3 Types of Cancer That Can Affect Your Feet
It’s a good idea to pay attention to your skin to avoid burns and to catch any potentially worrisome skin conditions before they spread.
5 Safe Outdoor Activities
As states start to reopen after quarantine, many activities are starting up again with proper social distancing and safety measures in place.
5 Tips to Make Working from Home Easy & Productive
Working from home during the pandemic creates many challenges for staying focused and getting things done. If you have housemates or kids, then the importance of carving out time and space for work is all the more essential.
Relationship Advice for Couples During Quarantine
The seemingly unending stress of financial insecurity, crowded living quarters, work issues, and fears of getting sick or making others ill is a tremendous burden for everyone and is really taxing for personal relationships to say the least. Keeping even keeled under the stress of all these challenges is essential.
7 of the World’s Most Nutritious Foods
Eating a wide variety of healthy foods will help provide you with the nutrients you need.
Toe Lesions May Be a Sign of COVID Infection
Distinct toe lesions that may be a sign of a coronavirus infection are showing up in otherwise healthy people and have raised alarms with some health experts that ‘COVID toe’ should be added to the list of conditions that warrant sufficient grounds for testing.
Self-Care is Essential During Quarantine
Taking care of your mental health is essential during this stressful time. While having an online therapy appointment or giving yourself a spa treatment are good, there are many activities and ideas that can be done with little or no expense.
Virtual Tours Are a Great Way to Pass the Time
Staying occupied and entertained while spending a lot of potentially stressful and uncertain time isolating indoors can be a challenge. However, even if you don’t have a streaming video service you can still find hours of enjoyment online with a wide variety of virtual tours.
Eat Foods That Boost Your Immune System
A great way to gain a little peace of mind during this stressful time is to be sure you and your family are getting plenty of the right nutrients to boost your immune systems. Variety is essential for getting all the nutrients your body needs to fight off colds, flu, and other illnesses.
How to Make an Indoor Bowling Game for Kids
Regularly finding fun ways to entertain your kids and get them moving during this time of social distancing can be challenging and requires some creative solutions. One idea is an easy hallway bowling game.
3 Tips for Learning to Love Poetry
So for those of us who are stuck in the house all day, now’s a good time to try a poetry reading that has a more open and inclusive objective.
4 Hammertoe Treatments
The hammertoe deformity affects the four small toes causing one or more of them to bend downward at the middle joint.
4 Ways to Get Rid of Plantar Warts
Plantar warts can be a particularly painful type of wart both for their location on the bottom of the foot and the fact that they frequently are hidden by thick, callused skin in the heel and ball areas of the foot.
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How Getting Older Affects Your Feet
The wear and tear on your feet over the years can really take a toll with increase in skin conditions, infections, and injuries all the more likely.
5 Treatments for Haglund’s Deformity
Haglund’s deformity is the name of a common bone condition that can occur in people who wear high heeled shoes, which is why it is also called the pump bump.
Check Your Feet for Skin Cancer
Many people associate skin cancer with excessive exposure to sun and ultraviolet light and therefore think that their feet aren’t likely to be affected. However, other factors are involved that can contribute to the formation of cancerous growths on your feet and ankles.
Ankle Sprains Require Proper Treatment
An ankle sprain is one of the most common injuries seen by foot doctors. They often occur without warning when you wrong foot yourself while stepping over a curb, exercising, or playing sports.
Treat Pronation Problems with Custom Fitted Orthotics
Misalignment of your feet and ankles can throw off the alignment in your knees, hips, and back causing considerable pain and discomfort far away from your feet.
3 Tips for Avoiding Painful Ingrown Toenails
An ingrown toenail is a common and often very painful experience that can make it hard to walk or even to wear shoes.
Put Safety First When Visiting a Nail Salon
When you go to a nail salon for a pedicure, you look forward to bringing home 10 beautifully polished nails. What you probably don’t expect is a foot or toenail problem like a fungal infection.
Gout: A Painful and Preventable Arthritis Attack
Gout is a form of arthritis caused by a build-up of uric acid in your blood.
Pain in the Ball of the Foot May Be Sesamoiditis
Underneath the bone located behind the big toe joint are special bones called the sesamoids. When the sesamoids become inflamed due to overwork or repeated trauma from wearing high heels or shoes that are poorly-fitted, sesamoiditis is the result.
7 Important Tips to Help Prevent Falls
Keeping our balance is important to prevent falls, as is staying active to keep muscles strong and flexible. Here are our top tips to help senior citizens prevent a disabling fall.
Frequent Ankle Sprains May Lead to Chronic Ankle Instability
When multiple ankle sprains are ignored, the joint can become chronically unstable. This condition can cause poor balance and you may even alter your gait to compensate, leading to issues when exercising.
How to Take Care of Your Orthotics
Custom-molded orthotics will comfort and support your feet. As such, they are an investment in your health, and it will pay off to take good care of that investment!
A New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep – Take Good Care of Your Feet
We have a suggestion for a New Year’s resolution that is easy to keep – take care of your feet! Those hard-working feet will carry you for more than 2 million steps in 2020!
Radial Pulse Therapy: Effective Treatment for Achilles Tendonitis
Radial pulse therapy, or RPT, uses a low-to-medium electromagnetic impulse that creates a radial wave. This wave penetrates into the targeted tissue to help break up scar tissue and adhesions that put pressure on the surrounding nerves.
Smart Foot Care for Holiday Shopping and Travel
December is a busy month with lots of shopping, entertaining and traveling. All of these activities take a toll on your feet! No matter which holidays that you celebrate, your feet will have to be up to the challenge.
Top 5 Skin Problems for Your Feet
Our poor aching feet! They have more than their share of skin problems in all seasons. Here are the top 5 foot problems that we routinely see in our office.
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