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Custom orthotics are built around the contours and functioning of your feet. Unlike over-the-counter shoe inserts, custom orthotics are made with you in mind. There are signs that you might benefit from a custom orthotic fitting.

If you suspect that your heel pain is due to plantar fasciitis, there’s a good chance you’re correct, since it’s the most common cause of pain at the bottom of your heel, affecting more than 2 million people in the country every year.

While most neuromas are benign tumors that grow on nerve tissue, Morton’s neuroma is a thickening of certain nerves of the feet. Sensations range from a feeling of a pebble in your shoe to burning pain with your foot under pressure.

Gout can strike any joint, but it’s most common in a big toe. While medications can treat the causes and symptoms of this form of inflammatory arthritis, lifestyle changes also play an important role in reducing future attacks. 

Strong recovery from an ankle sprain helps you avoid ankle instability and further injuries in the future. Healing from a sprain requires rest, support, and strengthening of the muscles that stabilize ankle ligaments. 

Autonomic, motor, and sensory nerves can all suffer from neuropathy, resulting in a wide range of effects and symptoms. The most common place for observable neuropathy symptoms is in the feet, with diabetes being the most frequent cause of damage. 

The Achilles tendon connects the calf muscle to the heel bone. An Achilles tendon rupture partially or completely tears the tough tendon tissue during an overstretching event. Recovery after a rupture is necessary but long.

Should you worry if your child is a toe walker? The answer is usually “probably not,” but there are some rare exceptions. Most children outgrow the habit by the time they reach their second birthday.

The sensation that you have a pebble in your shoe may result from, not surprisingly, a foreign object working its way inside your footwear. However, some foot conditions produce similar sensations without the presence of a stone or other object. 

If you’re a weekend warrior, taking care of your feet might be the best way to keep active at the game as well as at home and work. Sports can increase the challenges of foot health. Here are some self-care hacks you should know. 

Overstretched ankle ligaments need to fully recover to resist further sprain injuries in the future. Preventing ankle instability requires care during recovery, ranging from conservative treatment to surgical repair.

With 26 bones in each foot, you have potentially 52 places to suffer from a foot fracture. It’s not always easy to recognize minor injuries as fractures, while serious fractures could require extensive surgery to stabilize.

You might not think of feet as a main location for arthritis, at least not until they start to affect you. However, there are both general and specific ways that arthritis can affect your feet — medical issues that can slow you down without treatment.

Given the important role the Achilles tendon plays in movement, it’s obvious that tendon pain can impact your day. In many cases, rest and conservative care can get you back on your feet — literally — without discomfort or pain.

Children’s health issues are sometimes hard to recognize. This is true for many foot problems, and it may be up to you as a parent to recognize warning signs that your child’s feet aren’t developing properly.

There’s a very good reason why a gout attack feels as though you have sharp shards of crystal embedded in your big toe — and it’s because you do. Uric acid is a substance that forms these crystals when your body becomes saturated.

A non-cancerous growth made of nerve tissue, neuromas can develop anywhere in the body. Morton’s neuroma is the most common, and it usually occurs between the third and fourth toes. Let’s look at how you can minimize your risk.

Usually affecting the big toe, ingrown toenails develop in the skin at the side or corner of a toenail. Your ingrown nails likely won’t clear up without treatment, and they can get much worse when you ignore the care they need.

Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain, and that pain can be sharp and severe. Doctors don’t always understand the causes, but there are treatments to ease the pain.

Diabetes can be hard on your feet: Both nerves and blood vessels suffer from the effects of high blood sugar. Compromised blood supply, along with an inability to feel ulcers when they form, adds up to a potential health threat to your feet.

The human papillomavirus (HPV) causes plantar warts that form on the balls and heels of your feet. HPV enters your feet through cracks and cuts before forming warts that can be tender or painful, but otherwise not serious.

A result of an excess of certain chemicals in your body, gout is a painful form of arthritis that most commonly strikes your foot or ankle, though it can sometimes affect other joints. Fortunately, gout is easy to treat. 

Warts on your feet can be hard, thick, and painful. They can bleed and make it difficult to walk. They may become a problem if you have nerve damage in your feet, since they can develop without you knowing.

The right running shoe often comes down to your personal choice. The shoe that feels great for you, day in and day out, while guarding you from injury and irritation and supporting your stride, is the right one — though it may not be easy to find.

While you might associate visiting a podiatrist as part of an adult’s health care regimen, children’s feet need attention too. Taking care of your child’s feet at home may help put off specialist podiatry services until they’re older.

A toe with an abnormal bend in its middle joint, hammertoe can be painful — and make shoe shopping more difficult. Other foot disorders like corns and calluses can exacerbate the problem. Learn how we can help.

While it’s easy to catch a toenail fungus, clearing it up is a slow process that needs your prolonged attention. Chances are, your condition won’t clear up without medication and consistent application over a period of months.

The damage caused by diabetes ravages through your body. High blood sugar takes a toll on both blood vessels and nerve tissue. Because your feet are at the end of the line, they suffer comparatively more from elevated glucose levels.

When it comes to foot problems, plantar warts aren’t a serious problem unless they cause discomfort or pain. Caused by a viral infection, these warts often form where your foot experiences the greatest pressure, making the pain worse.

You’re born with flat feet, and most people develop arches by the time they’re 6 years old. Some people never form arches, or their arches may collapse later in life. Flat feet can lead to pain and gait changes, but in many cases, they produce no symptoms.

Running is a great way to stay active, but it can take a toll on your feet, particularly if you’re a distance runner. You’ve likely already got a collection of foot health habits. Here’s what you should know about your foot health.

It doesn’t matter how old you are or at what level you play. Sprained ankles are the most common reason for missing out on sports participation. While you may be eager to get back in the game, playing through a sprained ankle is a bad idea.

Nerves in your feet can develop a thick encasement of tissue in response to injury or irritation. Called a neuroma, the condition can cause chronic discomfort or pain that interferes with the normal movement of your feet.

The most common form of inflammatory arthritis, gout occurs in men at a much higher rate than in women. While it’s easy to treat, gout episodes start quickly and feature intense pain as a symptom. The joint of the big toe is most often affected.

A sprained ankle can be painful with a lengthy recovery time. Plus, if it doesn’t heal completely, it can lead to further ankle injuries and runs the risk of becoming a chronic instability. Both conservative and surgical treatments are possible.

Everything changes come the summer. It’s time to get outside, go to the beach, enjoy the weather, and most of all get active. Sometimes this means your feet pay the price. Here are five common summertime foot injuries you can sidestep this year.

Arthritis in your big toe may not sound like a problem on par with knee or hip issues, but since the big toe must bend with every step you take, it’s potentially a painful condition that can seriously impair your ability to move.

Sandal season is upon us. If toenail fungus has you worrying about the summer, it’s time to explore convenient, comfortable laser treatment.

“The feet are prime real estate for arthritis,” says Doug Tumen, DPM, board-certified podiatrist, author of Ask The Foot Doctor, and a founding partner of Hudson Valley Foot Associates. Each foot has 26 bones and 33 joints...

“Compression socks work by applying a constant pressure to the ankle and calf area,” explains Dr. Doug Tumen, a podiatrist at Hudson Valley Foot Associates in Kingston, New York, and the author of Ask the Foot Doctor:...

If you follow any professional sport that involves running, you are likely to hear of a player who is suffering from tendonitis. But, what is it? And, do you have it? All muscles of your extremities (arms, legs, hands, feet, etc.) have tendons.

America is exercise crazy! We Zumba, yoga, hip-hop, box, triathalon, boot camp, and sweat-to-the oldies. But one of the easiest, most inexpensive and enjoyable exercise forms is walking. It’s a great way to lose weight, stay fit,and enjoy life.

What is the largest bone in the foot? Right…your heel bone, also known as the calcaneus. It absorbs all of your body’s weight each time you take a step, run or jump. So, is it any wonder that one of the most common foot ailments people have is heel pain?