FOOT AILMENT DEFINITIONS
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- Ingrown Toenail with Paronychia - Painful, infected skin margins around toenail, one or both sides.
- Plantar Wart/Wart - Small circular bumps often mistaken for calluses. These are caused from viral infection
in skin.
- Corns/Calluses - Pressure points on feet that can be tender when they become too thick.
- Nail Fungus (Mycotic Toenails) - Due to fungus infection that invades nails.
- Morton's Neuroma - Due to irritation to nerve that increases in size from swelling and scar tissue formation. Often is painful when wearing shoes.
- Bunions - Arthritic joint that sometimes becomes painful and makes it difficult to find good-fitting shoes.
- Flat Arch or Pronated Foot - Flat arches cause many foot problems, often leading to bunions, heel spurs or arch pain
Are you suffering from any of the following?
- Plantar Fasciitis - Arch strain causing inflammation in heel or arch, resulting in severe pain or soreness.
- Chronic Achilles Tendonitis - Caused pain back of ankle. This is due to several types of biomechanical faults that cause stress and microtears in tendon.
- Lateral Ankle Sprain - Twisted ankle that tears ligaments, resulting in painful, swollen, sometimes bruised area. Can become a chronic condition.
- Type 3 Ankle Sprain - Ligaments
torn completely.
- Athlete's Foot or Tinea Pedis - Caused from fungus infection, causes irritation and becomes itchy.
- Hammer Toe with Corn - Deformity of toe, which is often cocked up, sometimes overlapping another toe, which can cause painful corn to form.
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- All Foot Pain
- Heel/Arch Pain
- Heel Spurs
- Foot Injuries
- Geriatric Foot Care
- Ankle Instability
- Arthritic Care
- Ingrown Nails
- Warts
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Diabetes-related foot ailments
- Diabetic Neuropathy - Sometimes painful, burning, abnormal sensations, or loss of feeling in feet.
- Diabetic Pressure Ulcers - Diabetics are susceptible to these type of pressure sores. Often this is due to decreased feeling (neuropathy), allowing skin break-down, open sores and infections. Can be difficult to heal.
- Diabetic Charcot Foot Due to Insensitive Feet with Secondary Infection - A foot that starts to break down; bones break, joints dislocate, arch inverts. This is usually seen in diabetic patient with severe loss of feeling. This always leads to a problem foot structure.
- Severe Vein Insufficiency with Cellulitis - Veins are the vessels taking blood upward against gravity, toward the heart. Weakness can occur in valves in the veins, allowing inflammation to develop, sometimes causing red cellulitis legs and eventually in late stages of the disease, brownish discoloration.
- These diabetic foot complications are usually treatable if caught and treated early