Our Two Feet: Kids Edition OUR TWO FEET Foot and Ankle Education For The Community

Indiana Common Foot and Ankle Podiatry Group Problems In Children We have been providing central Indiana with ! advanced and Kids can experience foot pain and injuries just like compassionate foot and adults. Foot and ankle problems in kids are quite ankle care since 1993. common, and usually should be properly treated to Our Staff avoid future potential issues later in life. This article will discuss common issues kids have with Scott Schulman DPM, their feet and ankles, and how these conditions are FACFAS often treated. Scott Kilberg DPM, FACFAS Ingrown Toenails! Karl Fulkert DPM, Ingrown toenails in kids generally occur due to genetic factors that cause AACFAS the nail to become ingrown from the start during development in the Sarah Viselli DPM, womb, as opposed to many adults who develop ingrown toenails later in life AACFAS from pressure and damage to the nail that causes the root cells growing nail to deform and grow the nail inward. Vasilios Spyropoulos The ingrown shape of the nail itself is not usually a DPM problem, unless skin next to it becomes inflamed. Once inflamed, the skin is sensitive, and the nail growing into it Our Locations can cause pain at that point. Bacteria can also become trapped, leading to infection and drainage. Children can irritate the skin next to the nail quite easily through Indianapolis rough play, clumsy object handling, as well as poorly Noblesville fitting shoes during growth periods. Because of the shape of the nail, persistent issues of the ingrown nail is to Fishers/Saxony be expected over the years, and it is often not enough to simply treat with antibiotics, soaking, and even partially removing the side of the nail. Tipton Permanent removal of the side of the nail by chemically destroying the nail Connersville root cells is the best way to get permanent relief. The results are excellent, the procedure is quick and easy to perform in the office, and it is rare for complications to develop. Richmond ! !

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Heel Pain! human papilloma virus infection, warts are often painful because the usual place one becomes Heel pain is one of the most common reasons infected by the virus is why children come to see a podiatrist. Heel pain through exposure while is common in all age groups, but in children, and walking barefoot, leading even adolescents, the cause of the pain is vastly to most foot warts being different than that seen in adults. While in adults located on the bottom of heel pain is typically caused by inflammation of a the foot. The callus that ligament in the arch (plantar fasciitis) or in the results with the wart can Achilles tendon depending on the location of the cause pain from the pain, heel pain in kids is usually caused by pressure of walking on it, although some warts inflammation in a growth plate in the heel bone. cause no pain. Treatment of these warts involves This is also known as Sever’s disease, and it is tricking the immune system into finding and common during late destroying the virus, and not directly destroying childhood and early the wart itself as many people often assume. The adolescence. It is viral is spread further than just where the wart can often seen in athletic be seen, and simply ‘cutting out’ the wart does not children. Those that lead to a cure. Chemical treatment with a mild participate in year- skin acid is the most commonly employed round sports seem to technique, and it essentially causes light amount be the most likely to of inflammation in the skin around the wart get it. The Achilles which eventually stimulates an immune response tendon is often part of in the body that results in the formation of the problem, as it can pull directly on the growth immune cells that will directly kill the virus. plate in the heel bone. Tightness of the Achilles Freezing treatment can result in the same tendon can worsen this pull, and lead to bone response, but