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For 30 years I told women with bunions the same three things: wider shoes, custom orthotics, and eventually surgery. I said it in good conscience. It was the best I had. Then I got a bunion of my own. I ran every tool I'd ever prescribed on my own two feet. The orthotics. Three different splints. Every one of them could manage it. Not one could fix it. And I did what my patients do, which I'd never really understood until then. I stopped taking my Sunday walks. I sat through my niece's entire wedding and didn't dance once, I told everyone my back was bothering me. My granddaughter asked her mother why I never come to the playground anymore. Me. An orthopedist. Hiding my feet from the people I love. The thing I needed didn't exist, so I built it. It brought the pain down within days, the first morning I stood up without that stabbing step, I laughed and then I cried. If you hide your feet too, read what I built and why. → — Dr. Anna Becker, Orthopedic Specialist, Munich