Welcome to Rocky Mountain Foot and Ankle’s blog! We hope that this serves to help our patients and potential patients make decisions about their health. I will be publishing at least one update per month on topics related to the foot and ankle and hope to get your feedback! Think of this as a way to interact with your doctor without having to see your doctor! Think of this as a forum to discuss topics of health and fitness or specific problems with the feet! I will do my best to entertain and enlighten, so keep those questions coming.
By: Dr. P. Roman Burk Are you a runner who likes to improve their running endurance by running on a treadmill at the gym? Or, maybe, like me, you use the treadmill to get your cardio in as a warm up prior to lifting weights. Although it’s still warm enough to run outside in the
By: Dr. P. Roman Burk Previously, we discussed preventing running injuries with the right running shoes, but many people have asked a more pointed question lately online. What about flat-footed runners? For starters, flat feet are caused when the medial longitudinal arch of a person’s foot flattens or collapses. When this happens, the person’s feet
By: Dr. Jed H. Erickson Like me, you probably have children getting ready to go back to school. You’ve taken your back-to-school shopping list, and purchased pencils, notepads, folders, etc. But, have you given much thought to your children’s shoes. Children’s feet grow a lot as they get older and shoe and sock sizes should
By: Dr. P. Roman Burk We see many Jones fractures in our practice and you may be wondering what type of injury this is. To answer the question, a Jones fracture is a foot injury involving one of the metatarsals, those long bones in the foot that connect to the toe bones. In this case,
By: Dr. P. Roman Burk Sandals have been worn by men for a very long time – the Egyptians wore them, the Greeks wore them, the Romans wore them. As for their place in the American man’s wardrobe, American GIs in WWII brought the style home from the front lines of the Pacific. Traditional Japanese
By: Dr. Jed H. Erickson Unless you live in a warm, sunny place like the Caribbean and enjoy a leisurely beach-based lifestyle, odds are that you wear socks most of the time. Socks keep your feet warm and dry and protect them from chafing by your shoes. If you’re a man, you most likely have
By: Dr. Jed H. Erickson It’s summer, and for many of us that means a vacation near water, whether you are headed up to Redfish Lake or over to the Oregon Coast. We are excited at the prospect of swimming, boating, fishing or water skiing – there really are innumerable ways to have fun in
By: Dr. P. Roman Burk A couple of my aunts really love the color purple and when they go to a wedding, they always wear purple hats. However, while purple is wonderful for hats, toes should definitely not be purple. So, if one of your toes has suddenly turned this deep, colorful shade, you need