How’re you sleeping lately? If you’re like most people, turning off the stimulus of the day isn’t always an easy process.
Why Do Your Feet Itch?
Category: Foot Care
5 Ways Your Smartphone Can Help You Manage Diabetes
With the introduction of the iPhone around 2007, the word “app” became synonymous with something that could make our life easier. So it is with apps that help people with medical conditions like diabetes.
What Should You Do about Swollen Feet?
With the exception of injury, you can try home treatment when the reason for foot swelling seems clear. These include walking around to get your circulation going, resting with your legs propped up higher than your heart, and limiting your intake of salt (which encourages water retention).
4 Compelling Reasons to Visit a Foot Doctor
Happy New Year to our friends, families, patients, and future patients! At Montgomery Foot Care Specialists, we want you to be aware of some very specific situations that warrant a visit to the podiatrist.
Resolve to Treat Your Feet Well in 2019
When was the last time you made a New Year’s resolution about your feet? Never? Well, our expert podiatrists would be ecstatic if “foot care” resolutions became as common as taking out gym memberships and stocking up on fresh vegetables!
5 Tips for People Who Stand All Day Long
Teachers, nurses, and cashiers could tell you all about their aching feet. So could hairdressers, pastry chefs, and mail carriers. These are people who spend a lot of time standing up on the job. If you spend the bulk of your day vertical as these folks do, it’s normal for your feet to feel tired. […]
What the Great American Smokeout Means to Your Feet
Smokers have known about the dangers of cigarettes since the 1960s. That’s when Congress put an official warning on cigarette packages that smoking involves very real health risks. Little kids from coast to coast have been taught this in school for decades. We’ve all seen the side-by-side lung samples – one fresh, pink, and healthy; […]
What Your Feet Want You to Pack for Vacation
If you’re planning a last hurrah summer vacation or a fall getaway, Dr. Chanda L. Day Houts and Dr. Heidi M. Christie encourage you to start thinking about how your feet will feel about it. Hopefully, your vacation will be a time to relax and recharge. But whether you travel to your destination by plane, […]
6 Strategies to Get You Through Montgomery Restaurant Week
If you like great food and drink, then August is a great month to be in Montgomery, Alabama. For 10 days, from August 10-19, you and all of us here at Montgomery Foot Care Specialists have the opportunity to explore some new tastes and nab some great deals at restaurants and cafés all across the […]
Dos and Don’ts of Mowing the Lawn
Do people learn from history? Or are we doomed to repeat it, as the pundits say? At Montgomery Foot Care Specialists, we like to think that humans are always striving to improve themselves – changing their behavior in order to avoid the unpleasantness, difficulty, or danger of the past. Unfortunately, learning from mistakes – either […]