What is methyl salicylate, and does it work?

You limp into the pharmacy or the shops, most staff will point you to the direction of products like Dencorub or Metsal. Both products have the same telltale smell, the smell of wintergreen oil. Wintergreen is an extract of a plant call Gaultheria procumbens, but birch trees also produce the same compound. As it is easier and cheaper to produce in the laboratory, Methyl Salicylic Acid (or Methyl salicylate) is now a synthetic product. In heat rubs, the few common friends of the

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,

Morton’s Neuroma is happens when the nerve tissue between the 3rd and 4th toes becomes thick and inflammed. We sometimes refer them as intermetatarsal neuroma as they can develop at the ball of the foot, between the metatarsal bones. However, it is common for neuromas to appear in any location in the foot, secondary to factors such as foot wear and genetic predisposition.

What Causes Neuroma

Morton’s Neuroma is the result of chronic compression or irritation to the nerve, causing it to swell. It is the body’s response to protect the nerve

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

It is terrible when you suffer a running injury: first you are unable to train, and then you are also feeling pain when you walk. When you are injured, it is hard to keep training, as the pain can discourage you from putting 100% in. All the hard work that you put in disappears within a week if you stop. Hence, you have to find ways to prevent getting a running injury while you train. Studies show that running injury is common, 75% will suffer from an injury that takes

The 3 Foot Issues that You Should NOT Self- Treat

There are a lot of home remedies out there that offers to help treat or cure illness and common complaints. You may feel tempted to try some of the remedies, because you think that what you have it not very serious. While some, such as corn and calluses are perfectly good candidates for home remedies, here are three foot problems that you should not treat yourself. Aside from delaying the inevitable, you may worsen the problem using the home remedies that

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.

You Don’t Have To Break Into New Shoes

There are a lot of remedies and tips on how you can make your new shoes more comfortable to wear, from putting ice to stretch out the leather to wear the heels indoors until your new shoes feel comfortable, these hints serve to help stop feet pain in your new fashionable footwear. Unfortunately, these tips are wrong in one important point: shoes do not need breaking into.

Shoe that Fits the Feet

A pair of good quality shoes will fit since the day you put