You may realize how your daily habits can impact your feet. As your body’s foundation, what you do, and don’t do regularly, could be causing long-term damage to the structure and function of your lower extremities. While your podiatrist may commonly tell you all the things you should be doing to keep your feet happy and healthy, here are some surprising habits they wish you’d give up.
Optimum overall foot health starts with patient education. By understanding the risks your feet face daily and what you should do if issues arise, you can make a major difference in the treatment and heeling processes for any condition impacting your lower extremities. However, the foot care information you may hear from friends or find online isn’t always accurate. In order to best treat you feet, you need to have all the facts and know what is a myth.
When it comes to your feet, there seems to be an endless amount of reasons you’re in pain. An injury, overuse or a diagnosed condition could be just a few of the causes for your aching feet. As your feet act as your shock absorbers while supporting your body weight during all of life’s activities, it is common to complain of pain. If you’re experiencing new pain for any reason, it is important to address it promptly with a proper diagnosis to prevent your problem from getting worse.
A type of shockwave therapy, EPAT (Extracorporeal Pulse Activation Technology) can treat a number of chronic foot and ankle conditions causing inflammation, including plantar fasciitis, heel pain and Achilles tendinitis. By utilizing acoustic pressure waves which are implemented directly on the site of your injury or pain, EPAT breaks up any remaining scar tissue and reduces inflammation that has not previously responded to other treatment options. Additionally, this type of therapy promotes healing within a patient’s own body, speeding up the recovery process.
Dr. Kyle Kinmon, one of the founding physicians of Certified Foot and Ankle Specialists, was able to successfully revise a previous ankle replacement surgery. For the procedure, which is the first of it’s kind to restore function, Dr. Kinmon constructed a custom talus component to replace the damaged joint in the patinet’s ankle. Since the surgery, the patient reports that he has no remaining pain
The Certified Foot and Ankle Specialists was the first practice to offer patients a new, state-of-the-art option for diagnosing foot and ankle conditions: the pedCAT™. This compact machine generates standard X-rays and full CT scans in less than 60 seconds, reducing the time it takes to diagnose your condition and implement a treatment plan to get you back on your feet.
Whoever said diamonds were a girl’s best friend, clearly never saw a woman’s shoe collection. A poll by TIME found that on average, men own 12 pairs of shoes while the opposite sex more than doubles that number with the typical closets of most American adult women boasting 27 pairs of shoes. It’s a stereotype for a reason; women love and know a lot about shoes – and they can find almost any reason to go shoe shopping to buy a new pair.