Show 1423: How to Fix Your Foot Pain
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dr. Jane Andersen joins Joe and Terry in the studio to answer listeners’ questions about foot problems. Do you have bunions or plantar fasciitis? Dr. Andersen has tips on how to fix your foot pain. We invite you to call and tell us about it. You can call 888-472-3366 between 7 and 8 am EDT. Or email us: radio@PeoplesPharmacy.com.
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How Can You Fix Your Foot Pain?
If your feet don’t feel good, you won’t either. Just imagine stubbing your toe. Ouch, that hurt! But stubbed toes generally recover fairly quickly. Some other common foot problems are likely to cause more long-lasting pain. Some of these may result from participation in sports, such as sprained ankles or stress fractures. What is the best way to handle these injuries so they won’t cause persistent problems?
Preventing Foot Pain:
Are your feet flat? Find out what exercises may help and which shoes you should choose to fix your foot pain from flat feet.
Heel pain is another common problem. Inflammation of the Achilles tendon is one possible cause. Perhaps more often, plantar fasciitis triggers heel pain. That is an inflammation of the tissue connecting the heel and the ball of the foot, and special stretches can often help.
If you have wondered about heel spurs or neuromas, tell us what you would like to know. Restoring feet to good health can cover a lot of different areas.
Toes and Toenails:
How about toes? Find out what to do about hammertoes, mallet toes or claw toes, as well as bunions. Are you worried about gout? It may affect the toes first, before causing pain in other parts of the body.
With warmer weather on the way, you may be interested in learning how to prevent athletes foot or eliminate toenail fungus. Do you have corns or calluses on your feet? What is the difference between them, and do the treatments differ?
The questions listeners ask drive the topics we discuss in this show. You can email questions ahead of time to: radio@peoplespharmacy.com.
This Week’s Guest:
Dr. Jane Andersen, Board Certified, American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery, is in practice at Chapel Hill Foot and Ankle, part of FASMA, Foot and Ankle specialists of the Mid Atlantic, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Andersen specializes in Foot and ankle care for Children, Adults, Athletes and Geriatric Patients including surgery and conservative care. She is a Trustee of the American Podiatric Medical Association. January 18, 2025, Jane Andersen, DPM, was awarded the Edwin B. Martin, Jr., Award for Podiatrist of the Year.
Dr. Jane Andersen can help you manage your foot problems.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Joe Graydon. And I'm Terry Graydon. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy. |
| 0:06.0 | You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at |
| 0:11.5 | people's pharmacy.com. Most of us ignore our feet until they start to hurt. A lot of things can go wrong from heel spurs to planter fasciitis. |
| 0:24.6 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:34.2 | Foot problems are surprisingly common. |
| 0:36.9 | Do you have bunions or hamletoes that make it hard to find shoes that fit well? |
| 0:42.7 | A sprained ankle or Achilles tendonitis can really slow you down or even keep you off the pickleball court or hiking trail. |
| 0:52.5 | How can you promote healing? Our guest, Dr. Jane Anderson, |
| 0:57.2 | will answer your questions about what to do for foot and ankle problems. Coming up on the |
| 1:03.1 | People's Pharmacy, learn how to fix your foot pain. |
| 1:17.7 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, |
| 1:22.4 | a different variety of bird flu has just been detected in Mississippi. |
| 1:31.5 | This strain, labeled H7N9, was first detected in China in 2013. It has not been seen in this country since 2017, but now it's appeared on a commercial poultry farm. The previous outbreak of this |
| 1:38.6 | strain killed 39% of the humans infected with it. A different strain of avian influenza, H5N1, has been spreading |
| 1:47.7 | not only to domestic poultry, but also to cattle, cats, and wildlife. Although one person |
| 1:55.5 | has died from complications of H5N1 infection, that type of bird flu does not appear to be quite as deadly to humans. |
| 2:04.4 | It has raised egg prices, which are likely to rise further if more flocks are affected and need to be |
| 2:10.4 | destroyed. A month ago, the FDA was hit with large reductions in force. Even though about half of the agency's budget now |
| 2:19.2 | comes from user fees paid by the pharmaceutical industry, probationary employees were dismissed. |
| 2:26.0 | Food safety staff and workers in medical device oversight were especially hard hit. |
| 2:31.9 | Thousands of FDA employees returned to work this week. Many of the workers |
| 2:36.4 | who had been fired were reinstated. They found chaos because parking lots were filled over capacity |
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