How Your Golf Swing is Secretly Hurting Your Big Toe
Summer is the perfect time to hit the local links and perfect your drive. However, if you consistently walk off the eighteenth hole with a throbbing, swollen big toe, your footwear is failing you.
Questions and Answers About Ingrown Toenails
What’s an ingrown toenail?With a normal toenail, the nail plate grows up and out beyond the end of the toe. In contrast, an ingrown toenail grows downward and the nail fold, or the frame of the nail, digs into the surrounding soft tissue of the toe. Who gets ingrown toenails?For some, the tendency to have…
Changes in Your Feet May Be Telling You Something
“There is nothing permanent except change,” a wise Greek philosopher once said. Life throws change at us all the time – including physical changes in our body. However, you shouldn’t accept all changes in your feet as normal. Changes in how your feet look, feel, or move can be signs of trouble not only in…
The Pros and Cons of Treating a Bunion
If you’ve got a bunion, chances are you’ve known it for a while. You’ve been watching it over time. Maybe it’s gotten worse, jutting out a little further from the base of your big toe. It didn’t hurt before, but now it’s starting to. You’ve had to make some changes, take something for the pain…
Foot Health Jargon: Cracking the Code
One of the most popular sports in the country has its national championship coming up from May 28 to June 3. There aren’t any balls or sticks involved. No nets, no special footwear. No teams, even. And yet it’s broadcast nationally every year on cable channels ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3. What keeps the big sports…
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