Advice on Foot Care

Amplify’d from nfl.fanhouse.com After the game, Favre was said to be moving slowly in the Vikings‘ press room, the result of pain in his surgically repaired left ankle. It turns out that it’s a problem that Favre will have to deal with all season. Favre told Sports Illustrated’s Peter King that he got an injection [...]

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Biomet, Inc is sponsoring a clinical trial studying the effects of blood platelet injections in patients with chronic plantar fasciitis. The researchers are conducting a randomized, controlled multi center trial and recruiting 120 adult patients for the study. The patients will be randomly divided to receive either a steroid injection or autologous platelet injection taken [...]

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A new study in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association compared two treatments in patients with plantar fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain and develops from the combination of faulty foot mechanics and overuse. Social Bookmarking OptionsBlinklistBloglinesBlogmarksDiggdel.icio.usFacebookFurlMa.gnoliaNewsVineRedditStumbleUponTechnorati

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A Morton’s neuroma is an inflamed, thickened nerve in the ball of the foot. The common symptoms are pain, tingling and numbness in the ball of the foot and shooting to the 2nd and 3rd toes. It’s common to experience a feeling of walking on a lump or bunched up sock. Common treatments include rest, [...]

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At the 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in December, Italian radiologists presented results from their study of a novel treatment for plantar fasciitis. Dr. Luca M. Sconfienza and his research team evaluated 44 patients with plantar fasciitis who were unresponsive to therapy. Each patient had a Social [...]

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