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What to Do When Your Teen Has Heel Pain
Most active adults—even the ones who take good care of themselves physically—are accustomed to dealing with occasional aches and pains. Serious pain is never normal, of course, but a little soreness after a big run isn’t much to worry about. But when a teenager is...
Why Your Heels Hurt So Badly in the Morning
Most of the time, pain, soreness, and stiffness come at the end of a hard day or a burst of exertion. You start the day fresh, but after a long day at work or a few hours on the basketball court, you’ve lost the spring in your step and your body needs to recuperate....
What Are the Advantages of Custom Orthotics?
You can find padded insoles and name-brand shoe inserts just about anywhere these days—pharmacies, convenience stores, major retailers. The slickest of the bunch will boast on the packaging about anti-bacterial coating, space-age foam construction, and other apparent...
4 Things You Need to Know About Wound Care
No matter who you are, or what circumstances you have in your life, it is impossible to overstate the importance of minding your physical health. When there is a problem—like a wound—it needs to be addressed, plain and simple. Failure to do so can result in bigger...
What’s Causing My Heel Pain?
Two people can walk into our office complaining of very similar heel pain symptoms. Yet as we carefully examine their feet and listen to their symptom descriptions, we often discover that they have completely different diagnoses and consequently, completely different...
Stay in the Game: Sports Injury Solutions
For athletes, runners, dancers, and other active individuals, any time off from your sports of choice is too long. We get it: sitting by the sidelines is no fun, whether you play alone or have teammates counting on you. Yet try to do too much, or play through pain...
Correcting Ingrown Toenails
An ingrown toenail can be extremely distressing for any number of reasons. One, they hurt. Two, they can make your toe so sensitive it’s hard to even put on shoes. Three, they can open the door to a dangerous bacterial infection, or an unsightly and embarrassing...
End Your Heel Spur Pain
Stabbing, aching, frustrating heel pain can keep you from living the lifestyle you desire. Work and chores are miserable, and you have no energy or desire for activities you used to love. Although there are many possible causes of heel pain, one that people often ask...
Recover From Injuries Faster
One of our primary objectives at Omega Medical Group (OMG) is keeping you as active as possible—both by devising treatment programs that allow you to continue to exercise, and by employing procedures and technologies that help shorten the overall recovery process. We...
Pain Relief with Stem Cell Therapy
Medical technology has come a long way, even in just the last few decades. Thanks to new innovations, we’re able to offer patients a range of existing new conservative treatment options that are helping them overcome even the toughest, most resilient pain—all without...
Diabetic Wound Care
Diabetic wounds are, by far, the leading cause of lower limb amputations for reasons other than trauma. Every year, as many as 100,000 Americans will lose a toe, foot, or more as a result of infected wounds that got out-of-control and may have only started with a...
Stretches to Help Prevent Plantar Fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain in adults, with about 3 million cases per year in the United States alone. Stabbing pain with the first few steps of the morning is the most classic symptom—it’s enough to make you want to stay in bed all day!...