High blood pressure is also known as hypertension. Your podiatrist is vitally concerned about hypertension and vascular disease (heart and circulatory...

Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease, Patients

Often when pain or deformity persists, surgery may be appropriate to alleviate discomfort or to restore the function of your foot.

Treatment, Patients

Haglund's Deformity is a bony enlargement of the back of the heel bone. Sometimes it's called pump bump because the deformity often occurs in women wh...

Muscle & Tendon Problems, Patients

The heel bone is the largest of the 26 bones in the human foot. Like all bones, it is subject to outside influences that can affect its integrity and ...

Muscle & Tendon Problems, Patients

A neuroma is a painful condition, also referred to as a pinched nerve or a nerve tumor. It is a benign growth of nerve tissue frequently found between...

Toe Joint & Nerve Disorders, Patients

Shoe inserts are any kind of non-prescription foot support designed to be worn inside a shoe. Custom orthotics are specially-made devices designed to ...

Treatment, Patients

Warts are one of several soft tissue conditions of the foot that can be quite painful. They are caused by a virus and can appear anywhere on the skin.

Skin Disorders, Patients

Skin cancer can develop anywhere on the body, including in the lower extremities. Most skin cancers of the feet are painless, and often there is a his...

Skin Disorders, Patients

PAD is caused by a blockage or narrowing of the arteries in the legs when fatty deposits (plaque) build up. The buildup of plaque causes the arteries ...

Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease, Patients

The results of the 2011 Podiatric Practice Survey are in! Check out the highlights, then download the full practice survey results.

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