Pediatric

Back to School Poster

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Free Download for your Waiting Room!

It’s that time of the year! The time all parents wait for – time to start thinking about getting their kids ready for school (and out of the house – YAY). That means new gear, new clothes, and new shoes. This is the perfect time for you to be reminding parents to check their kids’ littleSTEPS® for outgrowth, it’s likely they need a new pair to fit in those new shoes.

We have some great tools to help you remind your parents! We have a flyer that you can download and customize with your office info. You can mail it out or hand it out to every parent who gets littleSTEPS® with a reminder date for them to start checking the size of their child’s littleSTEPS® . We also have this great new WAITING ROOM POSTER that you can download for FREE to display in your waiting room to remind parents that they need to check to see if their child might need littleSTEPS® to help support their feet in the upcoming school year.

FREE DOWNLOAD for your Waiting Room

Get your FREE DOWNLOAD HERE. Download our Outgrowth Reminder Flyer HERE.

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Why Do Children Walk On Their Toes?

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ReBlogged from Dr. Brandon Macy, Clark Podiatry Center

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“Get up on your toes” is a figure of speech urging you to prepare to start something energetically. But when your child appears to be walking on tiptoe most of the time, you sense that something isn’t quite right.

Many parents fear something dire is going on, whether it might be tightness of the Achilles tendons in need of intensive physical therapy, surgery or some neurological issue which sounds even worse. Fortunately, although those situations do sometimes happen, more commonly the answer is far simpler and easier to deal with.

Feet which overpronate (flatten) too much are unstable—there is a lack of ‘leverage’ during walking and running—which is a very inefficient way of getting around. To combat this, raising up on the toes puts the foot in a more stable position. Also, depending on the balance between the forefoot and the rearfoot and the tightness of the Achilles tendon, the heel may lift off the ground prematurely during the gait cycle.

In these cases, muscles, tendons and ligaments have to work extra hard resulting in early fatigue, achiness and pain, affecting their gait and their athletic activities. Over many years, this can lead to foot deformities and arthritic damage to the feet, knees, hips and back.

Most of the time, if your child can stand with both heels on the ground, there is no major tightening of the Achilles tendon. Fortunately, providing proper support and balancing of the feet with a good set of orthotics such as our LittleSteps pediatric orthotics or our adult versions for those over the age of 10 can help deal with the majority of these situations. Using good orthotics on a daily basis can change things rather quickly, decreasing the toe walking and allowing your child to participate fully in their sports activities with less fatigue and pain—not to mention preventing larger problems into adulthood.

For more information visit our website at www.clarkpodiatry.com.

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Pediatrics and Podiatric Medicine

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Featuring Louis J. DeCaro, DPM

In the June 2019 issue of Podiatry Management, our own Louis J. DeCaro, DPM participated in the PM ROUNDTABLE discussing the latest trends in Pediatrics and Podiatric Medicine.

According to Marc Haspel, DPM, “The practice of pediatrics within the specialty of podiatric medicine could be one of the best-kept secrets of the profession. Simply by offering a wide range of services to the youngest in the population, a podiatric practice could benefit in untold ways. Once a podiatric physician gains the confidence of those seeking care for their children, the rest of the family will very often trust its care with that same doctor. Savvy practitioners also recognize that the opposite is true. Often presenting pedal structural complaints of adults can also be identified in their children, giving podiatric physicians an opportunity to treat many more patients. The result could be an exponential growth in the podiatric practice.”

Read the entire article HERE
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