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Strategies for Sesamoiditis
If you are a sports fan, fall is a great time of year. Football has started, baseball is heading to the playoffs, and basketball and hockey are going to be starting very soon. Even if you don’t enjoy watching athletes in these respective sports, you can probably...
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Keep Turf Toe from Keeping You out of the Game
Recreational sports can be a great way for people of all ages to have fun, get exercise, and fulfill competitive urges. Of course, as is true with any physical endeavor, they also present opportunities for potential injuries. The good news is that there are often...
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Tight Shoes Can Lead to Ingrown Toenails
Shoes play an important role in protecting feet and keeping them safe. At the same time, footwear that doesn’t fit correctly can cause a host of issues for your lower limbs. This goes both ways, as shoes really shouldn’t be either too loose or too tight. When you wear...
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I Spy Kids Foot Conditions
A parent’s primary concern is the health and wellbeing of his or her child. Naturally, you want your child to experience the least amount of pain possible – something you can achieve by recognizing problems at their earliest stages. If we are able to treat a case of...
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Get a Jump on Juvenile Bunions
A Google search for “awkward teenage moments” brings up over 4 million results, which should be of no surprise to anyone who was ever a teenager! Adolescent awkwardness has provided an abundance of material for pop culture, including such seminal teen movies as...
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Protecting Diabetic Feet from Injury
One of the most basic facts of diabetes is that it causes major health problems. Most people know this includes elevated risk for heart attack, stroke, blindness, and kidney disease. Less commonly known—at least, by the general population—is how the disease affects...
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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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