{"product_id":"foot-care-for-long-miles-prevention-and-treatment-of-injuries-specific-to-extended-walking-9798259170964","title":"Foot Care for Long Miles Prevention and Treatment of Injuries Specific to Extended Walking","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ariella Dawn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Exercise - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if your thru-hike ends not because of storms or weak will, but because you ignored a hot spot that became an infected blister?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-distance walking is a biomechanical orphan in sports medicine. Runners get the studies; hikers get the blisters. \u003ci\u003eFoot Care for Long Miles\u003c\/i\u003e closes that gap with sixteen chapters written by someone who walked 1,200 miles with an undiagnosed stress fracture-and later finished a hike with feet so intact a podiatrist asked if he had driven between trailheads.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book dismantles the dangerous myth that foot pain builds character. You will learn how to audit your gait before leaving the trailhead, select footwear based on pack weight rather than marketing, and manage skin hydration so calluses protect instead of crack. Inside, find field diagnostics that separate a tape-able hot spot from a stress reaction requiring immediate cessation, backcountry blister drainage that prevents cellulitis, and lacing strategies that redistribute pressure when arches collapse at mile fifteen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV confronts the injuries that actually end expeditions: plantar fasciitis that forces you to crawl, metatarsal stress fractures that feel like bruises until they break, and Achilles tendinopathy that turns every uphill into an anatomical gamble. Each chapter delivers medical precision with the pragmatism of someone who has treated these conditions with a trekking pole, leukotape, and ibuprofen.\u003cbr\u003e- Audit your gait before mile one to prevent injuries that surface at mile 400. - Distinguish between a harmless hot spot and a stress reaction that could terminate your trek. - Apply backcountry blister drainage and taping protocols when the nearest clinic is sixty miles away. - Use lacing strategies that redistribute pressure as pack weight and terrain camber collapse your arches.\u003cbr\u003eYour feet carry every pound of gear and every mile of ambition. Stop hoping they hold out and start ensuring they do. Get \u003ci\u003eFoot Care for Long Miles\u003c\/i\u003e today-because the terminus is only reachable if your feet get you there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883288150167,"sku":"9798259170964","price":1690.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798259170964.webp?v=1781100852","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/foot-care-for-long-miles-prevention-and-treatment-of-injuries-specific-to-extended-walking-9798259170964","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}