Advice on Foot Care

There have been ads running for quite some time now for an all-natural way to cleanse your body and energize you while you sleep. If it sounds to good to be true, it generally is. The Kinoki Detox Foot Pads claim to detoxify your system while you sleep. They claim to remove toxic chemicals from the body, boost the immune system, extract heavy metals, improve quality of sleep and promote health. The pad is placed on the foot at night. In the morning, it turns a dark, brown color which is suppose to represent all the toxins it has pulled from the body during sleep. Unfortunately, your feet are not the main detoxifiers of your body, your liver and kidney are. Heavy metals and other “toxins” cannot be pulled out through the skin in any significant quantities.

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PTTD, or posterior tibial tendon dysfunction, is the compromise of the posterior tibial tendon and a complex group of ligamentous structures which support the arch, resulting in severe foot collapse. The posterior tibial tendon has been thought to be the main structure supporting the arch. In the past, the blame for an acquired flatfoot rested solely on the posterior tibial tendon. It was generally accepted that failure or rupture of the tendon resulted in foot collapse. But, now it is known that the posterior tibial tendon is not the only structure involved in the progressive collapse of the arch in the acquired flatfoot.

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