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Share Children’s shoes are made with such poor insoles, that it is often necessary to buy children insoles that have arch support, heel cups and other healthy features. The following four kids arch support insoles are sold at HealthyFeetStore.com: KidZerts, Bambini, Arch Angels and Birkenstock. I interviewed Dr. Jeff Hurless, a foot and ankle surgeon, [...]

Share As the weather warms up and more people head outdoors to work out, shin splints become increasingly common. Why do people get these pains? How do you know if you have a shin splint? What is the best way to treat them? I asked Barbara Adams, our HealthyFeetStore.com pedorthist, for the answers. What are shin splints? The [...]

Share This new “barefoot running” fad is blowing up. Articles and web sites regarding this “new and healthy” way of running can be found all over the Internet. So I interviewed Dr. Jeff Hurless, a foot and ankle surgeon, podiatrist, partial owner and medical director of HealthyFeetStore.com, to get the facts straight about barefoot running. A [...]

Share We at HealthyFeetStore.com are always working hard to improve our business so that customers can get the best of everything: great orthopedic shoes, fantastic podiatrist approved foot care products, and stellar customer service.  We also do our best to share with our customers everything that is newsworthy; from the latest information about our company [...]

Share Did you know that every 20 seconds someone is diagnosed with diabetes and according to some surveys the number of diabetics is rapidly increasing in the United States?  In addition, being a diabetic may increase your risk of experiencing common foot problems. The HealthyFeetBlog.com would like to share some valuable information about diabetes and [...]

Share November is National Diabetes Month® and the HealthyFeetBlog.com is joining the American Diabetes Association in their movement to Stop DiabetesSM. This month most of our blog posts will be related to diabetes and your feet. Today we are thrilled to have a guest blogger, Hai-En Peng, DPM, AACFAS sharing with us daily care tips to avoid [...]

Share Reader Question: Dear HealthyFeetStore.com Blog, I have been a competitive Irish dancer for 10 years and last August I started to have intense pain in the arch/bottom of my foot ONLY when dancing. Irish dancing requires a lot of pounding with your feet in shoes that do no offer much in the way of [...]

Share Reader Question: Dear HealthyFeetStore.com Blog, I am the mother of a 3 1/2 year old boy. His left leg pronates more than his right and his right foot seems to be flatter than the other one. When I ask him to put his ankles together for me his left knee sticks inward. I’ve heard [...]

Share An anonymous reader sent us a couple of questions about using children’s arch supports. We are posting the questions and Dr. Hurless’ answers in case there are any other HealthyFeetStore.com Blog readers who would also find the information useful. Reader Question #1: How do I know when to replace my daughter’s arch support? Podiatrist [...]