My name is Dr. Sarah Bennett and I’ve been a physical therapist specializing in women’s health for over 20 years. Over the years, I started noticing a troubling new pattern in my clinic.
“By the time I get home from work, my feet feel like hell. I take ibuprofen twice a day just to get through my shift but it barely helps anymore.”
It was deep, throbbing pain that made these women completely reliant on painkillers just to survive the workday.
At first, I assumed it was outside my expertise— so I referred them to podiatrists. All were told it was just inflammation from standing too long. But after trying insoles, compression socks even cortisone shots nothing changed. .
One woman, Andrea, came back after her third cortisone injection. She was a 46-year-old nurse who stood on her feet for 10 hours a day. Now she was battling crushing fatigue, brain fog, night sweats, weight gain she couldn’t explain and on top of it all, this unbearable foot 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. Ibuprofen doesn't take the pain away anymore. If this is what the rest of my life will look like, I will be forced to quit my job."
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…