When is the last time something you didn’t know you needed changed your life for the better?
Two months ago I didn’t know I needed orthotic insoles.
I knew of their existence, but I had no clue they helped with ankle sprains. Since then, I’m grateful every day for my physiotherapist’s advice to visit a podiatrist.
It turned out I had been walking wrong all my life. I didn’t feel regular pain or discomfort, I was just twisting or spraining my ankle once in a while.
Let me show you how this very thin add-on has brought my body into alignment.
The context
I’m an expert at spraining my ankle. The left one to be precise.
An underrated talent I developed at the young age of 13, from not getting the appropriate treatment when I sprained my ankle for the first time. I was at a holiday colony, where I was told by a nurse that my ankle would get back to normal if I just took it easy for a few days.
No complete rest. No cast. No follow-up.