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,...
by Dr. Robert J. Spencer | Feb 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dr. Robert J. Spencer | Dec 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
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,...
