WALKING SLIPPERS IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS WALKING BAREFOOT

“Seniors often think they’re doing themselves a favor by wearing slippers, but slippers are basically the same as walking barefoot,” says podiatric surgeon Marlene Reid, DPM. She’s co-owner of Family Podiatry Center in Naperville, Illinois, and past president of both the Illinois Podiatric Medical Association and the American Association for Women Podiatrists.  

 

Dr. Marlene Reid

 

“Podiatrists across the country have been seeing a ton more heel pain during the coronavirus pandemic because people have been home and walking around the house in slippers or no shoes at all,” she says.  

 

Source: Leslie Goldman, silversneakers.com [10/9/21]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News