by Dr. Robert J. Spencer | Oct 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Dr. Robert J. Spencer | Sep 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dr. Robert J. Spencer | Aug 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dr. Robert J. Spencer | Jul 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dr. Robert J. Spencer | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dr. Robert J. Spencer | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
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,...