Employees returning to the office find shoes not fitting: Gainesville podiatrist responds

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - After months or even years of working from home in slippers or bare feet, some people are finding they can no longer fit in their previous work shoes as they return to the office. 



This is because they have spent so much time at their at-home desks in slippers or barefoot, much different than narrow work shoes.

Gainesville podiatrist, Jere Scola, said the transition from a sedentary lifestyle, to now working 8 hours on their feet can cause heel and arch pain as well as swelling.

This results in the shoe not fitting. 



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“If you have pain in the bottom of your feet there are certain stretches to stretch your arch out. If you have pain in the back of your legs there are stretches where you can hang off a step and stretch your Achilles Tendon. There is physical therapy, ice, and an anti-inflammatory. I am not a big fan of pain medicine because that just covers a problem. So your want to fix the etiology of the problem instead of the symptoms” said Scola.

The constant wearing of comfortable shoes or no shoes at all has even widened some people’s feet causing looser ligaments.

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