TORONTO PODIATRIST DISCUSSES PET PEEVE IN TORONTO STAR

TORONTO PODIATRIST, ROBERT CHELIN RECENTLY IN THE TORONTO STAR DISCUSSED HIS PET PEEVE.  HE STATES " IT'S  ANNOYING WHEN YOU TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO AND THEY DON'T FOLLOW YOUR INSTRUCTIONS. AND THEY COME BACK IN A MONTH AND SAY, ' IT STILL HURTS, DOC, WHAT DO I DO?' AND I SAY DID YOU DO THE EXERCISES, WEAR THE SHOES AND SO ON? AND THEY SAY MAYBE I DID TWO OUT OF THE SIX."

AT ACADEMY FOOT AND ORTHOTIC CLINICS WE MAKE SURE THAT OUR PATIENTS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN HEALTH AND BECOME INVOLVED IN THE HEALING PROCESS.  WE TELL THEM THAT ULTIMATELY THERE IS ONLY ONE THING THAT WILL HEAL THEM AND THAT IS THE NATURAL HEALING POWER OF THEIR OWN BODY.  WE AS DOCTORS HAVE NO SPECIAL HEALING POWER OR THE THERAPY EQUIPMENT THAT WE USE ON THEM.  WE CAN ONLY HELP THEM HEAL.  THEREFORE THINGS SUCH AS ICE, EXERCISES, REST, PROPER FOOTWEAR AND ORTHOTICS WHICH THEY MUST DO AT HOME ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS SOME OF THE THINGS WE DO IN THE OFFICE AND ARE JUST WASTING THEIR MONEY IF THEY DON'T DO THEM.  WE LIKE THE SAYING, 'HELP ME, HELP YOU.'

BROUGHT TO YOU BY DR. HARDY AND MARZ HARDY, D.Ch., B.Sc., PODIATRIC MEDICINE, TORONTO CHIROPODIST AND TORONTO CHIROPODIST AND THE TEAM FROM ACADEMY FOOT AND ORTHOTIC CLINICS.

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