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Speaker 1: They are simultaneously the most loved and maybe most detested

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Speaker 1: shoes of all time. Crocs are causing trouble and ACC

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Speaker 1: is being left to foot the bill. So we've just

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Speaker 1: reached October and already have had more CROC related injuries

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Speaker 1: this year than last year. Nearly two million dollars has

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Speaker 1: been paid out to people with full related claims involving jandles,

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Speaker 1: high heels and crocs, and ACC Injury Prevention spokesperson James

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Speaker 1: Whittaker joins us now Kyoder. James, Hey Jack, how do

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Speaker 1: you hurt yourself in a croc?

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Speaker 2: Well, most people are like bolling their ankles or slipping,

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Speaker 2: but also they might not wear them at the right time.

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Speaker 2: So crocs might be if you're just being around a

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Speaker 2: barbecue or standing there at the beach, but maybe people

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Speaker 2: are doing other things on them too, like running or

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Speaker 2: you know, anything else.

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Speaker 1: And people are running and crocs is that kind of.

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Speaker 2: I have seen it. I have seen it. It's really important.

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Speaker 2: Thing is people should wear whatever shoes they want to get,

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Speaker 2: but at the right occasion. Right, So we're s as

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Speaker 2: you could call it. But the other important thing that

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Speaker 2: listeners should know is that this is a tiny problem,

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Speaker 2: and it's a small problem, can bet a much bigger

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Speaker 2: problem with falls falls back.

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Speaker 1: Oh, hang on, James, we're losing you there. We'll see

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Speaker 1: if we can get nice and clear. So I think

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Speaker 1: James was saying that the falls were a problem. So

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Speaker 1: if you break down those full related claims from those

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Speaker 1: three different sorts of shoe, that the sort of shoe

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Speaker 1: that has evolved with the highest number of claims for

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Speaker 1: acc is jendles, then it's high heels. I'm getting a

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Speaker 1: little bit surprised by that. You'd almost be high heels

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Speaker 1: to be better. Crops comes in through what were you saying, James.

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying is crops and jandles are a small

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Speaker 2: part of a much bigger problem, which are trip slips

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Speaker 2: and falls in general. Because around seven hundred thousand people

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Speaker 2: have a fall related claim supported by a SEC in

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Speaker 2: any given year, and it costs two billion dollars to

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Speaker 2: support those people. And each one of those people would

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Speaker 2: have their own story too, So they might have what

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Speaker 2: others deem to be a minor injury, you know, like

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Speaker 2: rolling thenkle or something, but they might be into dancing

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Speaker 2: or that it might have been about to have a

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Speaker 2: really important football game or something like that, and then

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Speaker 2: there's lots of slow and effects for their team, perhaps

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Speaker 2: their workmates and everything else too. And the cool thing

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Speaker 2: is it's all preventabul. If you wear the right shows

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Speaker 2: for the right occasion, you probably won't get injured. Or

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Speaker 2: you know, if you clever part in front of you

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Speaker 2: and make sure there's nothing to trip over, you probably

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Speaker 2: won't have that trip or that slip. The other thing

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Speaker 2: is some of your listeners might be over fifty five

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Speaker 2: years of age, and that can greatly reduce their times

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Speaker 2: of having it full by doing strength and balanced classes

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Speaker 2: or by using this called the nimble app and that's

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Speaker 2: nimble with or y so n by NBL.

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Speaker 1: Very good. Okay, Hey, thanks for your time, James. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Just numbers ten of those climbs. This is funny. I

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Speaker 1: shouldn't I should laugh. Ten people were quote struck by

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Speaker 1: a person or animal while we'rearing crocs. I feel like

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Speaker 1: there's a story behind each one of those. Right twenty

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