Recovering from Ankle Fusion Surgery? These Shoes Make a Difference
After an ankle fusion surgery, most people are focused on healing the joint — but few realize how critical footwear is in long-term recovery. A fused ankle doesn’t move like it...
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Recovering from Ankle Fusion Surgery? These Shoes Make a Difference
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Walking Your Best Friend in the Cold: Getting Plenty of Winter Exercise for You and Your Dog
When it gets cold out, it’s hard to make ourselves get up and take our dog out for some exercise. It’s hard enough to keep ourselves active when the air...
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Trick or Treat?! Getting Ready for Halloween Night
Ah, Halloween! The night when otherwise normal children are suddenly transformed (with the help of mom and dad’s pocketbook) into ghosts and goblins, superheroes and vampires. Instead of the usual...
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Ankles: A Complex Structure
Ankles are wonderfully put together joints that make sure the powerful movements from our leg muscles direct our feet to run, jump, walk, climb, hop, squat, and dance our way...
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The Importance of Proper Work Footwear
The average full-time employee spends 2,080 hours of their year at work. That’s about half the typical person’s waking hours.There are people whose job requires them to sit for long...
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Healthy Eating Habits
Here at Z-CoiL, we’re all about being healthy. We want people to live their best so they can stay strong and active. And we believe in capitalizing on all the...
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Staying on Track After Your Vacation
Aren’t vacations great? All the plans and reservations are made and you finally get to go visit that place you’ve dreamed of. What a blast!Then it’s time to go home....
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Posture's Importance
Here at Z-CoiL, we spend a lot of time talking about the importance of your shoes. Of course we do, it’s what we do for a living! We’ve spent years...
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Fashion vs. Function
Why oh why can’t all those fashionable shoes in the world be comfortable and good for your feet as well? It seems like a shame to not buy that sweet...
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How to Have Fun this 4th of July
Independence Day celebrates the United States’ declaration of independence from England. The drafters of the declaration document started working on it on July 2, and by July 4, 1776, had...
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Helping Lower Back Pain
Eight out of ten of us—that’s right, a whopping 80%—will suffer lower back pain sometime in our life. Lower back pain is the single leading cause of disability, and Americans...
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Biggest Myths About Foot Care
We all want to take good care of our feet so that they will remain healthy and pain free. But feet are complicated! All those nerve endings and bones and...
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Taking Care of Your Feet
Our feet are some of the hardest working parts of our body. We use them to go, go, go! Up and down stairs, lifting things in the wrong position, leaping...
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Staying Active in Warmer Weather
It is getting awfully nice out. Nice enough to set aside all those cold weather excuses from the last few months and venture outdoors for some fun in the sun.Yes,...