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Podiatry Blog
What to Know Before Your First Podiatrist Visit
Seeing a foot doctor regularly is as important as having annual checkups with an eye doctor or a dentist. Let’s cover a few things you can expect from your appointment.
Watch How You Walk: Understanding Your Arch Type
Did you know that the shape of your foot arch can affect the way you walk? If you don’t understand your arch type, you might be putting unnecessary strain on your feet.
Take Your Stubbed Toe Seriously
Hopefully you won’t be stubbing your toe anytime soon, but if you do, here are some signs of more serious injuries that you should keep an eye on.
Blood Sugar and Your Feet
Your foot health and blood-sugar levels are more closely linked than you may think and here are ways you can improve your foot health by staying on top of your blood sugar.
Beware of Wounds
When blood can’t reach your feet, it becomes very challenging to fight off infections. That’s why the main goal of all diabetic foot care is preventing infections that could lead to amputations.
Podiatry for Kids
You’re never too young to start taking good care of your feet. Let’s talk about some of the most common foot conditions facing kids and how to avoid and treat them.
Orthotics and You
While you’re doing your spring cleaning, throw out your old, thin shoe inserts and talk to your doctor about custom orthotics.
Keep Your Feet on Their Game
Playing sports is a great way to have fun and stay in shape. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with common foot injuries and conditions associated with sports and how to avoid them.
Living with Neuropathy
Have you noticed any tingling, burning, or loss of sensation in your feet? If so, you might be experiencing peripheral neuropathy. Peripheral neuropathy is caused by damaged peripheral nerves. In the case of peripheral neuropathy of the feet, the faulty nerves fail to properly communicate stimuli from the feet to the brain, resulting in a loss of sensations.
The Healing Power of Lasers
Multiwave Locked System (MLS) Laser Therapy is non-invasive alternative to inflammation treatments like injections and pain medications that can further interrupt your life and mobility.
What Gets on Your Feet’s Nerves?
Have you ever experienced any sensations of burning, tingling, or numbness in one or both of your feet? If you have, you might be experiencing a nerve disorder in your feet.
Living with Foot Arthritis
Arthritis can be preventable and manageable. Let’s talk a little bit more about what arthritis is, the causes, and how you can live your life around it.
Stop Diabetic Foot Ulcers Before They Start
Let’s identify some diabetic-related causes of foot ulcers and discuss how you can lessen the effects of diabetes on your feet.
Fact and Fiction About Heel Pain
If you’re experiencing heel pain, you should never assume the same treatment that worked for someone else would definitely work for yourself.
Diabetic Foot Care for Beginners
Here’s what you can expect from your feet as a diabetic and also how you can take care of them on a daily basis.
Athletic Overuse Injuries
We see many injuries that occur when new or seasoned athletes fail to warm up right or try to start a new sport too quickly. We put together a list so you can know what to look for.
3 Common Sesamoid Injuries
Sesamoid are bones that aren’t directly connected to other bones and are found in other places in your body in addition to your feet. Although they’re small, they have a big function.
Are Stubbed Toes a Big Deal?
Toes don’t have much fatty tissue to absorb a blow, plus they’re packed with nerve endings that send feedback to your central nervous system. This combination makes stubbed toes very painful.
What’s That Lump in Your Arch?
Plantar fibromas are noncancerous growths that typically feel like firm lumps in the arch of your foot.
Neuropathy can Lead to a Scary Fall
People with neuropathy often have numbness or tingling in their fingers or toes that can lead to serious pain. Untreated neuropathy can end up in permanent nerve damage.