General Foot Care in Coastal Virginia

What You Need To Know

Understanding your foot pain is the first step toward lasting relief.

Complete Foot and Ankle Care

At 1Foot 2Foot, we specialize in providing treatment solutions for all kinds of foot and ankle conditions, including orthopedic nerve problems. Issues like nerve entrapment and neuromas are often the reason for unexplained pain, inflammation, and tenderness in your feet. Often, patients don’t realize that their foot pain is actually caused by nerve damage or small stress fractures to the bones.

Foot and ankle injuries are also one of the most common reasons patients visit our podiatry offices in Suffolk, North Suffolk, Hampton, and Virginia Beach, VA. We specialize in treating broken bones, ankle sprains, and tendon injuries, and our team has extensive experience diagnosing and treating a wide range of foot and ankle conditions.

If you’re experiencing tingling, burning, itching, discomfort, or unexplained pain in your feet, these may be symptoms that require evaluation. Many patients also live with unexplained pain due to undiagnosed stress fractures in the feet, ankles, or shins. Continuing to put pressure on these injuries can lead to further complications down the road.

Please call us to ask questions and find out what could be causing your symptoms. Together, we will create a custom treatment plan designed to relieve your pain and get you back to the activities you enjoy.

Women’s Foot Health and Prevention

Women generally experience more foot problems than men because of pregnancy and improper footwear like high heels. This makes women more likely to have heel pain and foot deformities like bunions, hammertoes, or neuromas. While some foot issues are experienced by both men and women, gender-specific anatomical differences and different approaches to footwear may result in some foot issues that are unique to women.

While high-heeled shoes are frequently pointed to as the worst shoe choice for women, shoes with little to no arch support such as flip flops, sandals, flat boots, and ballet slippers can be just as harmful. Common issues include flatfoot, blisters, bunions, Achilles tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, hammertoes, Morton’s neuroma, excessive swelling often associated with pregnancy, and stress fractures.

Treatment depends on symptoms and diagnosis, and may include anti-inflammatories and ice to reduce swelling, elevating the feet, supportive footwear, orthotic shoe inserts, padding for the toes or arches, foam splints for hammertoes, pumice stone treatments for corns and calluses, or cortisone injections for nerve pain associated with a neuroma.

We’re also focused on preventing foot injuries before they occur. Our certified shoe fitters in Suffolk and North Suffolk at The Shoe Fits provide solutions for custom athletic shoes and preventative ankle braces to help keep your feet healthy for the long term.