My name is Dr. Sarah Bennett and I’ve been a physical therapist specializing in women’s health for over 20 years.
A few years ago, I started noticing a strange trend in my clinic: women coming in for heel pain that just wouldn’t go away, even after starting hormone therapy.
Their scans looked normal. Their bloodwork looked fine.
But they were still waking up every morning in pain — confused, frustrated, and scared.
At first, I thought it was outside my expertise so I referred them to rheumatologists. But every time, the tests came back "normal". They’d return months later, still stuck in the same cycle: pills, orthotics, cortisone shots… nothing worked
One woman, Hannah, came back after 6 months of HRT She was 42— a healthy weight, ate clean, exercised regularly. But now she was battling crushing fatigue, brain fog, night sweats, weight gain she couldn’t explain and on top of it all, this unbearable heel pain that outweighed everything else.
She sat on my exam table, clutching her shoes in her hands, and started bawling. Through tears, she said:
“I don’t know what to do, I've literally tried everything. If this is what the rest of my life will look like, I don’t want to be alive anymore."
That moment shattered me.
Because I knew how she felt — she was exhausted, scared, and felt like her body was betraying her.
That’s when I stopped outsourcing the problem and I started doing my own research.
What I found made me furious…