Ideas for Staying Active While Resting a Foot Injury

If you’ve sustained an injury to your foot or ankle, it can be tough to stay in shape while you recover. But even if you’re unable to run or play your favorite sports, you can still keep yourself active Do plenty of stretching Your body’s...

Properly Protect Feet and Ankles During Football Season with These Tips

Ankle pain, Ankle Sprains & Strains, Sports Injuries

Football is back, and for your kids or teens, that means excitement, enjoyment and enthusiasm. It can mean the same for you – but it can also mean the worry of injury to their feet and ankles like turf toe or nail trauma. Happily, it’s possible to...

Foot Pain and Pregnancy: Causes and Solutions

Foot Health, Heel Pain

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...

Expert Podiatrist Near Me for Seniors

Diabetic Foot Care

Proper foot health is an often overlooked but extremely important issue for senior citizens. Without healthy feet, it will be difficult to maintain an active lifestyle. In order to ensure good foot health throughout their golden years, seniors should visit a...

What Does a Stress Fracture Feel Like and What Should You Do?

Stress Fractures

A stress fracture is a small crack in the bone, often caused by repeated impact, most often from running or jumping for extended periods. They are particularly common in your feet because these areas take a lot of the impact when you move. What does a stress fracture...

Black Toenails? How Running Affects Your Toes and What You Can Do

Foot Health, Toenails, Ugly toenails

If you’re a frequent runner, you know how much abuse your feet take on a regular basis. One very common foot injury that avid runners experience is a slight bleeding or bruising underneath the toenails, giving them a dark blue or black color. This injury...

Stretches to Help Prevent Common Running Injuries

Ankle Sprains & Strains, Sports Injuries

Recent studies indicate 3 most common general running related muscular-skeletal injuries are: *medial tibial stress syndrome, or “shin splints” (9.5% prevalence *Achilles tendonopathy- inflamed or degenerative changes (6.2-9.5% prevalence) *plantar fascial pain-...

What Stretches Can Help Relieve Plantar Fasciitis?

Foot Health, Proper Footwear

There are various stretch exercises you can do in order to relieve the pain of plantar fasciitis. The best time to start with some of these exercises is early in the morning before you get out of bed, seeing as sleep tightens the planta fascia. However, it’s not...

Heel Pain

Heel Pain, Plantar Fasciitis

Heel pain is likely the most common problem most podiatrist treat. Heel pain can happen for many reasons but the most common of these is a condition known as plantar fasciitis. This used to be called “heel spur” but we have long ago learned that this...

Diabetes and Its Effect on the Feet

Diabetic Foot Care, Diabetic Neuropathy

The effect of diabetes on your feet Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by impaired glucose metabolism resulting in elevated glucose levels. Diabetes affects over 29 million Americans and that number is rising. An elevated blood glucose leads to damaged...