Are your shoes talking to you? It’s time to learn their language!
Are your shoes talking to you? It’s time to learn their language!
Bowed Legs? So what!
No one has straight legs, but knock knees and bowed legs greatly impact how the feet strike the ground. Something as simple as bowing of the legs (Tibial varum) can add indescribable amounts of wear and tear to our bodies over the years. Very often our patients are unaware of the condition yet upon watching […]
Sever’s disease is a common childhood and early teenage affliction, what causes it?
Today’s topic arises from a question from a patient regarding our last blog and the appearance of a lovely young lady with a very sore posterior heel. Sever’s Disease may considered an old fashioned term, and rightly so since it was first described in 1912 by J W Sever. Calcaneal Apophysitis may be more appropriate […]
Is Growing Pains a clinical diagnosis? or just evidence of a lazy clinician.
This is another one of those pet peeves of mine, and yes I know, enough of the eye-rolling. The “Growing Pains” diagnosis is delivered daily to concerned parents and affected child with the advice that “this too shall pass”. Just like acne, temper tantrums, nose bleeds and all the other myriad of interesting afflictions associated […]