Foot Health Friday

Staff

March 8, 2013

There are more and more testimonials for a device known as the Circulation Booster appearing on TV advertising and video sharing sites like You Tube. Lot of claims are being made for the device and how it can improve the circulation, but you will find no published scientific data that it works. It is supposed to work by stimulating the muscles to contract. This has the effect of acting as a pump on the circulation. It certainly can help improve the blood flow back to the heart when using the device which may be useful to some people, but it can do nothing for the arterial circulation – that is the amount of blood flow going down to the foot. Like any other product that is promoted on TV with testimonials, it needs to be treated cautiously. Advertising authorities in a number of countries have taken them to task for the nature of the claims that they are making for this product.

Does cancer affect the foot?

Staff

March 1, 2013

Of course it does. A diagnosis of cancer is not what anyone wants, but the foot can be affected just like any other part of the body. Its not that common in the foot, so that means all those who treat people with foot problems need to be very vigilant to make sure that they get the diagnosis of the foot pain right as the consequences of a wrong diagnosis here can be disastrous. Most cases of cancer in the foot are just simple benign skin lesions that are easy to manage. The more serious ones are when there is a metastasis that has spread to the foot from a malignant cancer elsewhere. these are much more harder to diagnose and much harder to treat and often have a poor prognosis.

Calcaneal Apophysitis

Staff

February 22, 2013

Pain in the heel of children is relatively common and in most cases is a condition commonly known as Severs disease or technically known as calcaneal apophysitis. This is a benign disorder of the growth plate at the back of the heel bone in which the growing area becomes strained. It is a benign problem as they grow out of it in the mid-teenage years when the growth plate merges with the rest of the heel bone. This is more common in active children. The pain of this condition usually is around the edges of the heel bone at the back, often painful to squeezing. Its is usually painful during activity, but can be painful after activity if it gets worse. The most common treatment for calcaneal apophysitis is to use a cushioned heel raise to protect the area and lesson the pull from the achilles tendon.

For more on this, see the links here.

De Agony of De Burning Feet

Staff

February 15, 2013

Feet that constantly burn are a miserable problem and have a significant effect on the quality of life. This is mainly due to the unrelenting symptoms that are hard to find relief from. You see many people asking on forums for advice on this out of desperation. Most cases of burning feet are due to some medial problem such as the peripheral neuropathy that occurs in diabetes or from other metabolic disorders, dietary deficiency problems or other types of nerve damage. Every case of burning feet need to be investigated to determine the cause, as the treatment needs to be directed at what is actually causing it. Unfortunately, often the cause is not treatable and the condition progresses. This means that most of the time the treatment is purely symptomatic with drugs or topical medications. There is plenty of practical advice on how to manage the pain that is a result of the underlying problem.

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