Troy A. Miles, MD

Best Facial Yoga Workouts for Mouth, Jaw, Eyes, Forehead, & Neck

Feel like your skin is looking a bit saggy or wrinkled, but don’t want to look into surgical options? Doing facial exercises, or facial yoga, helps strengthen the muscles in your face, which can leave your skin looking...

How to

Treat Neuropathy in Feet

Neuropathy is a disease affecting the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Your PNS controls body movements, sensations, and automatic functions like blood pressure and sweating. If your nerves are damaged, a variety of symp...

Symptoms of Neuropathy in Feet: What to Look For, Causes & Treatment Options

Everything you need to know about peripheral neuropathy Peripheral neuropathy is a complex condition with a variety of causes and symptoms, so how can you tell if that tingling in your toe is just a passing feeling or a...

How to

Exercise Your Shin Muscles

Your shin muscles in the front of your lower legs are important muscles to use when running and walking. They are simple muscles to exercise, either on your own or with a resistance band. Because they are simple, they ar...

How to

Push a Hernia Back in

While there are several types of hernias, all hernias are an "out-pouching" of an organ, part of an organ or fatty tissue. This material squeezes through weak areas or gaps in the surrounding tissues of your abdomen. Bec...

How to

Cure an Infected Toe

An infection in the toe can range from the relatively mild infection of an ingrown toenail or toenail fungus, to more serious infections of the skin (abscesses or cellulitis). A toe infection could even become very serio...

How to Treat Toe & Foot Numbness

Combat numbness with home remedies & medical treatmentsIs the floor just cold, or is that pinky toe numb for another reason? Numbness in your feet and toes can be caused by many different conditions, and the best ways t...

How to

Tape an Ankle Like an Athletic Trainer

Ankle injuries can take a while to heal, especially when they don’t receive the proper treatment. Anyone is capable of sustaining such an injury, but athletes are more prone to experience one. To help an athlete recove...

How to

Straighten Toes

Toes can become crooked when they are subjected to chronic pressure and stress, which is a common outcome of wearing narrow-toed, high-heel shoes. Ligaments and tendons surrounding the joints get warped, causing toes to ...

How to

Treat a Pulled Oblique Muscle

The oblique muscles are located on the sides of your abdomen, between your hip and your rib cage. There are two sets of oblique muscles - external and internal obliques - and together they are responsible for helping you...

How to

Cure Bow Legs

Bow legs are a normal occurrence in children under 3 years old that usually fixes itself, but how can you correct persistent bow legs in older children and adults? Leg braces and vitamin D are common cures for children, ...

How to

Treat a Torn Calf Muscle

The two muscles that work in conjunction to form the lower leg (or calf) are the deeper soleus muscle and the more superficial (closer to the skin) gastrocnemius muscle. These muscles connect the heel to the back of the ...

Shin Splints Self-Treatment & Home Remedies

Quick ways to reduce shin splint pain and improve recovery timeThe term “shin splints” is the common name for a type of shin pain caused by high-impact physical activities, such as running or hiking. If you’re expe...

How to

Care for Arthritic Hands

Arthritis, in general, is the inflammation of joints. If you have arthritis in your hands, then you likely have inflammation in one or more of the joints in your hand or wrist. Arthritis in the hands can be caused both...

How to

Fix Flat Feet

Experts say flat feet are usually painless and don't require treatment. However, flat feet can cause foot or leg pain, as well as knee and ankle problems in some people. Although flat feet are normal in infants and toddl...

How to

Build Up Atrophied Muscles

Muscle atrophy is a condition in which the tissues in the muscles start to weaken and waste away. This can occur as a result of lack of muscle use, malnutrition, disease, or injury. In many cases of muscle atrophy, you c...

How to

Get Rid of Thigh Pain

There are three groups of muscles in the thigh that can cause pain: the hamstring muscles at the back of the thigh, the quadriceps muscles at the front of the thigh, and the adductor muscles of the inner thigh. The hamst...

How to

Recover from a Strained or Pulled Muscle

Muscle strains, also called pulls, occur when the small fibers within a muscle are stretched beyond their limits, which results in a partial or complete tear (rupture). All muscle pulls are categorized as either Grade I ...

How to

Get Rid of Calluses on Feet

The average person walks thousands and thousands of steps in their life time. All this walking — along with what we wear on our feet — can beat up our feet quite a bit. One unfortunate way our feet can get beat up ...

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Train Your 'V Shaped' Walking Style to a Straight Style

Although relatively uncommon, some people ranging in age from children to adults may walk in a “V-shape,” which is also known as eversion or out-toeing. The causes can vary from underlying medical issues to structur...