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Sharon Hopkins's Articles in Foot Health

  • Healing Cracked Heels
    According to statistics, an average person walks around 6500 km in his lifetime. So you can imagine how much stress your feet go through in one lifetime. Cracked heels are due to years of neglect; hence do not expect positive results in two days.

    - Common cause for Cracked Heels

    • Standing for long periods of time
    • Being overweight
    • Open backed shoes
    • Medical condition which causes drying of the skin, prevalent in diabetes
    • Skin conditions like psoriasis and ecz...
  • Smelly Feet – Blame The Bacteria
    There are two simple and straight forward reasons for having smelly feet one is the kind of shoe you wear and the other is the sweating of your feet. Sweating is an important process which helps to maintain our body temperature. It helps to remove waste products from our body, but sometime these smells become unbearable. Some individuals perspire more than the required amount to cool the body. This is known as Hyperhidrosis. Every foot has more than 250,000 sweat glands, so y...
  • Plantar Fasciitis – Reason Behind The Harrowing Heel Pain
    Plantar Fascia is the tight band of muscle placed beneath the arch of the foot. It is the connecting tissue which holds the arch foot and extends to the forefoot. This inflammation of plantar fascia is the main cause of pain for plantar fasciitis. It is known as one of the most common reasons for heel pain and very commonly known as heel spur. Excessive stretching of plantar fascia causes the heel pain, arch pain and heel spurs.

    Causes of Plantar Fasciitis

    -The increasi...

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