Monday, February 3, 2025
In his 2009 book Why You Really Hurt: It All Starts In The Foot, Dr. Burton Schuler, the leading international expert about the painful medicaI known as the "Morton's Toe" explain why he love using heat for the treatment of chronically sore feet and heel problems. Some doctors may disagree with him , and say ice is better, but after being a podiatrist for over 50 years and treating about 45,000 patients during that time, Schuler absolutely believe that heat is the way to go for helping sore, painful, aching feet . Ice is okay right after an injury, like when you twist your ankle. But besides that, but Dr. Morton's Toe (Schuler) heat is the best way to go, for you to mend your own damaged feet. Why Heat? The most oblivious reason is the wonderful soothing effect heat has. It will just make you feel better. This is for the simple reason that heat will increase the blood flowing into the foot . When more blood is brought into the foot, it will start to remove all of the damaged tissues that has buildup over a period of years. This buildup was due to the constant abuses that your feet were exposed to. Once you start to flush, or push out this stuff, the redness, swelling, soreness, throbbing and aching in your feet and other parts of your body will start to go away. How It Works: The best way Dr. Schuler explain this is to tell you about the puddle verse the water hose. If you have a large puddle of water that was caused by a heavy rain in front of your house, you might want to get rid of it. So how do you do it? Well, you can take a bucket and with several trips get rid of it that way. Or you can take a broom and sweep it away. Or, you can take your hose and with using the sprayer push more water into puddle making it wash away. That is exactly what you are doing with soaks, heating pads, and paraffin bath (see below). You are washing away, and pushing out, the abnormal buildup of inflammation due to injuries, by adding more circulation to the area. Podiatrists have under stood this concept for years, and often will give a nerve block in the foot in order to increase the circulation. When certain nerves in the foot are numbed or blocked , it has the effect of causing the blood vessels to open up wider, and bring more down blood into the foot. This increase blood flow decreases pain and inflammation by washing away all of the rubbish that has buildup over time, in your foot. Basically this is the same concept as the hose and the puddle. And, that is what you will be doing when you use heat to bring more blood into your feet. Ice is doing the exact opposite by closing down the blood vessels and not letting blood in. People like ice because it is freezing and numbing the area which I feel is the worst thing you can do. Again the aim of the treatment is to bring more blood into the area to wash away the inflammation that is build up. Dr. Schuler says he has used this to get thousands of patients better
Dr. Burton S. Schuler, Podiatrist, Foot Doctor, of Panama City, Fl (aka Dr. Morton's Toe) is this country leading expert on the painful medical problem know as the Morton's Toe or the Long Second Toe. He is the author of the book Why You Realy Hurt: It All Starts In The Foot, which is the only book ever written about the Morton"s Toe. It was published in 2009 and now is in it's 4th printing. The book is the story of how the Morton's Toe can cause pain not only of your foot but thru out your whole body. Dr. Schuler is a 1975 graduate of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. He has also written the 1982 The Agony Of De-Feet, A Podiatrist's Guide To Foot Care, His articles about the foot, have appeared in the leading podiatric journals and publications. He has been interviewed by such varied publications as the New York Times, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and First for Women. During his almost 50 year career he has appeared on hundreds of radio stations to give his expert opinion regarding the Morton's Toe and other foot problems.
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