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Find Out How To Handle Pes Planus

OverviewIf you have flat feet, you may also experience pain throughout the lower body and into the lower back. Orthotics can be prescribed to create a system of support for the body and surgery can also offer a more permanent solution. Con…

Everything It Is Best To Understand About

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…

Heel Lifts For Leg Length Discrepancy

OverviewDifferences of an inch-and-a-half to two inches may require epiphysiodesis (adjusting the growth of the longer side) or acute shortening of the other side. Differences greater than 2.5 inches usually require a lengthening procedure…

Leg Length Discrepancy Symptoms

OverviewDifferences between the lengths of the upper and/or lower legs are called leg length discrepancies (LLD). A leg length difference may simply be a mild variation between the two sides of the body. This is not unusual in the general …

What Causes Mortons Neuroma

OverviewMorton's neuroma is a swollen or thickened nerve in the ball of your foot. When your toes are squeezed together too often and for too long, the nerve that runs between your toes can swell and get thicker. This swelling can make it …

The Ideal Solution To Leg Length Imbalances Is Shoe Lifts

There are not one but two different kinds of leg length discrepancies, congenital and acquired. Congenital indicates that you are born with it. One leg is anatomically shorter than the other. Through developmental phases of aging, the brai…

What Is A Heel Spur

Overview A bone spur (osteophyte) is a bony growth that forms along the edge of normal bone in response to wear and tear, most frequently in the joints. A heel spur is a bone spur of the heel bone, which causes heel pain by rubbing on the …

What Causes Inferior Calcaneal Spur

Overview A heel spur is a hooked bony growth protruding from the calcaneus or heel bone. It often occurs alongside plantar fasciitis, and as such the two conditions are often confused, however they are not the same. Causes Heel spurs devel…

Cure For Bursitis In Ball Of Foot

Overview Bursas are small fluid containing sacs, that are situated between areas of high friction such as bone against the floor (heel) and bone against other soft tissue structures like tendons, skin and or muscle. The bursa job is to act…

Hammer Toes Pain In Ball Of Foot

Overview What are hammertoes, mallet toes and claw toes? Often the words are used interchangeably to mean an abnormally contracted toe like the drawing above. Technically speaking, a "Hammer toes" is the name for a toe that is contracted a…

Bunions Cause And Effect

Overview A bunion (from the Latin 'bunion', meaning enlargement) is a protuberance of bone around the big toe joint. The enlargement can also occur at the outside of the foot, at the base of the little toe. This is called a tailor's bunion…

What Causes Over-Pronation Of The Foot

Overview Pronation occurs as weight is transferred from the heel to the forefoot and the foot rolls inwards. Or to put it a little more technically; pronation is the movement of the subtalar joint (between the talus and calcaneus) into eve…

What Exactly Is Severs Disease?

Overview The true name of this complaint is calcaneal apophysitis which just means an inflamation of the growth centre of the bone in your heel as a result of pulling by the Achilles tendon - it is important to realise that it is not a dis…

What Is Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction ?

Overview A painful flat foot, or adult acquired flatfoot deformity, is a progressive collapsing of the arch of the foot that occurs as the posterior tibial tendon becomes insufficient due to various factors. Early stages may present with o…

What Is Adult Aquired FlatFoot ?

Overview Collapsed arches occur in five percent of adults 40 years and older, especially those who are overweight or maintain sedentary lifestyles. At the onset of the condition, adult acquired flatfoot can be controlled with anti-inflamma…

The Major Causes And Treatments Of Achilles Tendinitis

Overview Achilles tendinitis can be a very crippling issue for runners - simply because the pain is enough to discourage loading of the foot. It can also be a tricky condition to treat because the tendon is not as heavily vascularized (i.e…

What Triggers Heel Discomfort

Overview If you experience sharp, throbbing or aching heel pain with your first steps out of bed each morning, or when walking throughout the day, you may be suffering from Plantar Fasciitis. This guide will help you to understand the defi…

What Is Plantar Fasciitis

Overview Heel pain is the most common musculoskeletal complaint of patients presenting to podiatric practitioners throughout the country. It is well-recognized that subcalcaneal pain syndrome, commonly attributed to plantar fascitis, is a …

What Triggers Plantar Fasciitis And Ways To Remedy It

Overview Plantar fasciitis is thickening of the plantar fascia, a band of tissue running underneath the sole of the foot. The thickening can be due to recent damage or injury, or can be because of an accumulation of smaller injuries over t…

What Will Cause Plantar Fasciitis And The Ways To Deal With It

Overview Plantar fasciitis, or better termed chronic plantar heel pain, is likely caused by a combination of heel Compression, from standing with weight distributed on the heels. Abnormal stress on the foot, from decreased ankle flexibilit…

Symptoms Of Sesamoiditis

If your High Arched Feet 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…

Achilles Tendonitis

Overview A tendon is a band of connective tissue that anchors muscle to bone. The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the body. It attaches the calf muscles to the heel bone (calcaneus) and is very important because it lets you lift y…

Plantar Fasciitis Leg Pain

Besides directly working the bottoms of the feet, focusing on opening the calves is extremely important in treatment of plantar fasciitis. The tendons of the deep muscles of the calf wrap around and under the foot so extra tension or overu…

The Causes Of Bunions & Remedies For Treating A Bunion

A bunion gives the big toe a deformed appearance, because it is angled and pushes against the other toes. The University of Maryland Medical Center notes that all the toes can become affected by the bunion and develop a condition called ha…

Foot Pain In The Morning

Suppliers of wholesale clothing belong to the garment industry that is booming but with a very tight competition at hand. There are big companies that sometimes kick out the small ones especially when they do not have enough capital to beg…

Tips For Getting Rid Of Foot Pain

Bunions are more common in women and are caused by a number of reasons, including wearing shoes that are too tight, years of abnormal motion, poor foot mechanics, bone deformities, flat feet and arthritis. However, common to both feet cond…

Remedies For Heel Spurs

Severe heel pain is the most common and identifying symptom of this condition. As mentioned above, the pain caused due to plantar fasciitis is of specific type. It is experienced in the morning or after any instance when the foot was still…