What are the five key things to consider when buying a good stable shoe?

image of podiatry associates doctor testing shoes for flexibility in the ball of the foot

How to buy new shoe and what to look for has been a topic of conversation with patients for the past 35 years of my professional career. The reason we spend so much time on the subject of footwear is that without good stable footwear as a foundation, any efforts we make to improve on […]

Quick fix, for long relief

Overlapping toes caused by contracture and biomechanical instability

It’s always lovely to reconnect with a patient after several years.  In this particular case these feet have covered many miles in archaeological digs from Egypt to China. Several years ago we helped address a structural instability in their feet by changing footwear buying/wearing habits, and introducing custom functional orthotics. We then performed a minor […]

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Every week we are active on social media bringing you subjects of local interest and information hopefully beneficial to you or someone you love. Just as in our office we do not use this connection to sell services or products. If we recommend a type of shoes, or a training regime for a particular activity […]

Holiday Gift Ideas

This year if you really want to show Grandma or Grandpa you really care and want them to be a vital active part of your life for years to come, don’t, I repeat DO NOT buy them slippers, no matter how cute they (the slippers) might look.  If you have already given in to temptation […]

On Target With Our Ulcers

Its amazing how something as simple as a small ulcer under the big toe joint can limit your mobility and quality of life. Quality of life is a term we chuck out there easily but when talking to this patient it really was far reaching. On a daily basis wound care was taking at least […]