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Hello there and welcome back to this very special bonus series on RunPod where I'm joined by top podist Liam McManus,

hello there. We're chatting all about feet. So you're an expert on feet. You know what to do

to help us with all the feet issues. So today we're going to talk about bunions. What is it

bunyan? It's a structural deformity of your foot, and that sounds horrible, doesn't it?

But basically we classify these as grade 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Effectively, what a structural deformity means is it's the first metatarsal that's actually shifting towards the inside of your body.

And with that, you get a structural change in your forefoot.

So there's a couple of misconceptions, isn't there, that, you know, a bunion isn't a growth or an

overgrowth of bone on the inside of your, inside of your foot. It's actually the head of your

metatarsal, which is moved. Oh, right. I genuinely just went, oh, like, it must be a growth. Okay, so it's not

that. It's not that. And it's not caused by high heels. Oh, there we go. But you do have somebody

to blame. So it's more prevalent on the female side, unfortunately, than male. And generally speaking,

your mother will have one, if you have one, and your grandmother will have have one if you have one and your grandmother will

have one if you have one so the misconception here is the fact that you know you then wear heels

all of your life you're an er-stewidess you have to wear heels for work and it's the heels that

have caused a bunion but in fact your mom's got one and your grandma's got one.

Okay, so it's a hereditary thing.

It's hereditary.

It's interesting because if anyone's ever got a bunion,

if you're like a celebrity and you go to the Oscars or whatever,

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