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Achy Breaky Feet... Hips... and Knees

Achy joints and muscles are a symptom of NCGS
***Update***

9 April 2018 - 6 weeks with my inserts and I still feel like dancing! Daddy got his inserts today. I really hope they help his feet and hips. 

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 I'm 54 years old and up until recently I have been feeling the effects of aging... or so I thought!

On 26 February 2018, I started a new job working in a warehouse a couple of months ago. I walk anywhere from a 1.5 to 3 miles a day. After my first two days, I hurt from my toes to the roots of my hair. I need to clarify that I have been behind a desk and very sedentary for the last 20 years, so I just thought the aching muscles and joints were part of the old, fat, aging process.

On 28 February 2018, I went to The Good Feet Store and paid $400, you heard me right $400, for a pair of inserts for my shoes. I had just gotten off work and could hardly get out of my car; my lower body hurt so bad. I walked in kind of bent over and splay legged, and I got appropriately sympathetic looks from the staff and other customers (the other customers were easily in their 80's or 90's). The young lady took a "fingerprint" of my foot, she measured my poor swollen trotters, and went to the back of the store and came back with a selection of inserts for me to try.

The first pair were too stiff and the arch was excruciatingly high. The second pair was too low and didn't quite do the trick. But the third pair... Oh, the third pair! When I stood up, I stood up straight and walked like a normal human instead of a knuckle dragging neanderthal! ALL of the pain went away! 

I bought those inserts on the spot!

The sales girl cautioned me that they should be worn only for a few hours at a time, so I could break my feet in to them. Yeah, right! The following morning those puppies went straight into my brand new Merrell work boots and I wore them all day!

My feet felt so good, I trotted... TROTTED! This fat girl doesn't trot... I don't even like to walk! But my feet feel so good I want to go dancing!

These inserts are expensive, but they are the best investment I've ever made for myself! 

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