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Hello there, welcome along to RunPod in this very special bonus series on all things feet.

I'm Jenny Faulkner and I'm joined by top podiatrist from South West Podiatry in South West London. Liam McManus, hello there. Hi, thank you

for having me again. Do you just love talking about feet? Absolutely. Have you always loved it?

Or is it kind of like a strange obsession of your... No, I have. I didn't think you were going to ask this, but yeah, no, I've always wanted to be a podiatrist

ever since it was about nine or ten years old.

Okay, wow, really?

Yeah, yeah.

So I was involved with some club football back up the north where I'm from,

and had him going to see, I was in and out of a Coropidist's office and it just sparked my interest.

Yeah, fair enough.

Well, you're doing, I mean, you're doing very well with it.

You've got this brilliant clinic.

And in fact, I first met Liam when I went to see him about my ankle.

And I was like, there's so many questions I've got.

Please come and chat to me on Rompoc.

So here we are. And this week we're talking about plantar fasciitis, which

you know, we had actually Paul Hobra, who is a physio, he does a lot with London Marathon,

and he spoke about it, and yet still, everyone wants to hear more and more, because I didn't

realize how many people suffer from it. It's crazy. So in general, 10% of the population will

suffer from plantar fasciitis or pain underneath your heel at some point in their life.

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