making one believe the content must be valuable, with the intent that you will buy direct from author's site believing you're getting a deal. I was suckered!
I found myself feeling as though I was reading a book for a 4th grader. Both my wife and I laughed that I was suckered into buying this. The 1st chapter which can be downloaded from the author's website is fairly well written making you believe the book may have some intrinsic value however, it is a total let down once you view the rest of this book. There is better, (if better can even be suggested?) more accurrate information for free on the internet if you simply search. I would have returned my copy but it was not worth the time or effort. I threw it in the trash so dissappointed. If you are suffering from arch pain as I am, this book will not solve your problem. It does not even provide enough education to justify selling it. This book is nothing more than an explotation of one person's realization 15 years ago that arch pain can often stem from having flat feet. There is not much more to the book than that. I would have rated it zero, but the rating system only goes to 1.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Overly simple and full of mistakes., November 4, 2007
This review is from: A New Foot Health Solution: How to Help Heel Spurs, Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendon, Flat Feet, Shin Splints and Foot Pain (Paperback)
Book Review: "A New Foot Health Solution" by Dennis Denlinger

I strongly do not recommend this book. This is an old book created by an architect/engineer who used shoddy analysis to derive a couple overly simple techniques. His engineering background evidently didn't help him much, as Mr. Denlinger makes a number of gross biomechanical mistakes in this book. He attributes flat feet to "under pronation" and a "high arch" to "over pronation". Quite the opposite is true - flat feet are pronated too much and high arches do not pronate much. Denlinger does not understand the very *definition* of foot pronation, which is fundamental to the it's role in plantar fasciitis and it's function of the arch. He also attributes the "main arch muscle" to the peroneal tendon and related muscles, which is also grossly incorrect. Tightening the peroneal tendon everts the foot which relates to pronation and flattening of the arch - it does not support the arch.

In 84 pages, he wastes a lot of time describing how he "discovered" his technique and gives very simplistic descriptions of bones, muscles and tendons that would be appropriate for a 5 year old. In his "workbook" section, he states "Muscles move the body around and can move other things around..." Then he asks, "give three examples of things muscles do (like running, lifting, etc.)." Unfortunately (or fortunately) he does not give answers to his questions, so I guess I'll never know if I answered this correctly.

What is his "secret"? In a neutral position with toes pointing straight ahead, you press with the ball of the foot to the floor in such a way that you "create an arch with your foot". And the only exercise he suggests is "toe raises" to strengthen the "arch muscle". He does not provide any stretching exercises.

Denlinger gives an inexcusably misleading lesson in functional anatomy and only offers a couple simplistic exercises. Exercise and stretching can be beneficial to foot problems, but you won't find quality information in this book. Plantar fasciitis is caused by many different things, and a podiatrist can provide you with stretching and strengthening exercises custom for your situation. All of the plantar fasciitis exercises are also easily found for free on the web.

Regards,
Louis S.
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