When suffering
any disease, we have a fortune of information at our fingertips through the
Internet, some of which is from official medical bodies, and other from personal
experience of fellow patients. Seeing a Parkinson's specialist recently, I
asked him why no doctor had told me in the eight years of living with
Parkinson's about going barefoot at home (on tiled floors) can improve walking
considerably. I was met with the answer I suspected, that there have not been
any validated official medical trials or data to support this claim. However I
have found from fellow patients around the world, that many find going barefoot
of great help. I was only too happy to find something, anything, to improve my
walking, and fortunately having tiled floors throughout the house, I soon began
to kick off my shoes.
I was so thrilled
and astounded at the remarkable difference, at my last appointment, I gave the
neurologist a demonstration in his office. I walked up and down with my orthopaedic sandals on, and then took them off and walked again. He could
clearly see the difference and an immediate improved change in gait when walking barefoot.
So taking this
thought one step further, I decided to go barefoot in our garden. Outside the paving
tiles are flat with a non-slip surface, and walking confidently it felt good,
and so I've been spending a lot of time in the garden, whilst getting a good
dose of vitamin D. One day I was met with a problem I had not expected.
Standing in the garden one morning, admiring my pink roses that cascade down
and along the garden wall, a neighbour stuck his head over the garden gate and warned
me that he'd just seen a thin silver grey coloured snake enter our property under
the gate. He and I immediately looked down at my bare feet, and I quickly came
to the conclusion maybe today was not such a good idea to go barefoot.
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