Your Feet Don't Have to Hurt: A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Foot Care [Hardcover]

Suzanne M. Levine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2000

Did you know that the feet are the only part of a woman's body that naturally loses fat as she gets older, resulting in greater foot pain as she ages? Learn this and countless other secrets of women's foot care as a top female podiatric surgeon shows you why Your Feet Don't Have to Hurt.

In this unique volume, Dr. Suzanne Levine takes a decade-by-decade approach to foot care for women, explaining what we can do in our 20s, 30s, and 40s to avoid foot pain and surgery in our 50s, 60s, and beyond., featuring:
-- An "A to Z" symptom-finder
-- How to prevent and treat serious joint and ligament injury
-- The danger of botched pedicures
-- How the stresses of pregnancy affect your feet
-- How to repair the damage done by high-heeled shoes

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About the Author

Suzanne Levine, D.P.M., is a podiatric surgeon in private practice in New York and a clinical podiatrist and surpervisor of podiatric interns at N.Y. Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Author of My Feet Are Killing Me! and Walk It Off, her corporate clients include Revlon, Merrill Lynch, and American Express.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1st edition (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312262760
• ISBN-13: 978-0312262761
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,838,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST-HAVE FOR WOMEN, June 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Feet Don't Have to Hurt: A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Foot Care (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful, useful book and I really recommend it for anyone -- even if your feet don't hurt yet! Much of what she concentrates on is describing conditions which can develop if you do not pay attention to them now and what you can do to avoid these problems later on. She is NOT someone who tells you never to wear heels -- but she does describe how to take care of your feet so you can minimize damage. A great book to have -- I am already putting a lot of her suggestions into action (new pads for my Jimmy Choos!) and doing foot exercises to strengthen my feet. Thanks Dr. Levine!

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Leave It, February 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Feet Don't Have to Hurt: A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Foot Care (Mass Market Paperback)

A disappointing book that provides no new insites and presents very basic and minimal foot care information.

If one is to believe the author's implication regarding back doctors one comes away thinking them not clever enough to recognize a back problem that is foot related and that they never refer patients (or are too greedy to refer?) to podiatrists. One wonders if the author may be mistaken. Perhaps back doctors have good reason to never refer patients to her?

The author seems to believe that fungal infections are on the rise and spread "due to the proliferation of health clubs, school gyms and nail parlors." Hmmm. It couldn't be that those little spores are everywhere, opportunistic, possiblely gain a toe hold (no pun intended) due to the massive use of antibiotics in recent years, are often systemic etc etc. This is not to imply we should not follow hygienic (surprisingly not listed in the index) guidelines and common sense.

The book is presented on the cover as "A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Foot Care". Why the book should be presented as such is moot. The author draws from her patient files to illustrate points David, Sam and Ben will be pleased to have their foot stories included in this woman's guide book.

Overall the strongest reactions I came away with were that the author's superior attitude to other professionals was off putting and unprofessional and science and logic were sometimes shaky.

2.0 out of 5 stars I was pretty unhappy with this one, November 4, 2002

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This review is from: Your Feet Don't Have to Hurt: A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Foot Care (Mass Market Paperback)

I really thought this book would be better. I was alittle disappointed by it.

I have heel spurs with constant feet problems. I thought this one would help.

Sorry