Understanding Foot Pain: It’s Not Just About Your Shoes When foot pain strikes, many runners instinctively blame their shoes. While appropriate footwear is critical, it's not always the sole cause of discomfort. Foot pain can be a complex issue, often...
Your Ultimate Guide to Plantar Fasciitis Relief Heel pain is a real pain in the... well, heel. And if you're nodding along because you've felt that sharp stab yourself, you're not alone. People from all walks of life, like teachers,...
How does compression treat plantar fasciitis? Compression is a well known therapy for acute injuries and chronic swelling. For example, use of compression in the case of an ankle sprain helps to facilitate healing by reducing swelling, stabilizing the ankle...
How do you cure plantar fasciitis? How six little hairbands can fix your feet. We call it banding. I’ve seen thousands of patients who suffer from plantar fasciitis, and there's one thing for sure, they all suffer from the same...
DMEs – a $300 dollar hammer? Durable medical goods are items that your doctor would often dispense from his or her office. In other cases, durable medical goods might be purchased from a home health supply company. Examples of durable...
What is Toe Spring? Toe spring is the term used to describe a shoe or foot insert that enables rolling off the forefoot. Let me create the visual – think clog, men’s wingtip shoes or MBT Shoes. Each of these...
How does a heel lift change the function of the foot and ankle? This article explores the effect of a heel lift on foot and ankle function.
A stress fracture is a nondisplaced defect in a bone that occurs due to repetitive load or trauma. A calcaneal stress fracture (fracture of the heel bone) is most often the result of a sudden abrupt injury but can occur without a history of trauma.
Which heel lift or heel cushion is right for you? This post discussed the relative hardness of heel lifts and heel cushions.
Walking on a fixed surface is dramatically different from walking on a moving surface like a treadmill. This article explores treadmill injuries and how to prevent them.
This post is part of a seven section blog on the diagnosis and treatment of plantar fasciitis. This post discusses complications of endoscopic plantar fasciotomy.
How can you treat plantar fasciitis without surgery? There's actually a lot of options that are used as alternatives to surgery. This article explores treatment alternatives for plantar fasciitis.
How is plantar fasciits treated surgically? This post takes an in-depth looks at a procedure called endoscopic plantar fasciotomy. Video of the procedure is included.
Plantar fasciitis can be successfully treated with conservative care in most cases. This article explores the different methods of conservative care in the treatment of plantar fasciitis.
Plantar fasciitis is such a common reason for heel pain that clinicians often need to be careful not to 'over diagnose' plantar fasciitis. What can be the other causes of heel pain? This article takes a look at the differential diagnoses for heel pain when the pain is not plantar fasciitis.
Plantar fasciitis has a number of contributing factors that include age, weight and heel height of your shoes. How do these contributing factors come together to cause acute heel pain? This article explores the contributing factors that lead t painful plantar fasciitis.
Plantar fasciitis is actually a fairly new medical term that is used to describe an old problem - heel spur. What's the history of this transition from heel spur to plantar fasciitis? Thsi article explores the definitions of heel pain and the history of plantar fasciitis.
We all got together this morning at Myfootshop.com for coffee and discussion regarding products and conditions. Since plantar fasciitis is such a common problem, we've been spending a few weeks on the topic. Part of the discussion this morning focused on the differences between acute and chronic plantar fasciitis, also known as plantar fasciitis and plantar fasciosis.
The use of a cut-out heel pad or horseshoe pad dates back to the days when we believed that the primary contributing factor to heel pain was a spur on the bottom of the heel. Popular belief was that standing on the spur resulted in pain. Cut-out pads were used to pocket the bottom of the heel.
When is a prescription orthotic a part of the treatment of plantar fasciitis? This article looks at the pros and cons of prescription vs non-prescription orthotics in the treatment of plantar fasciitis.
When you look at the cross section of folks who have plantar fasciitis, what you'll come to recognize is that this particular demographic is a group of people who are active, middle aged and just a tad over weight. So why is this particular group of folks prone to plantar fasciitis? There's actually a couple of reasons, but let's focus in on the calf as one of the primary contributing factors in the onset of plantar fasciitis.
What's the best way to treat plantar fasciitis? Stretches are helpful as are a heel lift. What's the place of a night splint in the treatment of plantar fasciitis? This article explores the use of a night splint in the treatment of plantar fasciitis.
We meet at the store each week to go over foot conditions and how to treat them. Just a good opportunity to talk shop. This week we got into some of the subleties of plantar fasciitis and how to treat it. First though, to understand the basics of plantar fasciitis, be sure to read our knowledge base article on plantar fasciitis. I think that's really a great springboard to get you oriented to the condition.
