Another great review from a reader
I have gotten many nice reviews about my book Why You Really Hurt: It All Starts In The Foot, from buyers on Amazon but this was an especially thoughtful one. I am not holding my breath but it is only a period of time until some negative one appear. Heck no one makes everyone happy. But for now I am
5-0 with a really wonderful one from the Midwest Book Review
Ridiculously simple explanation and solution – where has it been?, July 11, 2009
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I just read through the book in one day and I found myself shaking my head in disbelief.
When I heard about the book coming out, I found a write up about the solution for morton’s toe (also known as morton’s foot) and tried it – a simple pad under the bone behind the big toe. I was completely blown away by the results.
For the past 25 years I’ve had back problems, then as a runner who likes to run marathons – ankle and knee problems which inevitably led to surgery. I always felt ‘off’ and never had good posture.
I’ve had six pairs of custom orthotics made over the years, tried products from mortonsfoot.com and none of them worked. Yet, this simple solution – which has been around all of these years changed everything. I went for every snake oil sales pitch and arch support out there – spending thousands of dollars and this pad which you make yourself ended up being the solution.
The book goes into the research behind it, why it works and so on in VERY easy to understand language. I felt the author could have been a lot more critical of the medical community in dropping the importance of this solution. None of the doctors I saw for my feet understood what the proper treatment for this was. Why did this information suddenly vanish? I suspect it has something to do with the almighty dollar.
One thing he did not address is confusion surrounding some ‘mortons foot solutions’ which are available over the Internet. Mortonsfoot.com, for example sells a solution for a condition called Rothbarts foot, a different foot disorder (search google) – but it is not the appropriate solution for a true mortons foot condition as their device lifts the metatarsal head AND toe, which is not correct for mortons foot.
The book is a great read on the history of this solution with interesting information on Dr Morton and Janet Travell. The instructions for making the pad are clear and easy to follow.
It wasn’t much of an issue for me, but some people might get annoyed with all of the typos, misspellings and references to things on the wrong pages etc. I was purely interested in the content of the book and not interested in grading the grammar.
There is a simple test out there to determine if you have mortons foot [...] If you have it or know someone who might – this book is all they will need to get themselves out of pain on the cheap. This information is so simple yet so great. The solution offered here works and was discovered by scientific research long long ago. The solution was even patented by Dr Morton 80 years ago. Remarkable. It works.
