OK, so you were getting really into The Night Before Christmas and you thought you heard “the prancing and pawing of each little hoof” up on your roof. But before you could get to the window to tear open the shutters and throw up the sash you smashed your toe into the bedpost. Um, owwwww! Soon your …
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When a person is less than fleet footed, they may have heard jokingly that they were flat footed. Usually that wasn’t the problem; it was more a lack of fast twitch muscles. The condition of having flatfoot is an actual foot problem where the arches on the inside of the foot are flattened. This allows …
Sprained ankles are common injuries, especially in active people. It’s easy to roll, twist, or turn your ankle in an awkward way when you’re out and about. But there are some misperceptions about sprained ankles, and we’d like to clear some of those up in this November blog for Foot & Ankle Clinics of Utah. …
Our veins are tasked with returning de-oxygenated blood to the heart. You can think of them as being akin to one-way highways. Valves in the veins ensure the one-way flow of this bluish, purple blood (because it lacks oxygen). They prevent backflow. But in our legs, our veins have an entirely uphill route back to …
Our Utah summers aren’t long enough for most of us to get out there as much as we’d like. We all try to sandwich as much activity into the four or so months of warm, balmy weather because we know the snow is coming. That can lead to lots of sports injuries. Some come from …
Just about everyone has sprained their ankle at one time or another, but there is some misunderstanding about what’s involved. Is it a muscle thing or a ligament thing? Are the bones involved? Since we see lots of severely sprained ankles at our five Foot & Ankle Clinics locations, let’s get into what happens with …
