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ConsultingFootPain features a library of foot health articles covering conditions like heel pain, toe swelling, Morton’s neuroma, and nail surgery. These are based on my clinical career and personal experience—offering both professional insight and patient support.

This blog is an extension of my mission: to inform and empower readers on foot pain, injuries, and treatment options.

From fasciitis and heel pain to toe fractures, swelling, pain after injections, and post-surgery recovery, the articles are short, relatable, and evidence-informed.

Explore real stories, clinical reflections, and trusted foot health tips. Whether you're looking to understand bunions, nail surgery, or what that lump on your foot could be—it’s all here.

Skin & Nails

Several conditions can affect the skin and nails of the feet, including thickening, infection, blisters, cracks, swelling, and trauma. Fungal infections and ingrowing nails are common issues. Nails and skin act as indicators of health and are treated within the field of dermatology.

Footcare for Sportspeople

Having a go at footcare sounds like a good idea, so I've come up with some tips to help with your sports events, whether you play tennis or run, are professional or amateur, your focus should be on preventing skin and nail problems interfering with your performance and enjoyment.. After all, who doesn’t want to optimise their performance? Here’s a bit about the toe – a common area on the foot to receive injury.

Skin & Nails

David Tollafield

Aug 76 min read

Tennis player loses her toenails

What is foot pistoning? This is where the shoe is slightly too large, causing the foot to move backwards and forwards within the toe box, where damage can arise from impact forces.

Skin & Nails

David Tollafield

Aug 64 min read

Thick Toenails

Nail damage leads to permanent changes that are not always evident.

Skin & Nails

David Tollafield

Aug 45 min read

Death and an Ingrown Toenail

Does this title sound ridiculous? Well, it did to the 21-year-old student, David, but the media suggests otherwise.

Skin & Nails

David Tollafield

Aug 44 min read

Ingrown Toenail

Ingrown toenail or IGTN is painful and disabling. In this article, David provides insight into the cause, self-help and treatment.

Skin & Nails

David Tollafield

Aug 46 min read

Prevention of Foot Blisters

The skin, footwear and terrain play major parts in causing blisters in the normal foot without complicated skin problems. Take care of this, and you are halfway there.

Skin & Nails

David Tollafield

Jul 215 min read

Five conditions in feet caused by cancer treatment

We know that certain chemotherapies can affect the feet by preventing us from carrying out normal routines, especially after having surgery for cancer. Some of these side effects exhibited can be painful. Clinicians supporting patients with cancer aim to minimise such complications from therapy.

Clinical Practice Information

David Tollafield

May 143 min read

Sun and Skin Warnings

David explains a solar damage on the face, his consultation and treatment during the Covid experience as part of a case history for the readership at at davidtollafieldauthor.com

General Foot Health

David Tollafield

May 34 min read

The Silicone Injection Story for Corns

The work of Dr Sol Balkin[1] has passed into podiatric history for two reasons. Firstly, because the method he applied worked for him, but secondly, when tested under strict scientific conditions the method failed. It is a tale that is hidden from the public and to some extent few will know of the case.

Clinical Practice Information

David Tollafield

May 14 min read