While walking may seem like a mundane task, the truth is committing to walking a certain amount each day is excellent for your overall health. Not only does it allow for you to boost your cardio levels, but it is also a great way to...
How Can Our Podiatrist in Port Washington, NY Help You? It is not uncommon for young athletes to feel as if they are indestructible. For parents, this comes with both positives and negatives. While children can handle the bumps and bruises that come with playing various...
Everybody knows that exercise is good for you. But even if you are careful, there are risks associated with exercise. For most people, this might mean blisters and aching muscles, but some have more serious sports injuries. Sports injuries are simply injuries that occur as...
The weather’s finally getting warm and you are excited to start a new walking program to help shed a few winter pounds and get in shape for summer. You head out the first day and come home with a painful blister and your plan is...
Spring has definitely sprung and that means that here at Great Neck Family Foot Care we are seeing more sports injuries in our children and teen patients. In recent years foot, ankle and other orthopedic injuries in children and young adults have been on the...
Stress fractures in the feet, tiny surface cracks in the bone, can be a puzzling ailment to patients. They may feel pain in the front of their foot, somewhere between the toes and middle of the foot, but it comes and goes. As time goes...
A little known structure of the human body is the sesamoid. Sesamoids are tiny bones that are embedded in tendons. They only occur in a few places in the body. In the foot, two of them are found on the underside at the base of...
Super Bowl 50 wasn’t just a victory for Peyton Manning and the Broncos over the Panthers, it was also a personal victory for Manning over a foot condition that plagues many of our patients at Great Neck Family Foot Care: plantar fasciitis. The plantar fascia...
The Achilles tendon stretches from the bones in your heel up to your calf muscles. It is one of the longest tendons in the body, and also one of the most frequently injured. Sudden or excessive force on the Achilles tendon can cause inflammation and...
Of the 26 bones in the foot, 19 are toe bones (also known as phalanges) and metatarsal bones (the long bones in the midfoot). A fracture, or break in the bones of the toes is actually quite common but at Great Neck Family Foot Care,...
