I’ll paint a quick picture. The wettest year to date in a very long time. 422mm of rain to be exact, a lot of that in June.

I am a sports trainer for my local football club (AFL of course) and am required to frequently run onto the sports oval. More recently it has been running onto a wet, muddy oval, never to come out with dry feet – ever.

I had heard about waterproof sneakers so I thought I would give them a go. Off I went to my local Athlete’s Foot, get measured up and walk over Fitzi to so they can find out my foot type and ended up buying a pair or Brooks Adrenalin all terrain shoes with breathable, waterproof GORE-TEX. I asked if they were 100% waterproof with the reply being yes they are, providing water doesn’t come in the top of the shoe under the ankle. Fair enough I thought.

Don’t run your knees into the ground:
How to effectively deal with knee pain from running

Running – what a sport. It’s a great way to get out in nature, you can do it anywhere, and it’s free. All you need is a good pair of running shoes and a reasonable sense of direction, and away you go.

The only drawback? Knee injury. Running is a high impact sport and your knees are the joints that pay the price. In fact, a study by the Australian Sport Commission revealed that damage to the knees accounts for 42% of all running injuries.

Here at Border Podiatry Centre, we are committed to keeping you on your toes: footloose, fancy-free and putting your best foot forward.

It’s no secret however that one of the most common complaints we hear about in our practice, aside from those relating to our overuse of foot-related puns, is the problem of heel pain. Presenting in the form of sharp pain under the heel or in the arch, heel pain is a slow-healing condition which makes walking a painful ordeal for a significant portion of the population.

Many of us take advantage of our feet and it’s only whenwe begin to experience pain or discomfort that we notice how much we rely on them.

Because problems with your feet are not necessarily life threatening, they often become ignored or overlooked. Often, it’s only when then pain begins to impact on daily activities that people seek help.

So here I was reading the sports section of the local newspaper when I noticed players at football training running on cold wet grass with no shoes or socks on…in the middle of winter (I am not kidding). I checked the temperature that evening – absolutely freezing!
So picture this. The feet are nice, warm and cozy in their nice warm socks and shoes. The feet then come out of their nice warm cozy place to run around on freezing cold and wet grass and then what is the first thing that happens when you finishing running around on the freezing cold wet grass? You hit the showers or a nice hot bath to heat those little tootsies up. Sounds feasible right?
Well this is the perfect sequence of events, something will all do to different extents, for the development of painful, aching, throbbing CHILBLAINS. Ouch!