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Foot Pain? Go Shopping for New Shoes
You know that delightful feeling that you get when after a long day of walking in uncomfortable shoes, you finally get the chance to take them off and step onto the soft carpeted floor? Footwear today is not only a powerful fashion statement; it is also a reflection of important social and political influences.
What’s the deal with Women, Shoes and Foot Pain?
It is “painfully” obvious the damage that the wrong pair of shoes can do to your feet and even you...
Posted on 2017-02-27
Is there really a difference between a custom made orthotic and the kind you can buy in the drug store?
When I first graduated almost 30 years ago, not many people had even heard of orthotics much less knew what purpose they served or where they could get them. In those days, there were only a handful of orthotic manufacturing companies and as student interns in the school Chiropody Clinic, we were tasked with evaluating, prescribing, casting and hand manufacturing all types of orthotic devices for our clinic patients. This was a very practical skill that certainly did not ...
Posted on 2016-11-23
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