I've had flat feet and the related symptoms all my life and can remember the look of horror on my mother's face when as a kid I used to wear through my sneakers and shoes twice as fast because of my over pronating. To top it all off, I was born with a defect in the Achilles tendon on my right leg that resulted in multiple surgeries, splints for several years and orthopedic inserts to 'fix' my twisted foot - none of which worked.