Our Podiatrist’s Guide to Healthy Winter Feet
While our Texas weather is fairly mild, it’s still tough to maintain healthy winter feet. As temperatures drop, you may turn on the heat in your home, leaving you with dry skin that can crack your heels. You’ll also likely run into a rainy day or two. So you may be wearing those rubber Hunter…
What Causes Inside of Foot Pain?
When you’re experiencing inside of foot pain, you want relief. But before we can help your feet feel better, we have to determine the true source of your foot pain. So we can target your treatment and keep you walking comfortably. Fortunately, getting to the bottom of your foot pain is what we do best.…
The Best Way to Get Safe Pedicures
Sometimes, you just need to relax and get your toenails looking pretty with safe pedicures. Maybe you’re avoiding salons, because of the cost or safety concerns. Or maybe you’re just crunched for time and squeezing in a home pedicure between work, virtual school and preparing those endless meals and snacks. We get it. But we…
What is a Podiatrist and When Should I See One?
If you’ve never been to see your podiatrist, you may wonder what role this specialist plays. Put simply, a podiatrist is a doctor. But instead of an MD, he or she receives a DPM degree. And a DPM is both a doctor and a surgeon, trained to treat foot, ankle, toes and certain leg conditions.…
11 Ways to Stop Diabetes from Hurting Your Feet
When you have diabetes, even small foot conditions can cause major problems. That’s why you need to include an experienced podiatrist on your diabetic care team. At our Spring and Tomball, TX podiatric offices, we’ve really focused on diabetic foot care. We help protect our diabetic patients from complications. These include foot infection, foot ulcers,…
Why Custom Orthotics beat Dr Scholls Inserts Every Time
In our office, we provide many patients with custom orthotics. There are so many times when our bodies don’t work the way they should. And this can cause so many types of foot pain. Thankfully, surgery isn’t your only pain relief solution: custom shoe inserts can really help! At our Spring and Tomball, TX podiatry…
What You Need to Know about Running with Flat Feet
Is running with flat feet painful? So many of our patients want to know the answer to that question. So, here it is: it can be painful to run when you have flat feet. Thankfully, our Louetta Foot and Ankle Specialists team has tools to minimize or eliminate that pain. But before we tell you…
These are the Best and Worst Shoes for Home
By this point in the pandemic, you may have spent a lot of time walking around your house barefoot. And that may be a problem because, when you walk barefoot, you can negatively affect the physical function of your foot. You see, our feet have arches, and walking barefoot, especially on hard surfaces, makes those…
3 Tips to Prevent Kids’ Ingrown Toenails
It’s back to school season here in Houston. And whether the kids are leaving your house, or taking school online, the change in season means a change in shoes–and a higher risk for ingrown toenails! We’re guessing that your kids spent most of the summer in sandals. That meant you never had to worry about…
How to Get the Perfect Kids Shoes for Back to School
Can we talk about kids shoes? It’s almost time for school again, parents. Yes, you’ve made it through the long and strange summer. And now it’s time to get the kids back into the classroom. Which means, whether they’re going virtual or in person, it’s time to get them some new shoes. Most likely, the…
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