WTF-What the Foot

  Welcome to What the Foot, the podcast where we explore cutting-edge and natural approaches to health and well-being of your feet. I’m your host, Dr Dennis Timko, and today we’re continuing our podcast series about Red Light Therapy.   Last podcast we went over what Red light therapy was and how it works and what type of problems it can help with.   Today I will go over my protocol on how I...

  Red light therapy is emerging as a potent treatment that supports the body’s healing properties including foot and ankle problems and painful neuropathy and it may be a valuable complement to doctor-prescribed treatments for neuropathy, pain and numbness in the feet. Light has long been used for healing, but in recent years scientists have isolated the benefits of specific wavelengths of li...

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We have been taught by many years of practice and schooling that traditionally our first treatment of choice and the standard of care for chronic and acute pain is the use of anti-inflammatory medication. This can include oral medicine or injectable types. But……it’s not a cure…..just a bandaid for the pain and they’re cheap bandaids. Listen to my podcast about how...

Welcome back to What the Foot podcast and Happy Halloween. With winter on the way and the end of open toes shoes and sandals, we are going to discuss ingrown toenails, why we get them, how to fix them, and how to prevent them. I will also explain little about me and about why the delay in my podcast recording. Fracturing my ankle has helped me understand what my patients go through on the oth...

Welcome to the 2nd episode of WTF podcast.  Want to learn something good and something bad about Obamacare?  What does healthcare in Bosnia have in common with Obamacare?  We will tell you here. Listen to our first review on the Powerstep over-the-counter arch support with our own “Buy it, Try it, or Fry it” options. Lis Franc sport injuries?  What are they and why Allen Craig will have a tough ti...

Read and even listen to our Foot podcast and how easy it is to test for neuropathy in the foot. What’s the difference between a large and small sensory nerve in the foot that can cause numbness problems?  How do you test for sensory neuropathy?  This article and radio show are about testing for numbness in the foot.  We also have more information on vitamin treatments for neuropathy in our website...

Happy 4th of July!  Listen to this episode if you want to learn the difference between difference between orthotics and over the counter arch supports? Arch Supports & Orthotics: Do we really need them? If you are listening to this you probably had or are currently dealing with foot pain. Learn my recommendations for my favorite OTC foot orthotics. Why are custom orthotics expensive?  What foo...

Learn how to get your infant to walk sooner you must listen to this podcast. Learn from a podiatrist point of view on why infant walkers can deceive the average parent and are not a healthy choice for infant foot development and to get your little one walking sooner. As a foot doctor/podiatrist and now father of a 11 month old boy, I have been more careful to acknowledge pediatric foot problems. ...

Should HIPPA and patient privacy include professional athletes health history? Since I’m doing a podcast on foot and ankle injuries of professional athletes, mainly baseball, I thought I would discuss my feelings on privacy of health information in athletes. I hear, see and read about it almost everyday.  Player “XYZ” is getting an MRI next week for a ankle sprain?  Or “player XYZ” is having a vis...