Mayo Clinic Health Manager
Get free personalized health guidance for you and your family.
Get Started
About our e-newsletters
- Free e-newsletters
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- We do not share your e-mail address
Housecall, our weekly general-interest e-newsletter, keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics with timely, reliable, practical information, recipes, blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts and more. Our biweekly topic-specific e-newsletters also include blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts, and other useful information that will help you manage your health.
Housecall Archives
Mayo Clinic Housecall
Stay up to date on the latest health information.
What you get
- Free weekly e-newsletter
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- Recipes, tools and other helpful information
- We do not share your e-mail address
Lifestyle and home remedies
By Mayo Clinic staffDepending on the diagnosis and on the severity of your foot or lower leg symptoms, your doctor may advise you to limit your weight-bearing activities while wearing walking boots or orthotics. This gives time for the swelling and pain in your feet to subside and allows your feet to regain their full range of motion.
Once your symptoms have subsided, you may find that you can return to normal activities, including exercise. However, non-weight-bearing exercise, such as cycling and swimming, may still be best, especially when you first get back to activity. In addition, your doctor may advise continued use of orthotics while walking.
