Blog posts tagged with 'shoe fitting'

The shape of the toe box – add that to length and width next time you go shoe shopping.

I saw a young man who came into the clinic this week with a sore ingrown toenail. His family doctor had placed him on antibiotics and referred him to us for correction of the nail.  But there was a problem.  T...

One of the oldest shoe fitting tricks is the use of a tongue pad. Tongue pads are used to snug the shoe. Tongue pads are placed under the 'throat' of the shoe. The throat is the area of a non-laced shoe that would meet the top of the arch. In laced shoes, there's often an adjustable tongue that protects the top of the foot from the laces of the shoe.