Pediatric Foot Problems
In our office we see children for all different type of foot and ankle problems. The most common foot problems we see in children are listed below. If your child is experiencing foot pain, an ingrown toenail, a wart, heel pain or ankle pain give us a call, we can help!
Below we have listed the 3 most common problems a podiatrist sees in the office. Ingrown toenails, warts and heel pain in children can be easily treated in the office.
Ingrown toenail
Wart
A wart is a lesion or lesion that can appear on the skin from a virus that we are exposed to one way or another. Many times it manifests on the bottom of the foot and can seem like just some thick skin or callus. There can be one solitary wart or some people present with many warts on one or both feet. Learn More Here!
One of the most common conditions to walk into our office is an ingrown nail. People describe the pain as severe at times, and even describe difficulty sleeping due to the lightest touch like that of their sheet, that is from a painful ingrown toenail. There are many causes of an ingrown nail but the two most common are trauma and aggressively trimming back the corner of ones nail. The definition of trauma is not someone hitting your toe with a bat! It is simply being in shoes that are too small and the toe continues to get beat up and the border of the nail starts to grow into the skin. Learn More Here!
Causes of this are many, but kids in sports tend to have repetitive trauma to the toes when playing soccer, running and sports like football and basketball. Getting into the office to fix your child's ingrown toenail is a quick same day fix so they can get back playing pain free. This is the link to learn more about how we treat ingrown toenails. INGROWN TOENAIL TREATMENT LINK
Heel Pain/Calcaneal Apohysitis
The most common cause of heel pain in kids we see in the office is called calcaneal apophisitis/Sever's Disease. This is an inflammation of the heel bone growth plate. Again the sports like soccer and basketball we see many patient that, after a couple of weeks of being in the sport, suffer from intense pain along the heel. It can be confusing as kids may complain of pain that is similar to plantar fasciitis but it is different. Kids may benefit from 2 weeks off from their sport, icing and an anti inflammatory if they can take it. If your child is experiencing heel pain and not getting better it is best to make an appointment with your podiatrist. There they can take an Xray and make sure it is not a stress fracture.