Foot & Ankle Blog
Treating Forefoot Adduction in Children
There are many different terms that describe various specific misalignments in a child’s feet, such as clubfoot and skewfoot. Forefoot adduction tends to be a bit simpler and more general of a term, and is among the most common symptoms that can be noted at birth....
Answers to Questions on Skewfoot
At Southern California Foot & Ankle Specialists, we are highly committed to helping children and their families through the journey of managing and correcting congenital birth defects and deformities. While clubfoot receives particular focus, there are many other...
How Long Does Clubfoot Treatment Take?
When a parent learns their child will require clubfoot treatment, one of the first questions they always ask how long that treatment will take. This is of course a very natural question to ask. No parent wishes for their child to spend more time undergoing treatment...
Your Child Has Been Diagnosed with Clubfoot Before Birth – What You Can Do
No parent ever wants to hear anything at a prenatal examination other than that their child is perfectly healthy. If a prenatal examination has determined that your child likely has clubfoot, it can open a floodgate of fears and distress. It is completely normal and...
How to Tell When Your Ankle is Broken (and What to Do if It Is)
It’s not a question anyone ever wants to ask, but it’s the only thing you can think about when the situation presents itself: Did I just break my ankle? Our ankles endure plenty of forces just in day-to-day activities, and chances are decent that you’ll end up with an...
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...