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New location 27 · Thursday, October 25, 2012 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com kyBoot - The Joy of Walking on Air For the past 100 years, the principle that the shoe has to support and guide the foot has been valid in the shoe industry. This basic principle has been deeply imbedded in the consciousness of physicians, shoe manufacturers and consumers. Even today physicians prescribe orthopedic arch supports for problems with the knees, hips and back. The causes of the complaints, such as a lack of strength, coordination, and movement of the foot are often not recognized and only the symptoms treated. In the 1990s Swiss native Karl Muller discovered the health enhancing advantages of walking on elastic clay when he lived in the middle of the rice paddies in Korea. To bring the rice paddy feeling into the everyday life of the modern man, the engineer developed the shoe with the rounded sole. Though this unsteady sole was contrary to the shoe industry's basic principle of `supporting, guiding, and absorbing', it received numerous positive reactions from consumers, became a worldwide success, and to this day has sold over 10 million pairs. Muller, though happy with the initial product, wanted more; he wanted to develop the perfect rice paddy feeling when standing and walking. He believed that the therapeutic reaction is more positive when the foot perfectly complies with the elastic rice paddy feeling. Enter the kyBoot `walk-on-air' concept. After having researched and developed for years, Muller and his team succeeded in perfectly imitating the feeling in what is now called kyBoot. The kyBoot sole consists of an elastic air cushion, which activates the foot muscles when walking. This is a main prerequisite for a natural walking position. The foot, the foundation of the human body and key to the solution of the most common back, knee, circulation, and foot problems, must be dynamically strong in order to absorb shocks and to guide the body into an upright position. Every step taken in the kyBoot momentarily launches you into weightlessness. The soft, supple soles gives your foot maximum freedom of movement while being kind on your joints, relaxes your back, exercises your muscles, activates blood flow in your legs, and stimulates the receptors in your feet as they feel the floor surface. After being successful throughout Europe, Middle East, and Asia, kyBoot has finally made its way to North America ­ with its first store right here in downtown Oakville. By offering this revolutionary shoe concept, the two partners, Paul Campbell of Sole Dynamics Inc. and Medicine Shoppe Pharmacist/Owner Richard Price, managed to bring the unique kyBoot `walk-on-air' feeling of comfort and life enjoyment to health-conscious Oakville-area residents. The new 2012 collection of kyBoot Shoes, Sandals and Winter Boots is now available at The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy at 267 Lakeshore Road East (Trafalgar and Lakeshore North Side). For more information about kyBoot, please visit www.kyBoot.ca. Tips: While visiting the store, ask for the FREE kyBoot walking test in Downtown Oakville and enter the contest to win a pair of kyBoot shoes of your choice! james hoggett / special to the BEAVER / @halton_photog state-of-the-art facility: The Oakville Endoscopy Centre recently opened its new 20,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility at 2125 Wyecroft Rd., Suite 5. From left are: Dr. Naveen Arya, Dr. Ronen Behar, Dr. Douglas Bair and Dr. Joe Pham. The Oakville Endoscopy Centre makes a colonoscopy, said to be the gold standard for detecting colon cancer, available to individuals within six months. For more information about the newly-relocated centre, visit www.theoec.ca. Diabetes PROGRAM · Recently diagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes? · Having problems controlling your blood sugar? · Our nurses & dietitians can help you. HALTON We're here for you. Call us: BURLINGTON SITE Joseph Brant Community Health Centre 1182 North Shore Blvd. East Burlington, ON L7S 1C5 Tel: 905-633-7070 MILTON SITE Halton Healthcare Services 7030 Derry Rd. Milton, ON L9T 7H6 Tel: 905-878-2383 ext. 7410 OAKVILLE SITE Halton Healthcare Services c/o Oakville Corporate Centre 700 Dorval Dr., Suite 609 Oakville, ON L6K 3V3 Tel: 905-338-4437 GEORGETOWN SITE Halton Healthcare Services 1 Princess Anne Drive Georgetown, ON L7G 2B8 Tel: 905-873-0111 ext. 8502 Halton Diabetes Program has been granted recognition by the Canadian Diabetes Association.