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...

Having Pain in the Ball of Your Feet? Maybe it’s a Morton’s Neuroma

One of the most common foot and ankle complaints I see in my patients is pain in the ball of their foot. The feeling of your sock wrinkled, or something in your shoe? Maybe an uncommon burning or tingling in your toes? You could have experienced an increased pain while...

Sever’s Disease – Try Stretching to combat the growth plate inflammation!

What can you do if your child complains about heel pain? Sever’s disease is a problem that afflicts many active children worldwide 1. Sever’s Disease is when the growth plate on your heel bone becomes inflamed and swollen, causing pain. Another name for this condition is calcaneal apophysitis. Typically, active...

Toenail Discoloration, Its Causes and Treatment Options

Are You Annoyed with Toenail Discoloration? Should You Worry and What Can You Do? Toenail discoloration is a common concern for many patients, and the most common complaint is yellow discoloration. The yellow discoloration can present itself in different forms. The nail itself may be discolored on the end of...

The Advantage of Choosing a Podiatry Clinic With It’s Own Surgical Center

Teamwork, Savings, And Great service – Why It All Really Matters! When you’re needing surgery for your foot problems, having a surgical center within the clinic gives you an advantage. When non-surgical options such as physical therapy fail to give relief of your foot or ankle problems, surgery may become...

Plantar Fasciitis : Stabbing Pain in Heel of Foot

Stabbing heel pain is one of the most common foot complaints. There can be a multitude of reasons for such pain, but the most frequent cause is plantar fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis is a name most are familiar with. However, in this blog, you will see me use the proper name,...

Sural Nerve Pain: Causes, Symptoms, and Effective Treatments

Don’t be Fooled! Sural nerve pain is a common problem that is overlooked or misdiagnosed by doctors. Your lower extremity, such as your back, can be a common guess for the source of your pain. Typically, this is not the case for most, and it’s important to investigate further for...

Effective Treatments for Drop Foot: Options and Solutions

Is the common peroneal nerve the solution for you? In all diagnoses of drop foot, we must first define the signs, symptoms and causes. Drop foot is a disorder that most commonly creates problems while walking. A correlated symptom is difficulty pulling your foot up towards you off the ground...

Suffering from Nerve Pain In Your Legs at Night? Find Out Why!

Unfortunately, most people reading this may experience poor sleep due to nerve pain. Difficulty falling asleep, poor sleep quality, exhaustion; these can all be factors of nerve pain at night. Not to mention the anxiousness of thinking what you’ll do the next night. Many individuals experience the pain all the...

Are diabetes and Restless Legs connected?

What do Restless Legs and Diabetes have in common? Other than that they both affect hundreds of millions of people, Restless Legs and Diabetes are commonly linked together. In this blog, we will cite excerpts from our peer-reviewed research, and dive into how these two diagnoses are connected, and reversed....