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....
Are you the kind of person who likes rocking a pair of fashionable pumps day after day? You might love the way they make you look and feel, but after a while you may notice an unfortunate development—Haglund’s deformity, or “pump bump.” This is an enlargement of bone...
Understandably, lumps and bumps that appear anywhere on your body can cause a lot of anxiety, especially if they’re painful or don’t seem to go away or get any better. A bony bump on your heel—also known clinically as Haglund’s deformity—is no exception. But what is...
Let’s think of some famous pairs. Peanut butter and jelly. Abbot and Costello. Statler and Waldorf. How about plantar fasciitis and heel spurs? Okay, so that last pairing might not be as well known to the general public, and they’re not really as inseparable at the...
There are many areas in life where technological advances have made tremendous differences, including the medical field. The human body isn’t all that different from a hundred years ago, but now we have advanced ways to see what is happening in the body, treat various...
