What Your Shoes Tell You About Your Walking Stride
How To Tell A Normal Wear Pattern Vs. Overpronation Or Supination If you flip over your shoes, you can tell a lot about your foot health. How? The pattern of wear on the bottoms of your shoes means different things. Your walking stride creates the foot pattern or...
How to Find the Right Marathon Training Shoes
The last thing you need in the middle of marathon training is a foot injury, right? To throw the brakes on just because of some incessant pain? No, thank you! While you might be able to pull through a sore quad, persistent foot discomfort can terminate training in a...
Maintaining Foot Health While Golfing
Your feet play an important role in developing or maintaining a low handicap status in golf. Each foot (the lead foot which is closest to the flag and the trail foot which is furthest from the flag) has its own role in accepting weight, transferring weight and...
How to Get Your Feet and Ankles Safely Through Track and Field Conditioning
Foot and Ankle Injuries Adult Athletes Need to Be Extra Careful to Prevent
When it comes to adult athletics, foot and ankle injuries are nothing out of the ordinary. Whether it's a weekly game of basketball, a league tennis tournament, or training for a marathon, feet and ankles take a lot of abuse. It can be surprising when an injury stops...
What Shoes are Good for Pickleball
As a podiatrist, I cannot stress enough the importance of wearing the right shoes for any physical activity, especially for those looking to play pickleball. Pickleball is a fun and exciting sport that requires a lot of movement, quick changes in direction, and...
How to Keep Peroneal Tendonitis From Becoming Chronic
Peroneal tendonitis is an unpleasant condition characterized by swelling and pain just below the bone of the outer ankle. Peroneal tendonitis can result from a “simple sprain” and is suspected when swelling persists. It usually heals well with proper care, but can...
Ideas for Staying Active While Resting a Foot Injury
Foot Pain and Pregnancy: Causes and Solutions
When pregnant, a woman’s body goes through a myriad of changes, some more uncomfortable than others. One of the most overlooked ailments that women endure during pregnancy is foot pain. Causes of Foot Pain During Pregnancy Two of the most common causes of foot pain...