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Watch Out for Signs of a Foot Infection
Size isn’t a great predictor of how serious a problem will be. Bacteria is microscopic, but a colony can grow and spread until it becomes a dangerous, and possibly life-threatening, problem. You can develop infections anywhere throughout your body. Cuts and puncture...
Diabetic Foot Care Is So Important
Being diagnosed with diabetes can change everything. This can mean adjusting your diet, exercising, and keeping up with medication to control the disease. If you or someone you love has been recently diagnosed, you may have heard that one essential part of your health...
Next Steps When You Break a Toe
Next steps are a normal concern when you have change in your life, like graduating from college, moving somewhere new, or getting a puppy. Knowing what comes next and how to handle it helps you tackle the challenges ahead. The same is true for problems or injuries...
How to Tell Between a Sprain and a Fracture
It can be hard to tell identical twins apart, especially if you don’t know them well. Even similar-looking pets can be easy to mix up if you aren’t familiar with them. People, places, and things that are similar can be easy to confuse until you get a closer look at...
Your Risks for Ankle Sprains
Taking risks isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Many fun activities like sports involve injury risks. Whenever you travel, you risk losing your luggage or having something else go wrong. However, you can unnecessarily increase your own risks for painful problems like...
Pamper Your Feet with Spa Treatment in Wichita
It’s an indisputable fact—life is stressful. Work, family, finances, commute…and that’s just to start! If you are looking for a way to relieve stress—and given the physical toll it can take on your body, you absolutely should—we are pleased to offer a relaxing...
Overstretched: Turf Toe Treatment Options
When stretchy materials stretch too far and lose their elasticity, they aren’t able to hold things well. This is true for everything from rubber bands to elastic waistbands in pants to the connective tissues in your body. Your tendons and ligaments have a small degree...
What Is a Turf Toe Injury?
We haven’t conducted any formal polling on this topic, but we’d be willing to bet that turf toe lands high on the public’s list of “injuries I’ve heard of, but don’t know anything about.” Usually it pops up in the media only when it manages to keep a prominent NFL...
Treatment for Forefoot Pain
At Kansas Foot Center, we’re firm believers that you can’t provide the right treatment for forefoot pain until you know at least two things: (1) what caused the pain in the first place, and (2) the personality, needs, and goals of the patient. Every patient and every...
Causes of Pain in the Forefoot
Sometimes an injury or illness has a specific, identifiable cause. In other cases, a certain set of symptoms (or even a more specific injury) might arise from a wide variety of possible factors, in isolation or combination, and uncovering the source might take some...
Is Your Painful Heel Bump Bursitis, Pump Bump, or Both?
Lumps and bumps at the back of the heel can, understandably, be concerning, especially when causing you pain. Although there are other, less common possibilities, two of the most frequent causes of bulging and swelling along the back of the heel are bursitis and...
Bursitis Symptoms and Treatment
Have you ever taken a moment to appreciate your joints? These magnificently complex structures require a wide variety of tissues—bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons—to function perfectly in concert with one another to achieve effective, pain-free motion and mobility....
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