School is now underway for your children, but here’s the deal: Education should be a lifelong endeavor! Even though your children are the ones in school, you shouldn’t stop learning yourself. And a particular area that always provides so much benefit from continuing education (formal or otherwise) is physical health. After...
It’s sandal weather again, (or barefoot weather for the truly free spirited) and along with the sandals and bare feet come all of the bad nasties that your feet can pick up along the way. One thing to keep in mind when you are sporting sandals, flip flops or sans shoe completely...
When the weather warms up, we often take our activities and exercises outside. After the winter lull, our feet and lower limbs become very susceptible to injury. If you’re currently starting a new workout regimen, or generally increasing your outdoor activity, be careful! Even simple exercises with repetitive movements can cause or...
Shoe Buying Tips For Your KidsNavigating the teen years is not easy – for parents or their children. With your child undergoing major health and body changes alongside psychological and hormonal transformations, this truly represents a test on everything including shoes.What to do about shoes? You need to balance your...
It's Summer! Full Blast! My Latest On Caring For Your Feet In The Heat!Summer months and summer weather present different challenges for people regarding the health of their feet. Hot weather means people wearing more open shoes, shoes without support, wearing closed shoes with bare feet. Hot weather means more...
June is here and it's time for a lot of parents to start to stress about getting their kids ready to go off to sleep-away camp for the summer. Buying clothes, bedding, camp gear, athletic equipment, toiletries, etc. I always know come mid-June that I'll be dragging my son to...
ActivitiesSpring is a time of year when, like all seasons, your feet can go through dramatic changes. During the winter, we tend to be less active and wear drastically different shoes and footwear. As Springtime come, the weather warms up and people begin to do more outside. Gone are the...
Every second of every day in the United States an older adult falls. This makes falls the number one cause of injuries and deaths from injury among older Americans. In 2014 alone, older Americans experienced 29 million falls causing seven million injuries and costing an estimated $31 billion in annual...
Taking care of a patient's foot problems is always rewarding. Any podiatrist will tell you that many foot conditions are seasonal. Summertime is notorious for athlete's foot; In the Spring, we see an influx of orthopedic injuries. Fall is rife with ball of the foot and heel pain. Wintertime is...