Your nails can say a lot about your health: Discoloration, brittleness, and breakage are annoying to deal with on your fingers, but they’re also signs you should watch out for on your toes. One ...

Black toenails are usually the result of toenail injury. However, there are other things that can cause a black toenail, including fungal or bacterial infections. Most cases of black toenails aren’t ...

Let’s start with this, Runner’s Toe, aka black toenails from running, is not required to be in the club and is not a 100% certainty for all runners. We often treat our injuries like war stories. Each ...

Q: After running for five years, I’m finally a “real” runner; I just got my first black toenail after a 10-mile race. What is the best way to treat it?” Jen K., New Market A: Congratulations on ...

Running is difficult enough when you consider the very real threat of prolonged injuries that keep you off the roads for weeks or months at a time. But what do you do about those more frequent — and ...

A badge of honour for ultra-runners, black toenails are caused by blood pooling beneath the nail. The most likely cause? Very long runs in ill-fitting shoes. "There should be 1cm between the end of ...

A few weeks before her first marathon, Kristel Crame bought a trendy purple polish to cover her toenails, one of which she'd bruised on a long training run. But as she started her at-home pedicure, "I ...

Before starting to learn more about the remedies, it is important to fully explain what toenail fungus is to understand the kind of problem you are dealing with. According to the American Academy of ...

Lately, I’ve received a number of questions regarding remedies for common health problems. Among them, readers have asked me how they can treat gout, cystic acne and toenail fungus. Here are the ...

Seven years ago, when I first entered the world of marathons, I joined a group of runners who, on our very first long run, let me know the chaos that training for 26.2 miles would bring. Being the ...

The black toenail polish Ronaldo uses is not for decoration but serves a medical purpose, helping to harden his toenails and prevent fungus and bacteria. See more on ...