Some health conditions are very isolated. For instance, breaking your pinky will likely affect only your pinky and perhaps some nearby areas in your hand. A condition like flat feet, however, can affect more than just your feet. This article will explain how flat feet can impact other aspects of your health. About Flat Feet…
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The Connection Between Hammertoes and Shoe Choice
Is hammertoe a genetic condition or can it be caused by the type of shoes you wear? Do you ever notice how some people tend to always wear closed-toe shoes, no matter the season or location? While most can’t wait to toss their shoes to the back of the closet at the beginning of summer…
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Subtalar Joint Injuries in Athletes
There may be a fair number of things that we don’t agree on, but it’s hard to argue the popularity of sports. This is true whether we’re talking about the NFL, NBA, MLB, or some other acronym denoting professional sports leagues or about your child’s very first t-ball team. We love to play, and we…
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Are High Heels Really All That Bad for Your Feet?
Could my high heels be the reason that my bunions seem to be getting worse? Is it possible that COVID-19 may have accomplished what healthcare professionals and study after study have failed to do for years? For now, at least, a large number of women have decided that they have no intention of ever going…
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Treating Sesamoiditis
Is sesamoiditis typically treated surgically with a sesamoidectomy procedure? Sesamoid bones are different from other bones in the body. Instead of being linked together at joints like most other bones are, a sesamoid bone is embedded in a tendon. These bones are found at joints and, because of their unique placement, help to facilitate movement,…
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Common Types of Foot Surgery
What are some of the most common types of foot procedures being performed today? Let’s face it, when your feet hurt, it’s hard to truly focus on whatever else may be going on around you. If the cause of your discomfort is the fact that you just had to have those new shoes, even if…
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What Causes Fallen Arches?
Are fallen arches related to genetics or are they caused by behavior and poor footwear choices? Whether it’s referred to as having fallen arches or flat feet, pes planus, the more technical term, is an uncomfortable and often painful condition to have. There can also be a subtle stigma to it. Early twentieth-century policemen whose…
Continue reading…Foot and Ankle Osteoarthritis
Can osteoarthritis in the ankle lead to needing ankle replacement surgery? Arthritis affects more than 50 million people just in the U.S. alone. It is an equal-opportunity disease, striking men and women of all ages and races, although it does seem to affect women more. Even children are not immune. In the United States, arthritis…
Continue reading…Hammertoes: Causes and Treatment
If my mother and grandmother both have hammertoes, does that mean I will get them too? Is there anything more fun than planning a spa day with friends? Or just getting together for manicures and pedicures at your favorite salon? It’s important to make time to relax and be pampered once in a while and…
Continue reading…Causes and Treatment of Morton’s Neuroma
Are there treatment options for Morton’s neuroma other than surgery? Did you ever take a step and feel like there was a rock in your shoe? Or that a tiny assailant with a cattle prod was poking you in the ball of your foot? If neither of these prove to be valid assumptions, there is…
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