Do You experience sharp pain under your big toe joint?
It might be Sesamoiditis and it’s worth getting checked out. It’s not uncommon to experience a sharp fairly focused pain under the head of the 1st metatarsal, or big toe joint. Usually slightly to the midline of the body versus the outside of the foot. There may be swelling, redness, heat or limitation in the […]
Read This If You Wear Orthotics
What happens to my foot orthotics as they age? This is a question we answer on a daily basis. These devices are not cheap and until you’ve actually benefited from genuine custom orthotic intervention it’s hard to place value on their presence in your shoes. So to answer that question properly we need to start […]
A New Twist On Little Toe
Several times before, we’ve written about painful corns and callous formation. Our skin always responds to abnormal or increased pressure over a bony prominence by an increase in thickness and depth. Initially, the build-up serves to form a protective layer, but gradually, that same thickening and hardness increases the pressure, causing inflammation and pain. One […]
Some Shoes Become Like Old Friends
Some models of shoes are like old friends at this point in my career. It was with great pleasure I recently purchased a new pair of Brooks Adrenaline GTS shoes, now in their 24th model year. Professionally referred to as “the baby beast”, inferring a slightly lighter weight model of its sibling model, The Beast. […]
Ready to cut off your little toe or its neighbour?
Upon reflection, I’m not quite sure why it’s taken me so long to blog about this particular condition. It’s by no means rare or unusual, and the pain from the condition can cause sane individuals to want to perform insane acts. A patient this morning arrived with a terrible tale of agony ruining a fantastic […]
Bring Us Your Shoes!
Thinking of coming to visit us? We talk about this on a daily basis with patients and educate them on how to judge and assess new shoes. Your shoes are an invaluable diagnostic tool for us. The wear marks the shoes display often act as a guide in our exploration of your biomechanics. There is […]
Do You Need Black Friday Shopping Ideas?
Black Friday adverts always give me cause to think of family gifts for the coming Christmas season. As we get older, we get harder to shop for, and thoughts turn to gifts of comfort and warmth. This year let us help give you some gift ideas. Our older and retired relatives tend to spend increasing […]
Gotta Sore Big Red Toe
Unless you’ve experienced one of these, the pain experienced is disproportionate to the size of the problem. This is a situation that gets revisited almost daily in the office and in our blog regularly. A health patient who manages their own foot-care gets a little careless in nail trimming and leaves behind a little spike. […]
A Unique Source of Skin Reaction
Not all of the causes of foot pain are ugly or menacing. Today’s source is just plain darn right cute! The patient, presented with a history of recent onset focused pain on the bottom of his right foot. Upon examination, the area indicated was not related to a bony prominence. This immediately makes a corn […]
Managing a Metatarsal Fracture!
I’m wasn’t quite sure how to title this blog. Perhaps “Always Be Your Own Best Advocate” might have been more appropriate. The Story A few weeks ago we received an urgent call to our Brantford Podiatry office from a patient explaining that over the past weekend she “had done something to her foot”. Now it […]