European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living you break in the rather than the shoe1 by Elizabeth Pennisi United press International when the smiling Salesman says not to those shoes will break in dont believe you break in the rather than the says Charles clinical professor and foot surgeon at the University of Chicago hospitals and almost three quarters of All americans complain of foot a third of the women surveyed for the american podia try association blame ill fitting but at least 25 percent choose shoes by How they look rather than How they shoes too Short or with toes too tight or heels too Loose can result in Cal and corns and make the pain from ingrown bunions and Hammer toes More than shoes create these say the women seem especially prone to foot accounting for up to 90 per cent of a foot doctors said childbearing is partly to when giving a woman produces a hormone that relaxes ligaments of the birth that chemical also affects ligaments in the by the time a woman has had All her her foot can be a size larger and said in old feet Are especially at the front because the natural cushioning in the sole thins blood flow so toes Are More prone to said drier skin is More susceptible to exercises to retrain the foots Muscles and keep feet in shape Are Ben for adults much More than for children surgery May be needed to treat aching there Are a lot of new surgical proce Many of which Are very said John orthopaedic surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in new new methods Speed recovery if not done can Lead to new headlined in podiatry advertisements is laser lasers can Burn away soft tissue foot such As corns or corns Are hard Mounds of skin that press against nerves calluses Are larger areas of toughened skin typically found under the Ball of the foot or big More common in calluses dont require treatment until they become with a Core of hard protein tissue that can be very but lasers cannot tackle Bone such As said a bunion is an abnormal and frequently painful enlargement of the joint where the big toe attaches to the Ball of the in an estimated 90 percent of the bunions Are according to for most arthritis that May develop after injury leads to one technique for removing minimal incision takes less than an hour at the podiatrists but is not seen As very Safe by some orthopaedic in this a Small Cut is made and a rotating similar to the tip of dentists is placed inside to Cut up the although Bone is the podiatrist lacks Fine control Over dam age to surrounding Waller sex another technique for treating bunions involves cutting a shaped notch in the Bone so ends wedge together and the patient can hobble out of the doctors office in a few hours with Only a Bandage around the no pins or casts Are if the surgery is done the bunion Doest come said no simple each foot contains 52 Bones articulating at 33 and attached to about a Hundred Muscles and tendons Strung together for performing two opposing one right after step after said to end each of our daily the Heel touches the and the rest of the foot Rolls Down until the sole is Flat on the then All those joints that let the foot conform to the surface under Neath stiffening the foot for pushing its rigid and hard so we can propel said no other animal has a foot that can change its character so fixing a foot requires understand ing what is wrong in this complicated a misfit muscle or misplaced Bone causes Hammer toes or Heel spurs that May make walking and Wear ing shoes if someone has pain under the Ball of the toes might curl under and push up to relieve some of the pressure on the where the flexed toe joint Sticks rub against the top of the shoe and May cause a tight calf muscle can also pull the foot out of a band of fibrous tissue attaches that muscle to the when the muscle Doest stretch it can cause the front of the foot to hit the ground too hard and Lead to leg sore Achilles or Heel spurs and sore feet in said exercises to stretch and rejuvenate this muscle can restore foot he up High heeled shoes cause poor say Erma Bombeck i have just come up with a wonderful Solu Tion to end All let the men give directions on How to get Trust no one will be Able to find i have yet to follow the directions of any Man and end up where in supposed to be without stopping and asking a child along the some Call it direction i Call it death by in i am standing there with my car keys in my hand when i ask my How do i get to that new fish Market on Torrence Street he puts Down his you go West on Silver Street two blocks and then turn North until you reach the at the go East English English you know i cant speak be Habla left or right i have tried giving you directions in left and and and you insist that where you East is always on your right and West is always to your so so that not ill draw you a forget just Tell me when i get to the end of the which Way do i turn North then turn right and if youre blinded by the Sun you Are going the wrong direct i thought the Sun always came up in the not at in the Why do you always try to confuse me i think you do that to make yourself and Why cant you have a Little patience at my patience is not a virtue its wherever lost women at service in obscure Cornfields and on exit we talk about this thing that men have about giving one woman told an unbelievable Story one Day about being she stopped at a service station and i am trying to find where my sons baseball team is prac in looking for Prindle the Man stroked his Chin and Prindle Field is about three Miles West of Dakes Corners off the Hans expressway using the Mill Road you go by two Stop make a right at the overhead and theres a Church on the Corner that used to be presbyterian but was bought out by the you take a jog in the Road and follow it through to a dead and then turn left and youll see a Little filling station called she looked up and that the name of this wheres Prindle Field that what in getting around to telling youre its behind the men c los Angeles times Syndicate