Yes, they do tend to help. However, there is a bit of a but here. Plantar fasciitis is a common, yet somewhat complex condition. There is not really one cure for everyone and the different responses of individuals to different treatments can vary...
The Fasciitis Fighter is a commercially available device to help with exercises for plantar fasciitis. It is based on the technique of doing heel or calf muscle raises with a towel rolled up under the toes. As rolling up a towel can be somewhat...
The Budin toe splint is a splint or brace that can be used to restrict movement of a toe or toes or to try to straighten or realign the toe. It is useful for a flexible hammer toe and claw toes. It is also used as a brace following surgery. The...
Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain in adults. The most common and typical symptom of plantar fasciitis is first step pain. This is pain under the heel that is worse when putting the foot on the ground after resting and improves...
The plantar fascia is a strong flat ligament on the bottom of the foot that connects the heel bone to the ball of the foot and is responsible for supporting the arch of the foot. Plantar fasciitis is a painful conditions in which the plantar fascia...
A Tailor’s bunion is an enlargement of the fifth metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the foot. It is the opposite if the traditional bunion that occurs on the medial side of the foot: It got the name “Tailor’s”...
Toe straighteners, toe spacers, toe braces, correct toes and toe splints come in multiple forms, materials, types and shapes. The terminology as to just what they are is also quite variable and there is certainly no standard definition of the...
Both gout and sesamoiditis cause pain in and around the big toe joint of the foot. That is about the only thing that they have in common. They are both two totally different entities caused by two totally different reasons and treated by totally...
Sesamoiditis is an inflammatory issue with the small sesamoid bones and related structures under the big toe joint of the foot. The main symptom is pain under the big toe joint on weightbearing and pain on palpation of the small sesamoid bones under...
Sesamoiditis is a reasonably common painful inflammation of the two sesamoid bones under the big toe joint in the foot. The cause of sesamoiditis is typically an overuse or overload type problem in a vulnerable foot. The treating of sesamoiditis...