A splinter in your foot is no fun. It can cause pain, especially when you put weight on the foot with the splinter. Of more concern, however, is that the splinter could have introduced bacteria or ...

Are your heels feeling extra leather-y these days? A foot doctr shares how to use a pumice stone as part of a healthy footcare routine. It’s almost boot season and if your feet feel like cracked ...

Foot problems are common with diabetes. These include calluses. Certain things you do can either help or hinder the healing of foot calluses if you have diabetes. If you have any symptoms of a ...

Pain on the bottom of your foot can be due to your activities, such as jobs that keep you on your feet or sports like running. The structure of your foot or the shoes you wear also can contribute to ...

While running and walking come with plenty of health benefits, being on your feet for extended periods of time also has some secondary consequences, according to board-certified dermatologist Dr.

For most of our 200,000 years of existence as a species, humans have walked the planet barefoot. It’s only in the last 40,000 years that shoes have come into style. We evolved to feel the ground under ...

A tendon is a type of body tissue that connects muscle to bone. If a tendon becomes inflamed — painful and swollen — the condition is called tendonitis. In your hands, there are so-called extensor ...