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Pes Planus What You Should Expect

OverviewFlat feet can lead to extreme stress or inflammation of the plantar fascia, possibly causing severe discomfort and leading to other foot problems. Without properly supported arches, simple movement can pull your body out of alignme…

Understanding Heel Discomfort

OverviewHeel pain is a very challenging problem as it can be local and/or referred. It has been more prevalent recently due to the hard grounds on which people have to run. Commonly people will present with heel pain, thrusting an x-ray at…

True And Apparent Leg Length Discrepancy

OverviewLeg length discrepancy is a condition where the length of one leg is different than the other (shorter or longer) because of either or both a functional (muscle/posture) or structural (bone/cartilage) abnormality. In the specific a…

Combating Mortons Neuroma

OverviewMorton's Neuroma is the most common neuroma in the foot. It occurs in the forefoot area (the ball of the foot) at the base of the third and fourth toes. It is sometimes referred to as an intermetatarsal neuroma. "Intermetatarsal" d…

What Are The Signs And Symptoms Of Calcaneal Spur

Overview Heel spurs are usually under the heel and are generally caused by excessive forces acting on the bone. By far the most common cause of heel spurs is abnormal biomechanics - often the same biomechanics that cause plantar fasciitis.…

What Are The Key Causes Of Inferior Calcaneal Spur

Overview Heel spur is a thorn-like, bony protrusion of the heel bone, which can become inflamed through irritation, thus causing pain. A heel spur forms at the tendon attachments on the muscles of the heel bone as a result of micro-injurie…

Tips On How To Treat Bursitis Of The Foot

Overview Retrocalcaneal bursitis is the inflammation of the fluid-filled sac (bursa) at the back of the heel bone (calcaneus). The retrocalcaneal bursa is located between the Achilles tendon and the heel bone and is designed to reduce fric…

Hammer Toes Natural Treatment

Overview Hammer toe is a painful deformity wherein a toe bends unnaturally. Hammertoe can develop on any of the toes, but generally affects the middle three and, most often, the second toe. When unusual stress is applied over a period of y…

Hammer Toe Pain Symptoms

Overview There are two main types of hammertoes. Hammertoes can be flexible, which means that you can still move the toe a bit - these are easier to treat with stretching, wider shoes and in some cases, toe splints. Rigid hammertoes occur …

Overpronation Ache

Overview If the inner side of your shoes are especially worn, you could be overpronating. Excessive inward roll of the foot after landing, such that the foot continues to roll when it should be pushing off. This twists the foot, shin and k…

What Exactly Is Severs Disease?

Overview Sever's disease is a pain that occurs in the back of the heel of physically active children at around the time of puberty. Sever's disease occurs due to an inflammation of the growth plate due to excessive pull of the achilles ten…

The Cause And Treatment For Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction (PTTD)

Overview Flatfoot may sound like a characteristic of a certain water animal rather than a human problem. Flatfoot is a condition in which the arch of the foot is fallen and the foot is pointed outward. In contrast to a flatfoot condition t…

The Treatments And Causes

Overview A variety of foot problems can lead to adult acquired flatfoot deformity (AAFD), a condition that results in a fallen arch with the foot pointed outward. Most people - no matter what the cause of their flatfoot - can be helped wit…

What Could I Do About Achilles Tendonitis ?

Overview Achilles tendonitis is a condition wherein the Achilles tendon, at or near its insertion to back of the heel, becomes inflamed and causes pain. The Achilles tendon is one of the longest and strongest tendons in the body. It is ava…

What Is Plantar Fasciitis

Overview Plantar fasciosis is pain at the site of the attachment of the plantar fascia and the calcaneus (calcaneal enthesopathy), with or without accompanying pain along the medial band of the plantar fascia. Diagnosis is mainly clinical.…

What Can Cause Pain In The Heel To Flare Up

Overview Plantar fasciitis is a condition that causes heel and arch pain through inflammation on the bottom of the foot. The part that’s inflamed (swollen) is actually the plantar fascia, which is the connective tissue or ligament that str…

What Leads To Heel Discomfort And The Ways To Successfully Treat It

Overview The plantar fascia is a thickened fibrous aponeurosis that originates from the medial tubercle of the calcaneus and runs forward to form the longitudinal foot arch. The function of the plantar fascia is to provide static support o…

Symptoms Of Black Toenails

If your Mallet Toe feels like a bruise or a dull ache, you may have metatarsalgia People with metatarsalgia will often find that the pain is aggravated by walking in bare feet and on hard floor surfaces. Pain in the ball of your foot can s…

Common Foot Disorder By Patrick A.DeHeer

If you look at the two x-rays below the one on the left is the preoperative x-ray. The goal of surgery as represented by the horizontal arrow is to move the first metatarsal bone closer to the second metatarsal. The x-ray on the right is t…

Radiographic Evaluation Of Hallux Valgus — UW Radiology

Please concerned about the slope or tilt angle of high heels. The transition of the slope should fit your feet. Should be gradual over the steepness of the slope, the curvature of the arch to be consistent with the high heels of the arch f…

Bunions And Hammer Toes

Today’s diagnosis is Phalangeal Head Resection, better known as, Arthroplasty for the Toe Joint Deformities. Surgeons often use phalangeal head resection to correct hammer, claw and mallet toes. In this procedure, the surgeon actually remo…

A Deformity Causing Pain To The Tip Of The Toe

Any joint can suffer anattack by RA. Most of the time the onset proves apparent on the smaller jointsof the hands, and it usually equally affects both sides of the body. RAsymptoms include inflammation, joint pain, fatigue, sporadic fevers…