Leaving my local hospital last month, I strode out feeling I was walking normally at last – after years of an unbalanced, awkward gait, where I rocked and then walked forward rather than striding out evenly.
Weeks on and the lower back and sciatic pain that has dogged me for the past four years has gone, too.
There was a simple reason for this pain: like many people, I’d not been told that a knee or hip-joint replacement might alter the length of that leg. In my case it was made even worse because I was using an insole in the wrong
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