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What Is a Diabetic Foot Care Plan?
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. If you or someone you love is currently living with a diabetes diagnosis, it’s a great time to take a few moments to reflect on this question: Do you have a diabetic foot care plan? You see, when it comes to...
How Does Diabetes Affect Feet?
How does diabetes affect feet? Diabetes can cause extensive damage and distress throughout the entire body, especially when the disease is not well controlled. Over the long term, consistently high levels of sugar in the blood can contribute to a range of...
Sports Injury Treatment Plans
Sports are fun, and good for long-term happiness and health. They are also, unfortunately, prone to causing aches, pains, and injuries. If you’ve been active for more than a few years—whether you played on a high school team or you just like to run—there’s...
First Aid for Foot and Ankle Sports Injuries
There are few heavier, sinking feelings than the one right after an acute sports injury. The stabbing pain that strikes instantly. The collapse to the ground. The dawning realization that your life might be about to get complicated for the next couple of...
How Do We Treat Child Foot Pain?
When do you go to a mechanic? When your car is old and broken down, right? A lot of people have the same impression about podiatry—that it’s a profession focusing on caring for aging feet. While it’s true that we do that here, adults aren’t the only ones...
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, children's foot problems can often be quite different from the ones more common in...
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...
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...
How Shoes Can Help with Gait Pain
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...