For Bone and Joint Action Week (Oct. 12th-20th) we thought it might be a good time to talk about how osteoporosis can affect your feet and ankles. After all, your feet have 26 bones each! As you get older, your bones begin to absorb calcium at a slower rate. For those who experience calcium loss at a faster rate…
At The New Jersey Children’s Foot Heath Institute, we know that your children’s health is extremely important to you. So today, we have a top tip for you: When it comes to your children’s feet, growing pains are not normal. Pain in the feet usually indicates that something is wrong. Without treatment, some pain may linger…
A patient presented this morning after injuring her ankle the other day, having slipped on some ice. While she was fortunate in that nothing appears to have been broken, people are often caught trying to decide on their own whether they’ve broken a bone or not, using that information to determine whether to seek professional…
Winter is here. 20+ inches of snow on Boxing Day in the northeast was Mother Nature’s holiday greeting to us all. It was light and fluffy, but still quite a chore to dig out, and with so much, there’s still plenty of slush and ice to make things dangerous for drivers. The most dangerous spots may well…
