How My Entire Body Went Into Alignment Thanks to This Little-Known Medical Help

And how you can check if you’d benefit from it too

Julienne M.
5 min readSep 12, 2023

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.

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