David Overbey was working for his local phone company 30 years ago when he suffered a bad fall. “Probably about three or four weeks I was out of work, both my feet healing,” he says.

“I cut out on a pole. And what we call ‘cut out on a pole,’ is when you climb a pole with spikes. Sometimes your spikes come out and you go down – I landed flatfooted, and it broke both of my heel bones.”

Over the years, his feet problems got progressively worse. More issues followed with swelling, soreness, and gout. “During the course of the day walking, if I walked a lot, that would really be excruciating. For so many years I really couldn't walk down steps. When I did, I would hold on to the rail, you know, like an old man going down or up the stairs, and then when I tried to wear western-style boots or

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