Every day, thousands of people across the country suffer from a common, painful problem that can limit mobility and restrict activities: heel pain. Heel pain can be more complicated than some people realize. It can have many potential causes and tends to worsen, as...
Non-Surgical Treatments
Noah Levine
With nearly two decades of clinical experience in podiatry, Dr. Noah Levine truly is a foot expert. He graduated from the University of Buffalo and went on to earn his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) degree from the prestigious Doctor Scholl's College of Podiatric...
New Patient
There’s a first time for everything. You have your first steps when you’re learning to walk and your first words learning to talk. You have your first football game and your first day of school. You also have your first day at a new job and, yes, the first time you...
Pediatric Flatfoot
Children bounce back quickly. Injuries that are well-cared for often recover faster in them than in adults. Their bodies are also able to handle more wear and tear. Keeping their limbs healthy when they’re young can help to manage foot problems in adulthood. That’s...
Arthritis in Feet and Ankles
It’s that aching and stiffness deep in the joints. Sometimes you feel it in your bad ankle, or the toes you broke a while back. Other times it comes on gradually, slowly making movement more uncomfortable. Arthritis is that frequently lamented pain we associate with...
Aging and Exercise
The Importance of Staying Active There comes a point in everyone’s life where metabolism slows, muscles start to deteriorate, and the senses no longer feel quite as sharp. The effects of aging are inevitable. Every living person is always getting older, but it’s...
Rearfoot Surgery
Step Toward Healing Surgery isn’t something you undergo lightly. No one wants the risk of opening up the body if you don’t really need it. Sometimes, however, the body develops injuries or deformities that don’t respond to conservative treatments. When this occurs in...
Limb Salvage Surgery
Salvage is a word used to describe saving something that risks being totally lost, like shipwrecks or keepsakes after a natural disaster. It’s that final chance to rescue something valuable. Limb salvage surgery serves a similar purpose—a chance to save your feet from...
Hallux Rigidus: Unbending Toes
Imagine trying to bend a rusted hinge. The corroding metal grinds together and sticks instead of gliding smoothly, making it hard to move. Your joints can stick like that, too, decreasing your mobility and causing you pain. In your toes, this can create problems like...
Hallux Limitus
Imagine a machine full of gears and hinges. All those these moving parts need to be able to rotate, bend, and twist smoothly to function well. When they become stiff and rusted, the machine slows down and struggles. Your body has its own moving parts that need to be...