{"id":898,"date":"2017-08-08T14:38:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/?p=898"},"modified":"2017-08-08T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:38:39","slug":"podiatrist-helps-women-put-their-best-foot-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Podiatrist helps women put their best foot forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-899\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shoedesigner-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shoedesigner-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shoedesigner-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shoedesigner.jpeg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frankie4Footwear owner Caroline McCulloch with the family dog Frankie. Photo: Ric Frearson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the Daily Telegraph news article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CAROLINE McCulloch\u2019s job is about helping people put their best foot forward.<\/p>\n<p>Her background as a podiatrist and physiotherapist set the foundation for her new career as a footwear designer creating shoes with \u201cbody mechanics in mind for women to feel comfortable and confident in\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>McCulloch, helped by her podiatrist husband Alan, says it was a natural progression to launch her label FRANKiE4 (named after her fox terrier Frank), a fashionable and functional orthopedic\/podiatrist footwear range.<\/p>\n<p>She says the turning point in her new career as a footwear designer was when a patient almost cried when shown the current range of comfort shoes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite my health professional background, I\u2019ve always had a love of fashion. When treating patients, it was difficult to refer them to comfort footwear styles I wouldn\u2019t want to wear myself \u2014 it felt hypocritical,\u201d McCulloch says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/newslocal\/podiatrist-helps-women-put-their-best-foot-forward\/news-story\/ec7b22d848dbbc6ae14d54f0e7f40e1d\">https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/newslocal\/podiatrist-helps-women-put-their-best-foot-forward\/news-story\/ec7b22d848dbbc6ae14d54f0e7f40e1d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Telegraph news article: CAROLINE McCulloch\u2019s job is about helping people put their best foot forward. Her background as a podiatrist and physiotherapist set the foundation for her new career as a footwear designer creating shoes with \u201cbody mechanics in mind for women to feel comfortable and confident in\u201d. McCulloch, helped by her podiatrist husband Alan, says it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,39,56,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}