Beautiful heels on X-ray

X-rays are a very useful tool in medicine and podiatry.  The first X-Ray was taken on December 22, 1895.  Podiatrists use X-rays to find pathologies, confirm findings and plan surgeries.  X-rays of the foot and ankle help determine whether a bone has been fractured or injured or damaged by conditions such as infection, arthritis, or other disease. 

Rolando M Melendez, DPM in Jamaica, NY and Corona, NY offers in-office X-ray diagnosis, this way the we can confirm diagnoses of bone and joint the problems the same day.  This allows for a more proactive and specific treatment to be initiated.

Rolando Melendez, DPM in Jackson Heights, NY, Jamaica NY and Corona NY can help you with your toe pain or any joint pain in your feet. Because we want you to keep doing all the fun things you like to do without having pain in your feet!

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Celebrities can be diabetic too! (Halle Berry)

 

Diabetes is on the rise: an estimated 1.3 million adult New Yorkers (almost one in eight) now have diabetes.  Halle Berry, Drew Carey and Larry King are among the celebrities who live with diabetes.  This disease has not stopped their lives. However, Diabetes can cause serious complications like nerve damage, blindness and foot amputations. 

To prevent these problems make sure to have tight control of your diabetes, monitor your feet daily and visit a podiatrist regularly for foot exams.

Rolando M Melendez DPM is in Jamaica NY to help you with all your foot and ankle problems.  Because we want you to keep doing all the fun things you like to do, without having pain in your feet!

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