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What Is a Plantar Plate Tear? Forefoot Pain You Shouldn’t Ignore
If you’ve ever felt a nagging pain in the ball of your foot, under a toe, or noticed your toe drifting out of place, you might be dealing...
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Apr 172 min read
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Maximizing Your Potential: How Podiatry Can Elevate Your New Year's Fitness Resolutions
As the New Year begins, many people become enthusiastic about new fitness aspirations. You might want to run your first 5K, join a...
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Jan 163 min read
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Foot Exercises for Balance, Strength, Mobility and Foot posture: Insights from a Recent Study on Foot Exercise.
At Ayres Health, we often recommend foot exercises to our patients. Recently, an interesting study by Anna Gabriel et al. shed light on...
AyresHealth
Oct 16, 20243 min read
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Wet weather feet: From toenail trouble to trench foot. Why soggy socks are no laughing matter!
As the rain pours down outside, it’s easy to forget the potential dangers lurking beneath our damp footwear. Wet feet might seem like a...
AyresHealth
Oct 1, 20242 min read
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Wimbledon ready: Prevent foot & leg injury this tennis season.
Wimbledon, the pinnacle of tennis tournaments, inspires many to dust off their rackets and head to the courts. While the thrill of...
AyresHealth
Jul 10, 20243 min read
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Festival feet: Your guide to festival foot comfort
With Festival season here, prepare for extended periods on your feet, whether you're standing to enjoy a band, walking between stages, or...
AyresHealth
Jun 26, 20242 min read
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Life in a puddle: plantar hyperhidrosis (sweaty feet)
Do you sweat more than what seems normal, even when you're not hot or exercising? If so, you may be one of the millions of people who...
AyresHealth
May 22, 20242 min read
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Step into Spring: A spotlight on musculoskeletal foot health
As flowers start to bloom and the days grow longer, it's almost time to put those winter boots away and step into spring with a renewed...
AyresHealth
Mar 20, 20243 min read
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Gait ReTraining, Changing The Way You Move
What is it? Gait Re-Education is changing the way you run or walk to reduce stress on injuries. This is a long-term process that...
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Jan 8, 20243 min read
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2023 roundup - Steroid injections, gait-retraining & more.
We blinked and 2023 is almost over! We hardly had time to stop as we’ve been so busy this year both in clinic and behind the scenes...
AyresHealth
Dec 18, 20232 min read
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A thorn in the toe: Unearthing the facts about ingrown toenails
Many people will be familiar with that sharp, throbbing pain, usually in the big toe, that seems to appear out of nowhere. The ingrown...
AyresHealth
Oct 12, 20233 min read
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The Heart and Sole Connection: Exploring the Link Between Feet and Heart
Believe it or not there is a close connection between our feet and heart. September is vascular disease awareness month, so we decided to...
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Sep 20, 20233 min read
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Football Feet
During a 90-minute game of football, intense periods of play include sprinting, quick changes of direction, sudden stops, ball kicking...
AyresHealth
Aug 16, 20233 min read
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Podiatrists talk Tennis
Put your feet up and grab the strawberries & cream. With Wimbledon just around the corner, this post will cover all things tennis. From...
AyresHealth
Jun 21, 20232 min read
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Engineering of the foot: The windlass mechanism
Leonardo da Vinci famously said ‘The foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art’. This article investigates a specific...
AyresHealth
May 10, 20233 min read
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Plantar fasciitis (Heel Pain)
How to say it? Plantar fasciitis is a bit of a 'Worcester Sauce' name; everyone knows it but not many know how to pronounce it. The full...
AyresHealth
Mar 15, 20233 min read
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Big toe arthritis (Hallux Rigidus)
Big toe arthritis or ‘Hallux rigidus’ is a condition occurring at the joint where your big toe attaches to your foot called the 1st...
AyresHealth
Feb 9, 20232 min read
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2022 Roundup. Clinic upgrades & celebrations.
Wow, 2022 seems to have flown by! And what a year it’s been. The country has seen 3 prime ministers, 2 monarchs, a record-breaking heat...
AyresHealth
Dec 16, 20222 min read
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Diabetic Neuropathy: Nerve damage in the feet.
November is Diabetes awareness month. This blog highlights peripheral neuropathy, which affects up to half of people with Diabetes and 1...
AyresHealth
Nov 25, 20222 min read
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Menopause and foot health
As podiatrists, many patients we see in our Congleton podiatry clinic are women over the age of 45. There’s no clear start or end point...
AyresHealth
Oct 19, 20223 min read
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