When someone says that you
strongly resemble one parent or the
other, bear in mind that this
resemblance includes the structure
of your foot. In lining up four
generations of the same family,
we have learned that certain
deformities, or at least a
tendency toward certain weaknesses,
will repeat themselves again and again.
That is not to say that you
are destined to inherit the same foot
pathology your parents have, but in
the process of inheriting a poor or
weak foot, you open up a Pandora's
box that can eventually lead to any
number of foot ailments.
During the initial examination,
we always ask the patient:
"Did Mother, Dad or Great
Uncle Louis have bad feet?"
The vast majority of the time
the answer is yes.
People who inherit poor feet
experience day-in, day-out
micro trauma so that it
takes about 30 to 40 years
for their foot problems to first appear.
We generally start to see our
patients in the fourth decade of
life for that is when the vast
majority begin to seek out our services.
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