Blog | Boca Raton Foot Care

The feet are one of the most overlooked parts of the body. Imagine if you woke up every day with lingering severe pain in your back, neck or wrist, making it difficult to concentrate on your work and basic tasks. Chances are you wouldn’t wait too long before seeking out a physician’s opinion on the matter and taking steps to correct the problem—but how long will you put your feet through daily torment before starting to take the problem seriously? [Read more]

You’ve heard of staying young at heart, but what about young at foot? You rely on your feet to take you everywhere, but do you treat them as the essential body part that they are? Just like most other aspects of our bodies, feet change with age. The shape of our feet change as we develop different foot conditions, stuff them into high heels and stand or walk for prolonged periods of time. [Read more]

There is an old saying that when your feet hurt your whole body hurts. Unfortunately, our feet carry much of the burden of our day to day lives. Everything from standing still to exercising requires our feet to be in motion. We stuff our feet into shoes that are too tight and run them ragged all day long until we can’t bear to stand up any longer, then we wake up the next morning and start it all over again. [Read more]

Face it: varicose veins are not the most attractive look to pull off. The web-like growths of twisted, bulging veins are enough to make many people hide their legs from the world. When you are struggling with varicose veins in Boca Raton or elsewhere in South Florida the problem becomes even more profound, as wearing long pants in the South Florida summer isn’t exactly an easy task. [Read more]

The heel pain of plantar fasciitis can make exercise seem impossible, but if you’ve seen your podiatrist in Boca Raton, you may be well on your way to getting back on your feet. Still, you’ll need to be careful about how you return to your exercise routine after plantar fasciitis to ensure that you don’t cause yourself further pain. By closely following your podiatrist’s instructions, and returning to exercise in a slow and gentle way, you can help yourself recover and leave this common cause of heel pain behind you. [Read more]