Podiatrists are experts for your feet
Experience is the name of the game in medicine. With 25 years of experience and continuing medical education, Dr. Fawcettt has what it takes to diagnose and treat your foot ailments.
He can handle your sports and over-use injuries. Do you have pain in your feet or heels, read on to understand some reasons why and be briefed on how to talk to Dr. Fawcett when you see him.
Concerned about a Neuroma, Bunion, Athletes Foot, or Plantar warts? See Dr. Fawcett for a diagnosis and treatment. Use this lens to help you understand the possibilities so you can ask better questions during your exam by Dr. Fawcett.
Dr. Fawcett's contact information is in one of the modules below.
Ask a Podiatrist Anything
Dr Fawcett answers your questions
- Ask Dr. Fawcett Anything
- An opportunity to ask questions and get answers in real time. Mark your calendar for August 5, 2009 at 830 PM EST
Dr. Bruce Fawcett discusses when and why to go to a Podistrist
Podiatrist, the person who wants to hear you complain about your sore feet.
Contact Dr. Bruce Fawcett
Podiatry in Chapel Hill, NC or Raleigh, NC
- Contact or arrange an appointment with Dr. Fawcett
- Home page for Dr. Bruce Fawcett Podiatrist
- American Podiatric Medical Association
- Information page for the American Podiatric Medical Association
Ask a Podiatrist Anything
Dr. Bruce Fawcett answers listeners questons
- Ask A Podiatrist Anything
- Answers to listeners questions were recorded and are available for you to hear. If you like what you hear, let us know by leaving a comment or question in the guest book below. Thanks, enjoy!
HammerToe
Involuntary bending of one or both joints of your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and/or 5th toes.
Abnormal bending of the toe joints puts pressure on the end of the toe. This causes pain and trouble wearing shoes or getting shoes fitted. It can also cause thick, hard, painful callouses called corns on the top or end of the toes where extra pressure is applied. Normal softer callouses may occur between the toes and on the bottoms of the feet near toe joints.The hammertoe abnormality is a slow developing deformity that progressively worsens. It can become so severe that the joints dislocate. This really causes pain to increase. It is important to treat this problem early while toes are flexible and will respond to none surgical methods.
It is thought that an imbalance in the flexor (those that bend the toes) and extensor (those that straighten the toes) muscles causes the hammertoe deformity. It is aggravated by a number of issues like improperly fitted shoes or by trauma or injures to the tendons or bones.
What kind of treatment your Podiatrist or Foot Doctor selects depends upon the severity of the hammertoe deformity along with other factors like your other health problems.
It will probably include trimming corns and callouses, padding, changes in shoe wear, and perhaps orthotic devices. Measures to treat or prevent worsening, heal sores and prevent infection will be very important. Sometimes strapping and splinting is necessary also.
Surgery may be necessary for rigidly deformed hammertoes. These are procedures called arthroplasty or arthrodesis. There are other procedures that may be employed to correct the muscle imbalance and relieve the pain and pressure caused by the hammertoe deformity.
If your toes a stiff and won't straighten, you may need a podiatrist to help you. If you live in the Triangle area of North Carolina, call Dr. Fawcett.
Dr. Fawcett discusses Plantar Fasciitis or Heel Pain
Plantar Fasciitis
Adult Heel Pain
Plantar Fasciitis is the medical name for nontraumatic heel pain that is slowly progressive.
Sound Familiar?
Inflammation in the body is indicated by the suffix "itis". In the case of heel pain that occurs in the bottom or sole of the foot as I described above, the inflammation is in the plantar fascia. So, the condition is called Plantar fasciitis.
There are other causes for heel pain, so this is not to help you diagnose and treat your problem. This is intended to help you become better informed and able to ask better questions of your medical doctor or your foot doctor or podiatrist.
There are many factors contributing to this heel pain. Some of them are shoes with no support, prolonged standing, being overweight or obese, hard flat floors, flat arches, or very high arches. To treat this type of heel pain, the podiatrist has to eliminate other causes of pain, try to decide what caused this pain, and then fix the cause and treat the problem.
Therapies include Ice when resting, Stretching often through out the day, supportive footwear, limit activities on your feet, possibly medication by mouth or injected directly into the heel, weight loss and sometimes night splints, foot strapping, and ultrasonic therapy.
If you have tried conservative measures like stretching, ice, and ibuprofen without relief, you should get expert advice from someone like Dr. Fawcett.
Dr. Bruce Fawcett discusses and explains Bunions
Bunions - a pain in your big toe joint
Dr. Fawcett can not be your podiatrist unless you see him personally, but he would answer your questions.
Let us know you visited and ask questions about your foot or feet.
Often your usual health care provider does not have enough time to answer all your questions and you often don't want to ask about sore feet. Ask your foot related questions here. While Dr. Fawcett's answer are not intended to treat you and he is not trying to be your podiatrist over the web, he does want you to be better informed so that when you do see your doctor or podiatrist you can ask better questions and be better informed. So, here is your chance to get more information.
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