As an athlete, how can you be expected to maintain an active lifestyle without taking proper care of your feet? The average person is expected to walk roughly 110,000 miles in their lifetime. Athletes, meanwhile, live their daily lives with an above-average degree of physical activity, pushing them past that...
A Jones fracture is a foot injury involving the fifth metatarsal along the outside of the foot connecting to the pinky toe. Because Jones fractures are often mistaken for ankle sprains, they often go undiagnosed and can lead to more serious problems. Luckily, our podiatrists in Bellmore at Cherrywood Foot...
When someone gets injured, we typically tend to think of using ice and applying it to the area in pain for different intervals of time. This concept of using low temperatures to treat an injury is taken to extreme levels with the implementation of cryotherapy. Cryotherapy, at its core, uses...
Managing your overall health is something that can be difficult without the proper help. Did you know that you can benefit greatly from visiting a podiatrist? That is why we are here to help you and inform you of exactly what we do! A podiatrist plays an important role in...
Toenail fungus, or onychomycosis as it’s commonly referred to, can be very distressing to those people who have it. Being aesthetically displeasing to the eye, combined with creating pain or difficulty while working, toenail fungus is unfortunately very common in the United States with 35 million people suffering from it....
The start of the Pedicure Many people just think pedicures are only a cosmetic function but that is not the case. The word pedicure itself comes from the Latin origin of pes cura where pes means foot and cura means to care. Back in history, the pedicure was a treatment...