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Narrow Shoes Thicken Nails. (Infectious Diseases).
Onychogryphosis due to biomechanical trauma from narrow-toed shoes with secondary onychomycosis is a frequently missed diagnosis, Dr. C. Ralph Daniel III said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Half of the nail disorders that show up in the physician's office are fungal in nature, he said, but many clinicians often fail to see the big picture, Dr. Daniel said.
He cited the case of a 58-year-old woman in otherwise good health who presented with a painful left great toe and a progressively thickening nail, which had not responded to oral or topical antifungals.
Fungal cultures revealed Trichophyton rubrum, but the tip-off for the primary diagnosis was narrow-toed shoes and bunions. Hence the chicken and the egg diagnosis. "The chicken is the secondary fungal infection, while the egg is the biomechanical problem," said Dr. Daniel, a dermatologist ...
- Round-toed shoes: What's the point.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Teitell, Beth September 2, 2004 700+ words
...that we have closets full of pointy-toed shoes? That some of us had our toes surgically...live vicariously through them. Round-toed shoes would definitely make me look fat - not...by. She took my hand. "In round-toed shoes," she began, "you're Barbara Stanwyck...
- NIDA officials discourage wearing open-toed shoes in serology labs. (National...
- Newspaper article from: AIDS Alert March 1, 1988 700+ words
...NIDA officials discourage wearing open-toed shoes in serology labs BALTIMORE -- Two National...recommend that personnel not wear open-toed shoes in serology laboratories. In a letter...technicians at their facility wear open-toed shoes. Dax and Contoreggi claim that a glass...
- Are fetishes relative? For example, if a guy with a foot fetish gets on a train...
- Magazine article from: Esquire Woods, Stacey Grenrock July 1, 2006 700+ words
...have a question for you: If the open-toed-shoes train leaves Atlanta at 6:00 P.M...a train full of women wearing open-toed shoes would be a turn-on only for a foot fetishist with a fetish for women with open-toed shoes. "Open-toed shoes wouldn't do a...
- Wide-open spaces: getting a toehold.(open-toed shoes)(Column)
- Magazine article from: Footwear News Infantino, Vivian November 25, 1996 700+ words
There was a time it was considered bad taste for women to show their toes. Open-toed shoes were a fashion and social no-no. In the recent past, covered toes were the fashion rule. The cover-up had little to do with...
- Moszkito[R] Expands its Archy™ Footwear Collection to Include Closed-Toed...
- Newspaper article from: Biotech Week September 9, 2009 700+ words
...available, all with at least 16 mm of arch support, in fun, colorful leathers and designs. The new addition of closed-toed shoes will allow die-hard Moszkito lovers to enjoy the famous Moszkito arch support year round. In women's full sizes 5-11...
- Moszkito(R) Expands its Archy(TM) Footwear Collection to Include Closed-Toed...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 25, 2009 700+ words
...available, all with at least 16 mm of arch support, in fun, colorful leathers and designs. The new addition of closed-toed shoes will allow die-hard Moszkito lovers to enjoy the famous Moszkito arch support year round. In women's full sizes 5-11...
- A square deal.(square-toed shoes in style at Italian Footwear Manufacturers...
- Magazine article from: Footwear News Infantino, Vivian April 1, 1996 700+ words
BOLOGNA, Italy -- If it walk like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's a duck. Right? Wrong. It's a duck-billed square-toe shoe, the dominant fashion shape at the recent MICAM show here. Unlike the New York and Vegas shows, where options continued to be the name of the game, there were no ifs, ands
- Narrow Shoes Behind Refractory Nail Thickening.
- Magazine article from: Skin & Allergy News MANN, ARNOLD July 1, 2001 700+ words
...to biomechanical trauma from narrow-toed shoes with secondary onychomycosis is a frequently...for the primary diagnosis was narrow-toed shoes and bunions. Hence the chicken and the...patients about the perils of narrow-toed shoes. "I put the narrow-toed shoe on top...
