What You Should Know About Toddlers and Children’s Foot Growth!

Your feet are an important part of the human body. They allow you to walk, run, and jump.

Laser Fungal Toenail Removal! Is It Really Effective As A Long Term Treatment Option?

Podiatrists Recommend Laser Removal as the best treatment option! Fungal nails and onychomycotic nails are a common concern, and impact more than 20 percent of people overall. They are common in 75 percent of the senior population, but for most the problem is not a painful one but rather, an...

Medicine Is Missing The Boat In Detecting Prediabetic Neuropathy. What Can You Do?

Diabetes is becoming more common worldwide. It is known that the number of people with diabetes is soaring. Countries where diabetes used to be rare such as China are seeing a significant increase. Why is that? Many experts would agree it’s the increase in spread of the American diet worldwide...

Do You Have Feet Neuropathy Symptoms? There Is Hope To Reverse The Symptoms!

If you visit a peripheral nerve surgeon, many will notice that we take the time to do a very thorough lower extremity examination. Most doctors are poorly trained in the evaluation of the lower extremity peripheral nervous system.

What You Need to Know If You’ve Been Told You Have Idiopathic Neuropathy?

Idiopathic Neuropathy Idiopathic neuropathy has similar symptoms to diabetic neuropathy. However, the word idiopathic means that there is no known cause. The sensory nerves can be affected, causing burning, numbness and tingling. Also, the motor nerves may be involved causing weakness oftentimes presenting as drop foot. The autonomic nervous system...

Jumpy Leg Syndrome Is Irreversible Right? Wrong! Learn Why It’s Reversible!

Jumpy leg syndrome is often referred to as Restless legs or Willis Ekbom Disease. It afflicts approximately 10 percent of the entire population. It is also thought to run in families – genetically, those with 50 percent of family members suffering from RLS will have someone else in their family...

Is Your Painful Nail a Toenail Staph Infection? What You Should Know!

Ingrown nails are one of the most common problems that podiatrists treat. Oftentimes not only is the nail hurting, but there can be a toenail staph infection accompanying the problem. This problem can occur for anyone, but there can be additional risk when there is lack of blood flow to...

Knowing Why Bone Heel Spur Treatment Is Treatment Of Your Fascia, Not The Spur!

A common foot complaint you ask? How about heel pain? Most commonly felt on the bottom of your heel bone, it can be pain experienced when you first get up in the morning. For most, this is how it starts. However, after a few minutes, the pain subsides. You think...

Foot Soak for Toenail Fungus Options As Home Remedies – Do They Work?

Fungal nail infection is all around us, so it's hard to avoid, but foot soaks for toenail fungus can help. Toenail fungus is a very common foot complaint. It is thought that by the age of 80, a high percentage of patients will have had this problem.

Sports Injuries of the Foot and Ankle

How to deal with foot and ankle surgeries? When it comes to sports injuries, your foot and ankle are areas at highest risk of injury. Within sports themselves, injuries are common. A foot or ankle injury could result from the repetitive stress of running on hard surfaces, or from the...