Living with Ankle Arthritis & Foot Pain
Living with ankle arthritis can be challenging, but compelling evidence suggests that promptly addressing and managing ankle dysfunction can significantly improve long-term outcomes for adults and children.
8 Marathon Foot Care Tips: How to Prepare Your Feet For Your Next Marathon
Running a marathon is incredibly rewarding, but it may also potentially be hazardous for your feet. To ensure that your feet are in tip-top shape in time for a marathon, our lead podiatrist Tim Maiden shares his top 8 foot care tips for marathon runners.
Hammertoe Correction without Surgery
Early diagnosis can help manage hammertoe correction without surgery, especially in the early stages of the foot condition. Conservative, non-invasive management of the condition alleviates painful symptoms, supports your feet, and help return your toes – and feet – to their proper function.
Proper Foot Care to Prevent Diabetic Foot Infections
Everyone needs to be concerned about their feet as we age, and it is especially crucial for people with diabetes. Podiatrists are vital in that care process, helping to take care of issues like diabetic foot infection bacteria, ulcers, or Charcot Foot.
Heel Pain and Running: Does Footwear Play a Role?
Knowing the best running shoes for heel pain can possibly help you relieve pain from conditions such as plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendinopathy, as well as improve your overall musculoskeletal health. This article will explain how overuse injuries occur and the relationship between your shoes and your musculoskeletal health, as well as our leading podiatrist Tim Maiden’s favourite running shoe selections.
What Are the Benefits of Customised Insoles vs Over-the-Counter?
Custom insoles or over-the-counter inserts, that is the difficult question many people in Singapore may face when thinking about orthotics. An over-the-counter insert is made of prefabricated material. It is designed to fit into any shoe.
Preventive and Rehabilitative Exercises for Ankle Stability
Ankle injuries are exceedingly common among active populations [1]. The only way to prevent them is by keeping your feet and ankles strong. Bad ankle stability and ankle injuries can lead to other musculoskeletal conditions, misalignments in the body, knee pain, or lower back ache [2].
Why Foot and Ankle Stability Becomes More Important as We Age
Ankle problems are a pretty common injury that most people face at some point in their lives. The worst thing is that one small misstep or one bad landing can land you back in your ankle brace once again! Researchers have found that ankle ligament sprains are the most common injury among active populations.
There’s No Such Thing As Normal: Variety in Healthy Feet
There’s actually been surprisingly little research done on ‘normal’ feet in adults. Because feet are hidden away in shoes most of the time, we don’t see the natural variation the way we do with facial features or body shape.
To Stretch Or Not To Stretch?
Nobody can 100 percent say that stretching can directly decrease the risk of injury, but most podiatrists and other healthcare practitioners recognise stretching can have an indirect benefit via improving muscle tone and flexibility of the body. Stretching is one of the oldest forms of training with roots in martial arts, yoga, ballet/dance and performing arts such as gymnastics. So it must have some benefit!