(703) 996 – 3000
6101 Redwood Square Centre #303
Centreville, VA 20121
(703) 996 – 3000
6101 Redwood Square Centre #303
Centreville, VA 20121
Josh Allen, the quarterback for the Buffalo Bills football team, was sidelined in mid-December due to a foot sprain. But if you had read past the headlines and initial paragraphs, you would have learned that Allen was also suffering from turf toe. What’s the difference?A foot sprain is a general term for damage to one…
Don’t sweat it if you still have holiday shopping to do. With Christmas just a few days away, Clifton Foot & Ankle Center has several easy gift-giving suggestions that focus on healthy feet. Here’s where to go and what to look for: Big-box store – Go to the sports section to find gifts that keep your loved ones…
What brings a pretty large percentage of patients to our podiatry office in Centreville, Virginia? Heel pain. Very often, the pain is due to a condition called plantar fasciitis. What is plantar fasciitis?Any word ending in “-itis” indicates something is inflamed. In this case, that “something” is the plantar fascia – the thick band of…
The human body changes over time, and that includes the feet. Some changes aren’t surprising: soft tissues lose their elasticity, limiting how much you can stretch or move your feet and ankles arches can fall a little or a lot (flat feet) protective fat pads thin out arthritis may affect joints you injured earlier in…
Clifton Foot & Ankle Center in Fairfax County, Virginia, is proud to offer Swift: a game-changing treatment for annoying plantar warts. For decades, podiatrists have approached wart treatment from the outside: applying salicylic acid to peel the wart away layer by layer, freezing the wart using cryotherapy, or removing the wart with surgery. One of…
As we prepare to close out Diabetes Awareness Month, the focus at Clifton Foot & Ankle Center is on the theme for this year’s awareness campaign: Small Steps, Big Difference. The campaign targets people with prediabetes. Who has prediabetes?It turns out there are 88 million with prediabetes in this country alone. Many have no symptoms at all, so they’re not…
One of our recent blogs explored what it might mean if your feet are cold all the time. But what if you have the opposite problem – feet that are always hot and sweaty? Primary hyperhidrosis – the medical term for too much sweat – is genetic. It’s more common in men than women, and it’s also more common in…
When it comes to the health of our feet, the daily details we remember are cleanliness, wearing shoes and exercising. Still, there’s so much misinformation out there about these amazing body parts! Common myths about basic foot care abound, so let’s put some of them to rest: Myth #1: Foot pain is inevitable as we…
We have many patients with diabetes at Clifton Foot & Ankle Center. If we took a poll, they might agree that they hear this piece of advice from us above all others: Never give up keeping your blood sugar under control. It’s also an important message of the American Diabetes Association, which sponsors Diabetes Awareness Month every November….
Corns on your feet have several names. In medical circles, we call them “hyperkeratoses.” In Great Britain, they’re referred to as “rooster’s eye,” although we haven’t had an opportunity to consult any citizens there to find out exactly why! By any name, a corn refers to a patch of thickened skin on your foot. Corns are commonly found…
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