Diabetes is a disease that affects about 9.4% of the U.S. population alone. The condition causes your body to produce insulin insufficiently. The production of insulin is essential for the body’s health, as the hormone is responsible for absorbing any sugar from your blood to produce energy. If this process does not occur, sugar is […]
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Total Contact Casting: The Gold Standard in Wound Care
Total Contact Casting: The Gold Standard in Foot Wound Care Available In Great Neck, Long Island As the incidence of diabetes rises in the United States, more and more people are coping with diabetic foot wounds. When diabetes causes a loss of sensation in the foot (neuropathy), foot ulcers can often be the result. Even […]
Burning Feet Is Common Complaint In Podiatrists Office
Burning Feet A Common Cause Of Pain In Great Neck Podiatrist Office Many people are all too familiar with carpal tunnel syndrome, a common condition involving nerve entrapment at the wrist which leads to burning and pain in the hand and fingers. A very similar, but less recognized condition commonly can lead to […]
Sock Drive For The Homeless Supporting Diabetes Awareness
Sock Drive at Great Neck Family Foot Care For the Month Of November In honor of Diabetes Awareness month Great Neck Family Foot Care will be holding a Sock drive for the homeless on Long Island. As the weather in the New York Metro area drops the risk of damage to the feet due to […]
Back to School with Healthy Feet
Long Island Podiatrist Gets Kids Back to School with Healthy Feet The days are getting shorter and the stores are full of back-to-school specials. Before you start checking things off your school-year preparation lists, the Podiatrists at Great Neck Family Foot Care would like to encourage you to take a couple minutes and consider how […]
Laser Nail Treatment
Long Island Nail Fungus High-Tech Laser Treatments and Cosmetics for Toenail Fungus If you have a problem with fungal toenails, the arrival of swimming weather and sunny days at the beach may bring you nothing but anxiety: You make excuses for not jumping into that beautiful blue water, and shopping for summer shoes becomes a […]
Great Neck Family Foot Care ‘s Summer Guide to Foot Health
Great Neck Family Foot Care’s Summer Guide to Long Island Children’s Foot Health The school year is ending and that means your children’s days will be centered in soccer fields, back yards, swimming pools, beaches — wherever the latest summer adventures are happening. Those little feet will be splashing in and out of water, and […]
Toenail Fungus Can Make You Want To Keep Your Feet In The Sand
Toenail Fungus , What Is It ? Where Did I Get It? How Do I Treat It? Toenail Fungus, is no way to start your day. For many Americans though their day starts like this. So you woke up to a beautiful day to go to the beach on Long Island. Spent part of the […]
Foot Pain On Long Island : A Princesses Guide
Foot Pain On Long Island: A Princesses Guide On Long Island the only thing that seems to be approaching the heights of our taxes are the heights of our ladies heels and the foot pain that goes along with it. This fashion trend which certainly is not new, has certainly risen to new “heights” with […]
Bunions “the Bumpy Foot” Bones
Bunions : “The Case of the Long Island Bumpy Foot” It was a hot summer day many years ago when I first encountered a bunion . This was many years before I studied to become a podiatrist, on Long Island. Sitting on the boardwalk I happened to look down at the feet of the person […]