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What Causes Calcaneal Spur

Overview In the setting of plantar fasciitis, heel spurs are most often seen in middle-aged men and women, but can be found in all age groups. The heel spur itself is not thought to be the primary cause of pain, rather inflammation and irr…

Bursitis Of The Foot Surgical Procedures

Overview A bursa is a closed, fluid-filled sac that functions as a cushion and gliding surface to reduce friction between tissues of the body. The major bursae are located adjacent to the tendons near the large joints, such as in the shoul…

Hammer Toe Repair Without Surgery

Overview A hammertoe is a toe that's curled due to a bend in the middle joint of a toe. Mallet toe is similar, but affects the upper joint of a toe. Otherwise, any differences between Hammer toe and mallet toe are subtle. Both hammertoe an…

Will Overpronation Have To Have Surgical Procedures

Overview Overpronation and underpronation describe general foot movements. These terms do not necessarily describe a medical problem with a foot. For example, you can overpronate and not have any problems or symptoms at all. It is importan…

Severs Disease Rehab

Overview Sever's disease, also known as calcaneal apophysitis, is a medical condition that causes heel pain in one or both feet of children during the period when their feet are growing. Sever's disease occurs most commonly in boys and gir…

Tibial Posterior Tendon Dysfunction Symptoms

Overview Most flat feet are not painful, particularly those flat feet seen in children. In the adult acquired flatfoot, pain occurs because soft tissues (tendons and ligaments) have been torn. The deformity progresses or worsens because on…

Heel Pain The Causes, Symptoms And Therapy Choices

Overview Heel pain is a very common condition treated in our podiatric office. Patients come in complaining of pain to the bottom of their heel, sometimes radiating into the arch area and are seeking effective treatment. Dr. Weinert often …

What Might Cause Achilles Tendinitis ?

Overview Achilles tendonitis (tendinitis), is a painful and often debilitating inflammation of the Achilles tendon than can progress into degeneration which we call Achilles Tendinosis. The Achilles tendon is the largest and strongest tend…

What Is Heel Pain And Techniques To Treat It

Overview Plantar Fasciitis is the most common condition of heel pain. This condition occurs when the long fibrous plantar fascia ligament along the bottom of the foot develops tears in the tissue resulting in pain and inflammation. The pai…

What Leads To Painful Heel To Appear

Overview Plantar fasciitis: Inflammation of the plantar fascia, the bowstring-like tissue that stretches from the heel bone to the base of the toes. Plantar fasciitis can be due to calcaneal spurs, which typically cause localized tendernes…

What Is Painful Heel And Simple Methods To Alleviate It

Overview Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain. The plantar fascia camera.gif is the flat band of tissue (ligament) that connects your heel bone to your toes. It supports the arch of your foot. If you strain your plantar …

What Is Pain In The Heel

Overview Plantar fasciitis is that pain in the bottom of your foot usually in the heel. That pain hurts especially with the first few steps in the morning as you get out of bed. This strange name comes from: "Plantar" means something that …

Treatment For Chronic Ankle Pain

Pain across the bottom of the foot at any point between the heel and the ball of the foot is often referred to as "arch pain” Although this description is non-specific, most arch pain is due to strain or inflammation Contracted Toe of the …

How You Should Look After Bunions

Hallux valgus is a disorder of the foot in which the hallux or great toe is deflected laterally towards the other or lesser toes, often causing a bony prominence to develop over the medial aspect of the metatarsal head and neck. A bunion i…

What Every Vibrant Woman Should Know

Hammer toe is thought to develop (this is only 1 way it can form and not the sole reason. Footwear is actually the leading cause of this type of toe deformity so much so that people sometimes require hammer toe surgery to undo some of the …

Achilles Tendonitis

Overview Achilles tendinitis is an inflammation (swelling) of the tendon, which usually occurs as a result of overuse injury. Anyone can have Achilles tendonitis. Athletics involving frequent jumping is the classic cause, but certainly not…

How To Repair A Wood Floorboard

Are your toes curling and rubbing against your shoe or each other? Hammer toes are caused by deformities in the joints that give them the appearance of hammers, mallets or claws. All are caused by a muscle imbalance of small muscles within…

Bunions And Hammer Toes

First, use a non-soap anti-bacterial cleanser as your ONLY foot cleanser to cleanse away skin bacteria. When your feet are clean you will do much to keep harmful germs that cause infections and odors away! And don't forget to dry feet care…

Plantar Fasciitis Night Splint

You should be able to fix the heel pain pretty quickly. I have heard of people having amazing results in less than a week. It all depends on many factors though. What I do know is that plantar fasciitis is NOT an incurable disease, and if …

Diabetic Foot Pain Cure

There may well be a whole host of different detoxing products but one of the ulitmate methods of ridding your body of toxins is simply to exercise. It doesn't matter whether you are exercising using expensive gym equipment or exercising ou…

Ten Important Foot Facts For 2010

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Scott & White Healthcare Community

When the heel of a foot strikes the ground, the foot rolls inward which is referred to as 'Pronation', by health professionals. At the same time the arch of the foot flattens a bit to absorb the shock of the impact. It is an action which i…

What To Look For In A Walking Shoe

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