You have extensor tendons in your hands and feet, and they help you move your fingers and toes. The tendons in your feet attach at the muscles at the front of your leg and run across the top of your feet to your toes, leaving them with very little protection from injury. We’ll talk about […]
Is Taping Helpful For Chronic Ankle Instability?
Ankle taping can help to provide support to your ankles during athletic activity, but it’s a little like putting a band-aid on a stab wound. While it may help a little, it’s really not going to due much for the underlying problem. Taping can provide a little extra support, but it’s not going to help […]
Running Shoes and Injury Prevention
There are few activities that we humans are born innately knowing how to do, but counted among them is running. By and large, as babies begin to crawl, then toddle, and then walk, soon after they hit the ground running — quite literally — and don’t look back. It’s as though we are born with […]
Cartiva Implant Helps Athlete Become An All-American
As we’ve mentioned on the blog in the past, Dr. Silverman is one of if not the foremost expert on the Cartiva implant in the greater Twin Cities area. A number of the patients he’s helped with the procedure are older, active adults who are starting to feel the effects of big toe arthritis. However, […]
What Causes Ankle Arthritis?
When you hear the term arthritis, you probably think about it affecting your knee or the small joints in your hand, but arthritis is also pretty common in your ankles. Arthritis develops when the cartilage in your joints degenerates, making movements difficult and more painful. Since your ankle joints are used so frequently on a […]
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