TORONTO FOOT SPECIALISTS DISCUSSES BUNIONS
posted: Feb. 10, 2013.
BUNIONS ARE GENERALLY PROGRESSIVE IN NATURE, BROUGHT ABOUT BY YEARS OF ABNORMAL MOTION, AND PRESSURE OVER THE MTP JOINT. BUNIONS ARE MOST OFTEN SYMPTOMS OF FAULTY FOOT FUNCTION, THE WAY WE WALK, INHERITED FOOT TYPE AND/OR FOOTGEAR AGRAVATION. IT IS IMPORTANT TO CONSULT A FOOT SPECIALIST SUCH AS A CHIROPODIST AT THE FIRST SIGN OF PAIN OR DISCOMFORT IN THE MTP JOINT TO RECEIVE PROPER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.
CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT FOR BUNIONS INCLUDES CHANGING THE FOOTWEAR, ORTHOTICS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, TAPING AND/OR BRACING. WE NEVER RECOMMEND SURGERY JUST TO CORRECT THE APPEARANCE.S MANY TIMES YOU END UP WITH A FOOT THAT LOOKS NORMAL BUT IT IS NOW PAINFUL.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY DR. JOHN A. HARDY, OWNER OF ACADEMY FOOT AND ORTHOTIC CLINICS.