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Name That Fracture: Pott’s Fractures!

Posted by Jenn F. on Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Name That Fracture: Pott’s Fractures!

Some fractures just get named after the bone that is broken. For example, someone may say, "I was trying to seem like a cool dad by dancing to a Katy Perry video with my eight year old daughter and somehow ended up on my butt with a nasty ankle fracture." Or you could say, "I fractured my tibia at the ...

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Out of Joint: Crossover Toe Deformity

Posted by Jenn F. on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Out of Joint: Crossover Toe Deformity

I am an adequate swimmer. Not great, but put me in a pool during adult lap swim time and I can make it back and forth without drowning. I prefer to do the backstroke, but there's one problem--I seem unable to swim in a straight line while swimming the backstroke. Instead, I swim on a diagonal, eventually drifting to the ...

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You Have a Bunion. So What Shoes Can You Wear?

Posted by Jenn F. on Monday, July 2nd, 2012

You Have a Bunion. So What Shoes Can You Wear?

Bunions are one of the most common foot problems that people have to deal with. Whether you're still trying to decide whether you should have surgery, what kind of surgery to have, how to recover from surgery, or you are just simply looking for something to keep your bunions from getting worse, you still have to deal with shoes--unless you ...