If you dread walking because it hurts, or always planning your daily activities around walking, life can be difficult. Feet pain is one of the common reasons you limit going out or playing sports with friends and family. Your feet bears a lot of weight, while walking and running produces impact. Here are a few tips on how to avoid getting feet pain, so that you can move on with your life without problems.

Warm up before exercise

If you are not warm enough before you engage in a high intensity exercise,

Children’s feet grow fast, ask any parent with growing kids. They are also very active, from the day they learn how to walk, children enjoy exploring on their feet. If you have school- aged children, sports and outdoor activities are part of school life. Having feet problem is not uncommon, as your kids are on their feet a lot. Here are a few things to look out, so that you can nip the problem at its bud.

W- Sitting

As pictured above, W Sitting is when your legs are folded underneath the

History of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT)

Before it is a great tool to help with musculoskeletal problems such as  heel pain, tennis elbow and injuries, urologists use this therapy to help break the kidney stones into smaller pieces. Using a high- energy wave to generate waves of water that could break the stones, the doctors have been using ESWT for more than ten years. Eventually, more and more specialists wants to have a try at it, and the orthopedics department had tried to use it to remove a heel spur.

Sever’s …. what is it?

Your child wakes up one day complaining of sudden heel pain. At first you aren’t too worried; after all, you’ve endured heel pain yourself and it usually goes away after you walk around for a bit. However, your child is still in pain after walking around, and it seems as if the pain might be worsening. A few days go by and the pain is still there, and your child is walking on her toes and limping. Why is this happening, and what should you do