Salsa dancing shoes

Salsa dancing gives your muscles, joints, and bones a really good workout. It can help delay osteoporosis and arthritis.

Salsa dancing shoes should be stylish ( of course), lightweight, comfortable, flexible, made of real suede and/or leather, and extra cushioning in the sole.  

The foot should have more freedom of movement while  keeping the heel “locked” in place. 

Leather/suede soles to give enough amount of slip-and-grip while allowing your foot to pivot freely. Avoid rubber-soled shoes.

The dance shoe size should be the same as your street shoe size. If your foot is narrow, you should go down 1/2 a size. If your foot is wider you should go up 1/2 a size .

Gentlemen typically wear suede or leather shoes with a low heel. For Latin Ballroom the heel should be slightly higher. 

For ladies, an open toe heel or strappy sandal is best for the Latin and Salsa dancing. This allows greater movement of the toes, while giving balance and creating a clean leg line.

Traditional Ankle Strap provides the least amount of foot security.  X-Strap (around arch) are great for newer dancers, this strap style anchors your foot to the arch of the shoe, avoiding ankle twisting and providing an ideal amount of support and stability

Heel sizes can be as low as 0.5″ or as high as 4″. The most common heel sizes are between 2″-3″. Higher heels give more shape to the leg.  For beginners, it is recommended to start with a 2.5″ heel height. 

The skinny stiletto heel cause more pressure to the ball of the foot and less balance.  Cuban heels are the lowest and thickest heels and distribute weight over more of the foot.   The flare heel has a skinny center with a slightly flares out out the bottom, providing a bit more stability over the stiletto heel. 

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Rolando Melendez, DPM in Jackson Heights, NY was the experience and knowledge to keep you dancing. Because we want you to keep doing all the fun things you like to do without having pain in your feet!

My female patients love heels

From a kitten heel of 1.5 inches to a 5 inches stiletto heel.  My female patients love heels.

On a APMA survey 42% of women admitted that they weared a shoe they liked even if it gave them discomfort but that night was one on a life time you were looking fabulous, everyone was staring at your heel and your were unstoppable .  

High heels tend to give the aesthetic illusion of longer, more slender legs.

Gucci Heel clasification

• "low heel": < 2.5 inches 
• "mid heels": 2.5 - 3.5 inches 
• "high heel": > 3.6 inches

Some history

Mediæval Europeans wore wooden-soled patten shoes.  Persian horse riders used high heels for better stirrups hold.

Late 1990s lower heels and even flats predominated.  Since the WWII high heels have fallen in and out of popular fashion trend.  Lower heels were preferred during the late 1960s and early 1970s as well, but higher heels returned in the late 1980s and early 1990s

Cons? Ummmmm

• Can POTENTIALLY cause foot and tendon painful, rigid or sinewy: if a daily routine of stretching is not done
• increase the likelihood of sprains and fractures: if there is lack of traction on the sole
• You have hammer toes and bunions? blame the genes and your flip flop (men have bunions and hammertoes and the majority of them don't wear heels)
• Can cause an unsteady gait: if is your first rodeo on those beautiful heel or you had too much EtOH
• Can render the wearer unable to run: only if you wear planning to use your stilettos when chasing criminals
• Can also agitate lower back pain: if you don't stretch those hamstrings
• Can cause damage to soft floors: well is not your problem those people through cheap floor

Those heels

• Accentuates the appearance of calves by changing the angle of the foot with respect to the lower leg
• Gives you a more upright posture
• Make the wearer appear taller
• Make the legs appear longer
• Make the foot appear smaller
• Make the toes appear shorter
• Make the arches of the feet higher and better defined
• Improve the muscle tone
• Improve access for people of short stature to sit upright with feet on floor instead of suspended, reach items on shelves.

Keep using those beautiful heel Dr Rolando Melendez will take care of the rest.

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Smart socks

These smart socks and accompanying anklet come complete with an accelerometer, magnetic snaps, a Bluetooth brain, and pressure sensors to give their wearers metrics of all sorts.

Dubbed a “personal running coach,” the stockings are able to discern activity type as well as monitor heart rate, calories burned, foot landing, running cadence, and more. Not only is the anklet splash-proof, but the socks can be washed without compromising their embedded tech.

 

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Nice shoes, nasty toes

A condition that usually affects the big toe or the fifth toe, which is characterised by loss of function of the interossei and lumbricale muscles resulting in overpowering of the flexor tendon with resultant overriding toe and depressed metatarsal heads, both prone to ulceration, soft tissue tears, digital dislocation or painful calluses.

Surgery is indicated in nearly every instance and will produce a corrected or improved result. The type of surgery--whether reefing, lengthening, or transposition of tendons, implant arthroplasty, or arthrodesis--is tailored to the underlying cause.  Management Dorsal and plantar-shaped incisions around the toe and extensor digitorum longus tenotomy and circumferential MTP joint release.

Rolando Melendez, DPM in Jackson Heights, NY was the experience and knowledge to treat this kind of foot and ankle injuries. Because we want you to keep doing all the fun things you like to do without having pain in your feet!

Painful corn!!!!

Calluses or Corns  are an area of skin that thickens after exposure to repetitive frictional forces in order to protect the skin.  Calluses are painful. 

Factors within the body that may lead to the formation of corns and calluses. 

• Bony prominences or structural deformities, such as hammertoes and bunions
• Faulty foot function such as overpronation or oversupination
• Damaged sweat glands, scars, warts(plantar verruca)

If home remedies fail to eliminate the corns and calluses and they continue to be painful or bothersome, consult your doctor. Anyone with diabetes, loss of sensation or poor circulation should seek medical attention earlier because of a higher risk for infection.

Podiatrists will take X-rays of your feet to look at underlying bony structures that may be the cause of the corns and calluses. 

Periodic shaving or cutting off the hardened area on the skin (debridement) by surgical means or with medicines that break up hardened areas of skin such as 40% urea (keratolytic agents)

Surgically removing areas of protruding bone where corns and calluses form and/or correcting the underlying deformity

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Rolando Melendez, DPM in Jackson Heights, NY was the experience and knowledge to treat this kind of foot and ankle injuries. Because we want you to keep doing all the fun things you like to do without having pain in your feet!

Stephen Curry Ankle

Stephen Curry the Golden State Warrior Star and one of the best point guards of the league  suffered from repeated ankle injuries.  This is a very common condition on basketball players due to the nature of the game.  Last year January Carmelo Anthony missed some game due to the same problem.

The X-rays of Curry's ankle were taken and show negative finding of fracture.  The current problem his problem is commonly call, weak ankles or chronic ankle instability.

People with chronic ankle instability often complain of:

• A repeated turning of the ankle, especially on uneven surfaces or when participating in sports
• Persistent (chronic) discomfort and swelling
• Pain or tenderness
• The ankle feeling wobbly or unstable

When you sprain your ankle, the connective tissues (ligaments) are stretched or torn. The ability to balance is often affected. Each subsequent sprain leads to further weakening (or stretching) of the ligaments, resulting in greater instability and the likelihood of developing additional problems in the ankle.

Treatments include physical therapy and anti-inflammatory.  Bracing to gain support for the ankle and keep the ankle from turning. Bracing also helps prevent additional ankle sprains.

Surgery is based on the degree of instability or lack of response to non-surgical approaches. Surgery usually involves repair or reconstruction of the damaged ligament(s).

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Rolando Melendez, DPM in Jackson Heights, NY was the experience and knowledge to treat this kind of foot and ankle injuries. Because we want you to keep doing all the fun things you like to do without having pain in your feet!

 

Pies adormecidos o calambres?

Dr Rolando Melendez lo puede ayudas con sus problemas de pie y tobillo

Neuropathia diabética

Sciatica 

Nervios pinchados

Discos herniado

Estas patología se manifiestas en los pies

Visite a su podiatra hay muchas alternativas de tratamientos que la o lo beneficiarán a corto y largo plazo

Why socks?

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Why socks?

The foot is among the heaviest producers of sweat in the body, the average foot has 250,000 sweat glands.   The foot can produce over 0.25 US pints (0.12 l) of perspiration per day. Socks help to absorb this sweat and draw it to areas where air can evaporate the perspiration.  Socks will avoiding a variety of foot problems including blisters, athlete's foot and a whole host of others.

In cold environments, socks decrease the risk of frostbite.  Footwraps, pieces of cloth that are worn wrapped around the feet, were worn with boots before socks became widely available.  In the 8th century BC, the Ancient Greeks wore socks from matted animal hair for warmth.  

Socks can be created from a wide variety of materials. Some of these materials are cotton, wool, nylon, acrylic, polyester, olefins, (such as polypropylene), or spandex^.  Most sports will require some sort of sock, usually a tube sock to protect one's legs from being scraped while participating in sport activities.

Swiss researchers found that when we are on the cusp of falling asleep, our body redirects blood flow to our hands and feet. When these extremities are warm, their blood vessels can dilate and allow for greater blood flow, which of course aids in the redistribution of blood and helps you get to sleep. So if you're having trouble nodding off, the solution could be as simple as throwing on a warm pair of socks.

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Anderson Silva's broken leg

Anderson Silva recently underwent surgery to repair a broken leg during a fight that he won. The kick that won him a victory also cost him a badly broken left leg (tibia and fibula bones).  The UFC estimated his recovery time to be as long as six months.

The surgery that he underwent involved the insertion of an intramedullary rod in the tibia. The broken fibula was stabilized and did not required a separate surgery.

Podiatrists all over United States have the experience and knowledge to treat these and many other sports related injuries.

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Shoe Wear

 

SHOES!!!!!

 The purpose of  shoes is to protect and cushion the feet.  Improperly fitted shoes  cause of many foot deformities like bunions, hammer toes, ingrown nails and corns. Foot size changes with age, is very important to have feet measured every time you buy shoes.

A proper podiatric examination has to includes the evaluation of the shoes.  Wear patterns are generally predictable, with the normal wear pattern on the outsole slightly to the inside at the toe and outside at the heel. Abnormalities in the wear pattern indicate problems with alignment and gait. Extra eyelets, where the laces criss-cross to the top of the shoe, aiming for a snug but comfortable fit.

Although proper fitting of shoes always should be fit to the weight-bearing foot at the end of the day, when feet are at their largest. The upper should not wrinkle with flexion, and the foot should not bulge over the welt. The end of the longest toe of the larger foot should be within 3/8² to 1/2² of the end of the toe box. The shoe should provide a relatively snug grip at the counter above the heel.  Above all else, shoes should be comfortable from the moment they are tried on.

Rolando Melendez, DPM 

in Jackson Heights, NY and Corona NY 

We 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!