Foot Health
When Foot Pain Is a GP Visit Rather Than a Comfort Problem
Most aching feet are a management problem. A specific set of signs are not, and the difference is worth knowing before you spend another month adjusting your footwear.
Priya writes about recovery routines, walking habits and the small changes that make a long day easier. She shares personal experience and general information, never medical advice.
Articles by Priya Raman
Life on Your Feet
Compression Socks: What They Do, and Who They Actually Suit
They are standard kit for nurses and flight crews for a reason. They are also not for everyone, and one group should speak to a GP first.
Pain & Recovery
Why Heel Pain Is Worst in the First Steps of the Morning
It is one of the most recognisable patterns in foot pain, and the timing is the most useful thing you can tell a clinician.
Pain & Recovery
What Ten Minutes With Your Legs Up Actually Does
It is old advice, which usually means it survived for a reason. The reason here is straightforward plumbing.
Pain & Recovery
Why Foot Pain Turns Up in Your Knees, Hips and Back
A sore foot changes how you move, and everything above it adapts. The place that hurts most is not always where the problem started.
Buying Guides
Work Shoes, Clogs and Trainers: Why One Insole Rarely Transfers
The three most common types of work footwear have quite different internal shapes, which is why an insole that is perfect in one is disappointing in another.
Workplace Wellbeing
Sleeping After a Day on Your Feet
Tired is not the same as ready to sleep, and legs that have been upright for twelve hours have their own opinion about it.
Workplace Wellbeing
The Small Changes That Actually Survive a Busy Rota
Most advice for people on their feet assumes a calm week. These are the things that still happen on the bad ones.
Buying Guides
Foot Massagers: The Three Worth It, and the £10 Alternative
Electric foot massagers range from genuinely soothing to expensive novelty. Here is what separates them, and why the cheapest option on this page is not a joke.