Foot & Ankle Blog
How to Handle Sports Injuries in the Heel
When people think of sports injuries to the foot, the heel might not be the first area of vulnerability they imagine. After all, it’s the toes and the front of the foot that are often leading the charge and colliding with objects, right? But sports injuries to the...
Treating Nerve Pain in the Foot and Ankle
When you ask someone with nerve pain to describe what they feel, you might receive any number of possible answers: It’s stabbing. It’s shooting. It’s burning. It’s tingling or numbing. It’s electric. There can be quite a range of symptoms, but it should come as...
What to Do (and Not Do) When Chronic Heel Pain Persists
Heel pain is a very common condition, affecting millions of Americans. But that doesn’t mean you need to keep living day-to-day with your symptoms. If you have been struggling with heel pain for months or even years, though, it might feel like you don’t really have...
At-Home Foot and Ankle Stretches (You Can Even Get Your Family Into!)
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown so many of our normal routines into disarray, but the truth is that it doesn’t always take something so wide-sweeping to affect our lives. Changes in family, career, and circumstances can all cause you to spend more time at home than...
When Your Child Has Heel Pain
Heel pain does not seem like something a child would have—at least not to a grown-up. Heel pain feels much more like an “adult” sort of problem, something that comes with age and wear and having to work all day. That’s likely just some elder envy showing, however....
Resources for a Clubfoot Parent: Information and Support
Learning that your child has clubfoot can be devastating. Every parent worries for their child’s health and well-being, and that starts well before they are born. To receive the news of clubfoot during a prenatal examination or to learn of it upon birth can open a...
How to Keep Stress Fractures from Ruining Your Routines
Everyone knows that a standard fracture can put a quick stop to just about any show, and it is rarely something you can avoid. Nobody ever expects taking a hit forceful enough to cause a bone to break. That said, there is a type of fracture that can also cause plenty...
A Simple Guide to Foot and Ankle Reconstructive Surgery
The term “surgery” can already cause a pang of anxiety in many people, and we completely understand why. Surgery can be a life-changing event—although the goal is to change life for the better—and is something to always approach seriously. Of course, adding words...
Common Foot & Ankle Sports Injuries: Sport by Sport
A wide world of sports exists, with so many opportunities to have fun and strive for personal improvement. Unfortunately, that also leaves a wide world of potential sports injuries to befall someone. Now, the risk of a foot or ankle injury should not, in itself, be a...