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What Foot Problems Can Kids Have?
If you’re a parent, you already know that even the most well-behaved kids can get into all kinds of trouble from time to time! Unfortunately, so can their feet. Furthermore, the kinds of physical difficulties they can experience in their lower limbs are...
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What’s the Right Way to Cut Toenails?
How hard can it be to cut your toenails? Well, it isn’t. But that doesn’t mean that everyone knows how to do it properly! Taking a little extra time and care to cut your toenails the right way, of course, will certainly keep you looking stylish. More than...
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What to Do About an Ingrown Toenail
At best, an ingrown toenail is a constant source of irritation. As the nail edge digs sideways into the skin, it produces pain, swelling, and tenderness that make themselves known any time you put on a pair of shoes or brush your foot against an object. At...
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How Shoes Can Help with Gait Problems
Your foot goes through a specific, repeatable set of motions each and every time you take a step. Your heel strikes the ground. The full foot makes contact, flattens and pronates outward to bear the load. The heel lifts and you push off with your toes, and...
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How the Way You Walk Can Affect Your Feet
When we’re discussing the way the body is structured and moves, we use the term “biomechanics.” If you break down that word into two parts—bio (“life”) and mechanics (“movement”)—it makes complete sense, especially when we look at how walking affects feet....
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Why Do My Heels Hurt When I Wake Up in the Morning?
The alarm buzzes. The light intrudes, insistently, through the cracks in the blinds. You’re nice and toasty under the blankets, but you can feel the cold of the room on your face. It’s hard enough to drag yourself out of bed in the morning even when your feet feel...
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Best Treatments for Heel Pain
Almost everybody experiences heel pain from time to time—at the end of a long day at work or vacation, for example. But when heel pain becomes chronic, it goes far beyond being a temporary nuisance. In short, it can make life a daily struggle, if not outright...
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What to Do When Your Child Has Heel Pain
For better or worse, we sort of come to expect heel pain as adults. (We shouldn’t, because heel pain is not normal at any age, but we digress.) In fairness, as we age, those years of wear and tear are increasingly likely to catch up to us eventually. When a child has...
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What You Should Know About Children’s Orthotics
Shoe inserts and orthotics are often thought of as treatment options for adults, who already have a few decades of wear and tear on their feet and ankles. However, many of the biomechanical flaws that orthotics correct can be genetically inherited, and appear early in...
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