According to a study conducted by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, standing for long periods of time while at work can have negative impacts on your lower extremities. The study included 14 men and 12 women ages 18-30 and 50-65 years old. All participants performed low intensity tasks, such as using a computer, while […]

Katie Hester was swimming off the shores in the Bahamas when she was attacked by a six-foot-long shark that tore her Achilles tendon. The 23-year-old felt something tugging on her leg when the shark began to thrash her around in the ocean. After successfully getting away from the shark and back onto her boyfriend’s boat, […]

Babies have many bones in their feet that need to close and grow to become a proper joint later in life. Many of these bones make up the arch that usually starts out as flexible flat feet. For 80-90% of children, those flat feet will eventually turn into arches, but for the rest pediatric flat […]

Jarryd Hayne, returner/running back of the San Francisco 49ers, recently shared that he would be undergoing surgery after the team’s mandatory minicamp. On the morning following his surgery Hayne posted a picture of his bandaged foot onto Instagram, sharing his desire to once again be active. Hayne reportedly had surgery for a cyst on the […]