Common Foot Ailments

The Foot and What Ails It.

Feet are wonderful feats of engineering! They are a strong yet flexible complex mechanical structure, a collection of 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 muscles and tendons per foot. The 52 bones in your feet make up 25% of all the bones in your body. They stand, walk and run us around our daily lives.

But there are a surprising number of things that can go wrong with our feet!

Some things are environmental and some are, unfortunately, genetic and sometimes, frequently, it’s a little bit of both! Either way, you don’t always have to suffer through it. Most times we can alleviate your symptoms and get you moving again!

Environmental Factors

There are many factors that can effect the health of your feet. These include, but are not limited to:

• weight;
• age & mileage;
• accident;
• overuse;
• extreme sports;
• pregnancy, which loosens the ligaments;

Conditions that can develop as a result of these combined factors, include, but are not limited to:

• plantar fasciitis;
• Achilles endinopaty;
• Charcot Foot;
• Diabetes Mellitus;
• pronation;
• Morton’s Foot Syndrome;
• Morton’s Neuroma;
• Metatarsalgia;
• Osteoarthritis;
• Rheumatoid Arthritis;
• Sesamoiditis;
• Shin Splints;
• etc.

Please follow the links to find out more about these and more common foot disorders.