When you plant your foot and experience pain after making a lateral move while playing tennis, soccer, basketball, or any other sport, it can be cause for concern. Sports injuries can be a real bummer, especially if you think a surgical procedure will be needed to address the issue. The good news is that nonsurgical foot injury treatment is often quite successful, which is one of the reasons we don’t “rush to the knife” here at Family Foot and Ankle Center!

Yoga is an ancient Indian discipline (actually, a group of disciplines) said to promote physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing through the practice of meditation, discipline, and control of the body. While it’s not our job to evaluate the metaphysical, we can say that practicing yoga can and does provide some significant benefits for those who practice it, and those benefits include pain relief and better overall foot health.

Here at our Cincinnati-area podiatry offices, we see a lot of people with stiff, painful, even deformed joints in their feet. This includes conditions like bunions and hammertoes, as well as rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions.