The kids are back in school, and along with freshly sharpened pencils and homework come sports. Whether your child is on the football team, the middle school cheerleading squad or plays basketball in the driveway after school, it’s important to watch out for the health of their feet to avoid injury and discomfort. Here are five tips for keeping your teen athlete’s feet healthy.
Ingrown toenails can get really painful, really fast. So much so, that I know many patients will avoid calling Lexington Podiatry because they fear the treatment will be even worse. But I’m here to assure you that it’s not. In...
Have you seen these “toe sneakers” that seem to be everywhere? They’re a cross between running shoes and gloves, and remind me of those silly striped socks we used to wear as kids.
This antifungal foot soak treatment helps to get rid of any type of foot fungus. This includes the more common athletes foot, which can be a serious problem for diabetics.
Want to make a simple, ten-second check on the state of your health? Sneak a peek at your feet. "You can detect everything from diabetes to nutritional deficiencies just by examining the feet," says Jane Andersen, DPM, president of the American...
A human foot & ankle is a strong, mechanical structure that contain 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 muscles, tendons & ligaments. The 52 bones in your feet make up one quarter of all the bones in your body...
Already all sensation had gone out of his feet. So long as he walked four miles an hour, he pumped that blood, willy-nilly, to the surface; but now it ebbed away and sank down into the recesses of his body.
When was the last time you thought seriously about your feet? How high are your arches? Would you consider your feet wide? Narrow? When was the last time you tried on a shoe in a different size? It can be easy..
EVER FEEL LIKE ONE OF CINDERELLA'S STEPSISTERS TRYING TO CRAM YOUR foot into an impossibly-shaped slipper? Luckily there is no need to chop off your toes or heel—a la the original Grimm fairytale—in order to make the shoe fit. But that...
