10 Easy Ways to Prevent Foot Pain
Various factors, such as improper shoes, excessive use, and health conditions, can contribute to foot pain. Learn from Desert Podiatry about a few easy ways you can prevent foot pain.
5 Signs It’s Time for New Orthotics
Orthotics are medically prescribed items worn inside shoes to correct structural foot disorders that cause limited mobility. Foot orthotics have significant benefits for individuals with different foot conditions. While fresh new orthotics can alleviate a wide range of foot problems, keeping old orthotics might have a number of negative consequences that you may be unaware…
Packing for College: A Podiatrist’s List
For a high school graduate who is planning to attend college, a trade school, or even military training, there is a packing list in your future. Do you know where to start? Of course, you know the obvious things about wardrobe, school supplies, etc. What about your feet? We want you to consider how you…
Walking with the Right Shoes
Are we talking enough about the benefits of walking? We think we can say a bit more. As people create an exercise plan, they often consider high-impact exercises. Without preparation, these exercises can feel intimidating and may even lead to an injury. Walking briskly and consistently also has health benefits, including your foot health. How…
The Right Size and Diabetes
For patients who have diabetes, wearing the wrong size can cause serious problems. From shoes that are too tight or too loose, there are a few complications that our doctors commonly see. What can help? Work with a shoe salesperson. They often use a tool known as the Brannock Device. Charles Brannock receives credit for his invention…
When Heel Spurs Strike Your Feet
A heel spur is a condition that has been created by a growth that feels bony. In other cases, it can be called a calcium deposit. It will extend between your arch and heel bone, causing heel pain and inflammation. Usually starting in the heel alone, it spreads to the other parts of your foot….
3 Ways to Treat Bunions & Avoid Surgery
A bunion is a painful disorder of the big toe that causes the toe to push into the other toes, with a large bump forming on the top or side of the big toe in the process. Bunion complications tend to develop slowly which is why many people avoid dealing with them until they become harder to…
4 Ways to Treat Hammertoes
The hammertoe deformity results from a tendon and muscle imbalance in the toes. While the tendency for developing hammertoes is often inherited, they are often made worse by wearing tight-fitting shoes like high heels. Complications from arthritis and toe fractures can also lead to hammertoes. Hammertoes tend to worsen over time and don’t generally get better all by themselves. Make…
Use Orthotic Inserts and Balance Braces to Prevent Falls
September is Falls Prevention Awareness Month and an excellent way to improve balance and prevent falls. Properly fitted footwear and the proper placement of custom orthotic inserts and ankle balance braces are great preventative tools. Contact our team of board-certified podiatrists for help with gait analysis, shoe choice, and orthotic inserts. Orthotic and brace advantages: ● Fall prevention—When you…
4 Ways to Treat Painful Bunions
A bunion toe deformity is one of the most common problems treated by podiatrists. Although hereditary influence plays a major role in bunion development, shoes are often to blame. Wearing tight-fitting shoes like high heels or pointy boots will push the toes together and increase the development of bunions, hammertoes, and other toe and foot…
3 Essential Foot Care Tips for Patients With Diabetes
One of the major complications of having diabetes is the peripheral nerve damage that can cause numbness in the feet and allow dangerous infections to spread, especially when combined with a decreased immune response and poor blood circulation. Essential diabetic foot care tips include, keeping your feet as clean and dry as possible, and seeing…
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.
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!
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