What’s No. #1 on the Back to School list?

kids on first day at school

Good footwear of course! it doesn’t matter if its kinder garden, high school, college or University. Their feet are the foundation of their performance. Below is an interview I did on Rogers Television in Brantford 12 years ago, the subject matter was Children’s Feet pertaining to end-of-summer and back-to-school footwear purchases. As always during “Inside […]

Time For New Wheels

Many of you have heard me lament, I’ve been overdue for new shoes for a considerable while.  So finally, After work a few of weeks ago, I barged into our local shoe store in Brantford just at closing time (apologies to all the staff at “Al’s Shoe Factory”) for a little game of speed shopping. […]

What are the five key things to consider when buying a good stable shoe?

image of podiatry associates doctor testing shoes for flexibility in the ball of the foot

How to buy new shoe and what to look for has been a topic of conversation with patients for the past 35 years of my professional career. The reason we spend so much time on the subject of footwear is that without good stable footwear as a foundation, any efforts we make to improve on […]

Finally an Orthotic friendly sandal for men

good stable men's sandal at podiatry associate

For years our female patients have had the ability to purchase comfortable stable sandals with removable insole to accept their custom functional orthotics. Not since the disappearance of BITE sandals has the same been possible for males. Well, it would appear that now has changed! Today I had a patient return for a check-up and […]