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Exercising with Diabetes
For optimal physical health and wellbeing, there are a handful of things any person simply must do. Obviously, this includes eating well, staying physically active, and getting plenty of sleep. These are all essential for any living being, but that importance is...
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Boosting Your Blood Flow
You may have heard this amazing fact before, but your blood vessels would stretch out about 60,000 miles if they were laid end-to-end. That means, considering the circumference of the world is 25,000 miles, your arteries, veins, and capillaries could wrap around it...
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Staying Active When You Have a Bunion
It can be incredibly frustrating when bunion pain gets in the way of your plans to run, exercise, or play favorite sports. Physical activity is obviously necessary for your overall health and wellbeing, so what are you to do? Well, the good news is that there are...
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Ingrown Toenail Removal
Our goal at Wilks Advanced Foot Care, is always to treat your foot and ankle issues by using conservative, nonsurgical methods. Sometimes, like with difficult and recurrent ingrown toenails, this is simply not possible. When you have a nail that repeatedly causes...
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How to Get Rid of Warts
They might be unsightly and embarrassing, but warts are quite common – with most people developing one at some point or another in their lifetime. This doesn’t mean there isn’t anything that can be done about them, though. On the contrary, plantar wart treatment is...
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Why Your Feet Itch
When people think about podiatrists and what we do, they tend to think about diagnosing and treating sources of pain and dysfunction in the feet and ankles. Sure, we certainly treat conditions like plantar fasciitis, bunions, and fractures, but we also provide care...
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Fix Ugly Toenails
After our harsh winter, many people here in Roseburg are really looking forward to the official start of summer. Given that summer is the time to wear sandals and open-toed shoes, and spend time walking barefoot on the beach, there are others who aren’t quite as...
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Stop Sore Feet After Hiking
We are truly fortunate to live in an area with countless opportunities for outdoor activities and an abundance of natural beauty. No matter if you love the thrill of whitewater rafting on the North Umpqua or enjoy learning from the master gardeners at Discovery...
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How to Stay Active with Heel Pain
One of the most common issues any podiatrist treats is heel pain. Some of the reasons explaining this include the facts that feet endure tremendous force loads and two very important connective tissues are anchored to the heel bone. The good news is that there are...
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Why Are My Toenails Yellow?
If your toenails are starting to look a little yellow—and you’re certain you didn’t just forget you polished them the other day!—the unfortunate reality is that you’ve probably contracted a fungal infection. Yellow toenails are caused by a class of fungi known as...
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Relief from Neuropathy Pain
Peripheral neuropathy can turn your whole life upside down. This common neurological condition is often associated with diabetes, but it can develop for a wide variety of reasons, including smoking, alcohol abuse, illnesses, or exposure to toxins. Sometimes no...
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What are the Symptoms of Neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy, which simply means damage to nerves that make up your peripheral nervous system, is a complex set of conditions that can take many different forms and produce a variety of different symptoms. These nerves have a wide range of responsibilities,...
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