What Can Be Done About Flat Feet?
Foot care specialists like Chiropodists and Podiatrists are frequently called upon to explain the differences between a normal arch foot and that of a collapsed arch or flat foot. While some people with a flattened arch are fortunate enough to be able to live active and pain free lives, many will experience pain and discomfort that can range from mild and occasional to severe and constant.
It is by far the most common complaint that a foot specialist will be consulted about.
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Posted on 2016-09-15
Tips from a Rehabilitation Clinic on How to Travel with a Back Pain
It is a sad fact that many patients, regardless of whether they suffer from chronic back pain or not, return from a vacation needing the services of a Physiotherapist.
While travelling from one destination to another is more convenient than ever before, it certainly isn’t more comfortable. Airline engineers design planes for maximum load capacity and safety, not maximum comfort. This means tight seats and minimal leg room. Also airports have become mini-cities with kil...
Posted on 2016-09-15
Things you May Never Have Known About Back Pain: Fact not Fiction
Back pain is a funny thing. It can come quite suddenly, out of nowhere and completely incapacitate you for several days or weeks or it can come on gradually and intermittently, slowly taking its toll. Pain ranges from sharp and stabbing to a constant, dull ache. You can get back pain from lifting, bending, pushing, pulling, even sneezing and coughing. The options are endless. Here are some quick facts:
While anyone can get it, it is definitely more prevalent ...
Posted on 2016-08-26
What Does it Mean When Someone has Chronic Pain?
By definition, Chronic Pain is said to exist when pain remains present for a period of 6 months or more. Studies indicate that 20-30% of the population are affected by chronic pain (British Journal of Medicine). Shockingly enough, some patients describe their chronic pain condition as constant and ever present pain day after day. Others will report that their pain has more of an intermittent quality, with periods of intensity and diminishment but never fully absent for more than a very s...
Posted on 2016-08-26
A Chiropodist’s 1st Reported Case of a Pokemon Go Injury
Today I treated my first case of a Pokemon Go related injury. Of course, at first I thought that I was merely treating a routine ankle sprain, similar to the many, many ankle sprains and strains that I have encountered in almost 30 years of Chiropody practice. My 26 year old, very athletic and fit patient presented at our CanadaPhysio clinic today hopping on one foot and in obvious distress. He could barely put weight on his ankle and there was bruising and swelling around th...
Posted on 2016-07-14