The Whole Foot Book: A Complete Program for Taking Care of Your Feet - Softcover

Brett Ryan Fink; Mark S. Mizel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936303248 ISBN 13: 9781936303243

Publisher: Demos Health, 2012

Synopsis

Foot pain and injuries can thwart everyone from the athlete to even the weekend warrior. While many books review basic foot and ankle conditions, "The Whole Foot Book" offers numerous solutions for each problem, as there is no one best solution - different treatments work for different feet. This comprehensive resource covers footwear basics, prevention, and treatments along with clear diagrams, photos, and charts that demonstrate techniques and solutions. It covers common foot problems faced by diabetics, seniors, and athletes, including bunions, hammer toes, corns, calluses, warts, and skin maladies. It also features a chapter on choosing the proper footwear, gives advice on when to seek professional attention and helps you to understand when foot surgery is not and is not necessary, and highlights recent advances in foot surgery. But "The Whole Foot Book" goes further and addresses less common issues including neuropathy, blood clots, and HIV/Aids among others. The book really covers the whole foot. It addresses the most common sources of foot pain including nail conditions, skin conditions, heel spurs, bunions and swelling. It provides detailed step-by-step instructions for self-care of skin and nails. It helps you to understand when foot surgery is not and is not necessary. It provides easy-to-understand explanations of the causes of foot pain.

About this title

About the Author

Brett Ryan Fink, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon currently in private practice in Indianapolis, IN for the last 11 years and is President of the Indiana Orthopedic Center. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Washington University School of Medicine. He is a veteran of the US Navy and the Persian Gulf War. He completed his orthopedic residency at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. He was a foot and ankle fellow under Dr. Mizel at Boston University and the University of Miami. Mark Stuart Mizel, MD, has been a practicing foot and ankle specialist for over twenty-five years. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Tufts University. He is a veteran of the US Navy and former naval aviator. He has held academic positions at Tufts, Johns Hopkins, and Boston Universities and at the University of Miami. He is the editor of five scholarly orthopedic books and author of over seventy research and review articles. He has been in practice as an academic orthopedic foot and ankle specialist for over twenty-five years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Demos Health
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936303248
• ISBN 13: 9781936303243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208