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The Best Way To Treat Fallen Arches

OverviewWhen sitting, an over-pronating foot appears quite normal, i.e. showing a normal arch with room under the underside of the foot. The moment you get up and put weight on your feet the situation changes: the arches lower and the ankl…

Child Leg Length Discrepancy Treatment

OverviewSurgeries for LLD are designed to do one of three general things ? shorten the long leg, stop or slow the growth of the longer or more rapidly growing leg, or lengthen the short leg. Stopping the growth of the longer leg is the mos…

Heel Aches

OverviewThe heel is a cushion of fatty tissue that protects the structures of the foot, including the heel bone, muscles and ligaments. Heel pain is a common foot complaint. Complications include plantar fasciitis and heel spurs. Sever's d…

What Is Mortons Neuroma

OverviewMorton's neuroma is an inflammation of the nerves in the foot that go to the toes. Although the name includes the word ?neuroma,? it is not really a tumor. It can affect any of the toes in the foot. However, it most often affects t…

Leg Length Discrepancy And Shoe Lifts

There are actually two different kinds of leg length discrepancies, congenital and acquired. Congenital indicates that you are born with it. One leg is anatomically shorter than the other. Through developmental phases of aging, the human b…

What Is A Posterior Calcaneal Spur

Overview If you suffer from heel pain, you know that it affects every step you take. And by the time you take off your shoes in the evening, your feet are really suffering. The pain you?re feeling could be caused by heel bone spurs. Heel b…

Dealing With Posterior Calcaneal Spur

Overview A heel spur is a hook of bone that can form on the heel bone of the foot. Heel spurs are associated with plantar fasciitis. Heel spurs can cause extreme pain in the rearfoot. The pain is most intense while standing or walking. Wha…

How To Treat Bursitis Of The Foot

Overview In your heel, there is a sac filled with fluid known as a bursa. It is located under your Achilles tendon at the back of your heel bone. Many of your large joints have a bursa around them. They provide cushioning and lubrication f…

Hammer Toes What Causes Them

Overview A hammertoe is a toe that is bent because of a muscle imbalance around the toe joints. The imbalance causes the toe to bend at one or more joints, pushing the middle of the toe upward in a claw-like position. If you notice such ch…

Non Surgical Hammer Toe Repair

Overview A hammertoes is a term that is commonly used to describe any type of toe deformity. It is a common problem that may or may not be a problem. What does a hammer toe look like? In a hammertoe the deformity usually exists in one toe …

Bunions Treatment Natural

Overview A bunion, or Hallux Valgus, is a foot deformity characterised by deviation of the bones around the big toe joint of the foot. As a result, there is a large exostosis or bony lump on the inside of the foot and the toe is pointed ac…

Is Overpronation

Overview Over pronation is when there is excessive or too much movement of the foot. Over pronation is a very common cause of heel pain and general pain throughout the lower extremities. This condition can often be referred to as flat feet…

What Is Severs Disease?

Overview Sever?s disease (also known as calcaneal apophysitis) is a type of bone injury in which the growth plate in the lower back of the heel, where the Achilles tendon (the heel cord that attaches to the growth plate) attaches, becomes …

What Is The Cause Of Adult Aquired Flat Foot

Overview Over 60 Million Americans suffer from Adult Acquired Flatfoot (AAF), otherwise known as Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction or PTTD. This condition generally occurs in adults from 40-65 years of age, and it usually only occurs in …

Flat Feet In Adults

Overview Adult acquired flatfoot deformity (AAFD or AAF) is a progressive, symptomatic deformity resulting from gradual stretch of the posterior tibial tendon as well as other ligaments supporting the arch of the foot. AAFD develops after …

Coping With Achilles Tendinitis

Overview Your Achilles tendon is located at the back of your foot, just above your heel. It connects your heel to the two muscles of your calf and helps your foot push forward every time you take a step. If the tendon becomes swollen or ir…

What Exactly Causes Pain In The Heel

Overview Do you have sharp, stabbing, and/or aching pain on the bottom of your heel or arch? Is the pain more severe when you first get up in the morning or when you first start walking after rest? If this describes your pain then you prob…

What Is Pain At The Heel And Tips On How To Cure It

Overview The Plantar Fascia is a broad, thick band of tissue that runs from under the heel to the front of the foot. Through overuse the fascia can become inflamed and painful at its attachment to the heel bone or calcaneus. The condition …

What Can Cause Heel Pain

Overview Plantar fasciitis is a common and often persistent kind of repetitive strain injury afflicting runners, walkers and hikers, and nearly anyone who stands for a living - cashiers, for instance. It causes mainly foot arch pain and/or…

What Is Heel Pain And The Right Way To Eliminate It

Overview Plantar fasciosis is pain at the site of the attachment of the plantar fascia and the calcaneus (calcaneal enthesopathy), with or without accompanying pain along the medial band of the plantar fascia. Diagnosis is mainly clinical.…

Symptoms Of Compartment Syndrome

The causes of lip swelling could range from trauma and contact dermatitis to allergic reactions to certain medical conditions. I am a 44 year old Pe teacher who has been experiencing Plantar Fasciitis since October. Vinegar has been used a…

The Bane Of Bunions

Podiatry is a discipline, allied to medicine that uses scientific evidence-based therapies to treat most conditions affecting the feet and lower limbs. Your toes are a part of your body that may suffer too. You will probably wear a bandage…

How To Treat Common Foot Problems Corns, Bunions, Ingrown Toenails And More

Fill a medium sized basin with enough warm water to cover at least to the ankles. The basin should be large enough so that the entire foot can rest comfortably on the bottom. Be aware that persons with certain medical conditions such as di…

Symptoms And Treatment Of Fallen Arches

There are many factors that will affect a figure skater's ability to perform jumps, spins, and various moves with correct technique. One would consider lack of muscle strength or flexibility, poor coordination, lack of sound technique, or …

Heel Pain Treatment For Achilles Tendonitis And Plantar Fasciitis

We have a love-hate relationship (okay, mostly love) with our high heels. We love how long and lean they make our legs look, and we go weak in the knees for impossible-to-walk-in stunners. That said, we’re not the happiest of campers when …

How To Run With Heel Spurs

To treat plantar fasciitis and mechanical overload you need to rest and ice the arch of your foot. Although stretching will be painful and cause burning, stretching is an important part of recovery. For plantar fasciitis, taping the foot i…

Affecting Your Life And Work

A medical diagnosis might not exactly suggest that surgical procedures are the best choice for your lower back pain without having attempting other sorts of remedies initially. In case you have a herniated disk, spinal stenosis, spinal ver…