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Protect Your Child’s Feet Against Sever’s Disease
Kids sometimes seem to move a mile per minute. Barely after learning to walk, they’re out running with friends, exploring their neighborhoods, and playing sports. And while cuts, scrapes, and bruises are just part of the package, kids are often pretty resilient...
Protect Your Child’s Feet from Plantar Warts
They say “sharing is caring,” and though that may be true for many things, when it comes to sharing nasty viral infections like plantar warts, this frame of mind certainly doesn’t apply. In fact, the mere thought of having a wart can be enough to make some peoples’...
Common Foot Problems Your Children Could Face
When it comes to foot care, treating kids can be quite different from treating their parents and grandparents! And it isn’t just because kids might be a little more scared or confused, either. Their feet themselves are not simply littler versions of adult feet but...
Why Is Pediatric Foot Care So Important?
There is no lack of items to be concerned about when you have a child. Are you feeding them properly? Are you cleaning them properly? Are they sleeping well enough? Getting enough exercise? Even when you have a moment of peace, you start to wonder if it’s too quiet....
Don’t Let Achilles Tendinitis Ruin Your Spring Activities
We know there are some of you out there who would go on running each week through the next Ice Age, but many people also tend to “hibernate” when it comes to physical activity in the winter. But now, the days are getting warmer, the sun is staying out longer, and the...
Top 3 Pediatric Foot Conditions (And What to Do About Them)
If you are parent, then you already know the routine – we tell our kids to brush their teeth before bed, to eat their vegetables before leaving the dinner table, and to wash behind their ears in the shower. But in the midst of this struggle, we often forget about...
Customize Your Comfort
This may come as a surprise to some, but your feet are actually one of the most fascinating parts of your body. Don’t believe it? Let us enlighten you. Just as with your hands and wrists, your feet and ankles are complicated structures—they contain more than 26 of the...
Leave Your Heel Pain in 2018
The months always seem to have flown by when we reach the end of a year. You blink and suddenly realize just how much time you have spent on things (work projects) or notspent on things (gym membership). But here’s a question for you: How many days this year did you...
Understanding the Most Common Heel Pain: Plantar Fasciitis
At all eight offices for our Chicagoland podiatry practice, we provide first-class treatment to help you overcome foot and ankle conditions and injuries. No matter what is causing you pain or difficulty in a lower limb, we look forward to creating a customized...