UFAI Blog: All our posts about General Health

Ankle strength and stability play a huge role in weightlifting. Our guide explains why ankles impact your performance and how to strengthen them.

Hundreds of muscles and nerves work together to make you walk. Walking gait problems can indicate problems with muscles, joints, nerves, or even your brain.

Blisters are painful and unpleasant, but they're also preventable. How do I prevent blisters? How do I treat a blister?

When do I need urgent foot care? When you have a foot or ankle injury, it's important to know which doctor to go to. Should you go to urgent care or the ER?

This National Take a Hike Day we'd like to offer our 14 best tips for beginning hikers. If you're interested in hiking, we hope you find these tips helpful!

Struggling with foot pain or ankle instability? Here are 7 easy foot and ankle strengthening exercises you can do at home to treat or prevent pain.

With cooler weather coming up, we keep getting asked "is sleeping with socks on good for me?" Get the details from our renowned podiatrists.

A healthy foot is an attractive foot! Here are 15 tips for better foot health in the summer months.

Researchers say that a new case of dementia is detected every four seconds worldwide. The health benefits of walking help us retain our memory and thinking skills. Here’s a non-exclusive list of brain health benefits derived from aerobic exercises.

SoftWave shockwave therapy offers revolutionary non-invasive treatments for foot and ankle ailments. Learn more about its uses at UFAI.

The more we age, the more we fall. The CDC reports that each and every year, 36 million Americans aged 65 or older suffer significant falls. UFAI evaluates the risks of falls in older adults and provides podiatric insight into preventing them.

What causes stinky feet? Find out about the opportunistic bacteria that can invade your feet and start killing cells -- and what you can do about it!

Jimmy Buffett, the shepherd of summer vacationers, once famously blew out his flip flop, stepped on a pop top, and cut his heel. Fortunately, a frosty margarita was all it took to nurse the eternal beach bum back to full health, but those of us at University Foot and Ankle Institute would hate for a foot injury to interrupt your read more »