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I am board certified in foot surgery and have been in private practice for 18 years in Enid, OK. We have friendly, knowledgeable staff. We have a JACHO Certified Surgery Center within our office for your convince for those procedures that do not require the inconvenience and expense of the hospital.
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Podiatry
Licenses
United States: North Carolina, Oklahoma
Languages spoken
English
Doctor Q&A
135 Answers
115 Agrees
The number of answers this doctor has agreed with.
A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Edema: Your family doc, vascular, cardiologist, or podiatrist.
Swelling to the feet and ankles is common as we get older. It can be a vascular insufficiency... Read More
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Maybe?: I am not sure what you mean by "feels a prick" but if there is sufficient pain many people with have an abdominal response. This has been limited to s... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Sprained Ankle: It could be a sprained ankle. It can easily take several months to recover even w/ pt from a sprained ankle. Hopefully yours is not that bad. I would ... Read More
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A 55-year-old female asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
This could be needed: Depending on the fixation used, your age, general health and the quality of your bone, you my require 6 weeks or longer with cast/boot and crutches to... Read More
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A 49-year-old female asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Stop walking !!: "very sore and red" it is telling you that it is not healed. It generally takes a 18 year old kid 8 weeks to heal a fracture. There is a lot of pressu... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Lab results: I don't know about a "cra" blood test. There's a standard CRP test, for c reactive protein. CRP is a marker for inflammation.
An elevated CRP means t... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Avoid the pain: If it is hurting like you stated then seek medical attention. This will likely include a radiography to verify that there is not a fracture. In the me... Read More
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A 48-year-old female asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
This may take a year: Nials grow at different rates from person to person and vary with age and trauma as well.
It should be healed and doing better by 6 weeks but will t... Read More
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A 18-year-old male asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Skin Disorder: This can be as simple as tinea but even if it is, it has come back and over the counter products are not likely going to clear it up. Best bet is to s... Read More
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A 54-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Neuropathy: Are you diabetic or had a back injury? These re the most common causes of numbness to the feet but there are others.
Diabetic neuropathy is treated e... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Lymphedema: I do not know of any herbal treatments for lymphedema.
If it is true lymphedema you need to treat this aggressively, do not cross your legs or sit wi... Read More
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A 64-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Edema: Swelling to the feet and ankles is common as we get older. It can be a vascular insufficiency, kidney or blood pressure issue.
If you have been given... Read More
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2.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Avoid pressure to it: This is very common. The little toe is rubbing the side/end of the shoe and becomes sore. There can be a callous or corn and sometimes a pad will help... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Common condition: Plantar fasciitis is a very common condition and its treatment centers around reducing the inflammation to the area. Treatment can take many different... Read More
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A female asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Go Easy: I am glad that you are better. You are young and need to protect your joints as you will need them for a long time.
I recommend that you do rang of ... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Pain in foot: Sounds like you are describing a neuroma. If can also be a abscess, tumor, bursa, capsulitis etc. Your local podiatrist can help you with this.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Yes: I am concerned with things on my or my children's bodies that are not right. A purple toe is not right. This is likely a vascular problem. First check... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Tattoo: What type of surgery?
Tell your surgeon your plans and follow the instructions.
In general i would not recommend a tattoo right before or right af... Read More
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A 77-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Edema: Swelling to the feet and ankles is common as we get older. It can be a vascular insufficiency, kidney or blood pressure issue. If you have been given ... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Pompholyx Eczema: Eczematous dermatitis represents an inflammatory response of the skin to many different external & internal stimulants. The cause of many forms of ecz... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Happens all the time: A ingrown nail is a wound violating your skin that will allow bacteria in. Your feet and especially around the nails are very dirty and try as you may... Read More
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A 45-year-old male asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Fibular fracture: The change from extra to intra articular fracture is likely that the radiologist read your radiography and someone else (surgeon) read them or observe... Read More
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A 58-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Do not ignore : Edema can be pitting or brawny. Press around the ankle firmly - hold and release. If there is a indentation that stays around it is pitting edema. If ... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Minor surgery: You may have received an avulsion of part of the nail and as it grows out you can experience pain again. Your podiatrist may need to remove part of th... Read More
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A 51-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Painful Corns: If this really is a corn, removing pressure from the area with a aperture pad will help but it does not correct the problem. See your local podiatrist... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Ingrown toe nail: Ingrown toe nails do hurt. You have had a reoccurring toe nail that has been treated and yet it comes back. You will need to see a podiatrist and have... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Better: You can have smaller incisions with less dissection (disruption of normal tissue), more accurate repair. The robot can hold and turn and move in ways ... Read More
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A 56-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Ankle / Heel pain: Nerves do not work well without vit b's. I am thinking about vit b 1, 6, 9 and 12. It is difficult to absorb vit from your diet and if you are diabeti... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Stitches: A wound can open after sutures are removed when there is more stress across the incision than the rhaling wound can withstand. Each patient is differe... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Maybe?: Your shoes can be too tight. Have you recently started to wear them about the time it went numb?
It could be neuropathy as well.
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A 29-year-old male asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Onychocryptosis: Onychocryptosis is the medical name for ingrown toe nail.
The nail can be flat or curved and still be ingrown. The margin of the nail impinges int... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
See your podiatrist: You can have a sprain that hurts too bad to walk on and you can have a mild fracture that you can walk on. Protect your future and see your podiatrist... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Drinking and smoking: Yes
drinking can alter the way your drugs are metabolized and smoking can directly slow down the healing process from surgery or any other trauma tha... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Activity: If allowed get up and move. If not allowed to get up, move as allowed. Reduce your salt. Do not hold your bladder. Go urinate as often and as soon as... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
stubbed toe: Does it still hurt or is it deformed or is there blood under the nail ....?
Any of the above then yes see your podiatrist. There is much suffering an... Read More
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A 55-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Zapped feet ? : I am not sure what you mean.
It could be paresthesia or abnormal sensation. This happens very frequently in diabetic patients and your local podiatr... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Thumb surgery: Some times you would need a cast after thumb surgery. Some times a protective dressing would be adequate. Your surgeon would be the one that i would t... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Tight achilles: Below is a good answer and stretching can help. I would like to add that often if there is a real equinus (tight achilles) surgery is required.
Phys... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Congratulations: Clear margins in any cancer surgery means that in the sample of tissue that they are talking about the cancer does not extend to the edge of the samp... Read More
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A 35-year-old male asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
NO: There may be some supplements that can lower your uric acid level but every day that it is too high you are tearing up your joints wheather you feel p... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Messed up toe: I can not tell what is going on from your description but it is not suppose to hurt. See you local podiatrist and get this fixed.
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Tendon healing: It really is a variable thing to talk about healing times for tendons.
If the tendon is cut, crushed or just bruised it will heal differently. It ma... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Yes: Energy to cause a muscle tear would have the ability to cause injury to the surrounding nerves and blood vessels. The muscles in the lower leg are lon... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
Dr. Scott Shieldsanswered
Podiatry 31 years experience
Heel pain: Plantar fasciitis is a misleading term as this type of heel pain is not inflammatory but rather degenerative in nature. A better term for this would b... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Painful legs: Sounds like you are sitting on your legs to the point that they "go to sleep". You can pinch the nerves and blood supply by sitting on your legs. I ... Read More
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A 48-year-old male asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Variable: If your sprain was bad enough to be in a cast and not in a boot i would leave it on for 2-3 weeks. Removal of the cast will allow range of motion but ... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Middle toe: Gout, ingrown toe nail, wound, infection, trauma, fracture, tumor etc. There are too many variables for swollen painful toe but your local podiatrist ... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Cold foot after surg: It is not good. Go back to the orthopedic surgeon that did the knee. He/she was in there. That person knows what was seen and done. They will have the... Read More
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A 63-year-old female asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Twitching: Twitching in the achilles tendon could be RLS of restless leg syndrome.
Medication helps after you get in to the doctor until then you may try easy ... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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Podiatry 31 years experience
Dead skin: There are several reasons that you would have this and you can try an exfoliate from the drug store. I would not recommend that you cut this off yours... Read More
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Jul 7, 2014
Dr. Shields is an expert in his field. He is an asset to Healthtap. Dedicated, caring, knowledgable, and thought provoking are only a few words to describe this outstanding doctor.
Sep 15, 2013
Dr Shields is providing an invaluable service to the public via Healthtap. The information he provides is understandable, clear & accurate. I endorse Dr. Shields.
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Shields is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Thank you just trying to understand it not pointing finger
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! I've undergone surgery to repair ! Fingers crossed !!
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Thanks for your quick reply! It is actually a spike bone spur of the elbow
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
The Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, OH
Graduated 1992MD
Residency
Huron Road Hospital, Cleveland, OH
Awards
Top Doctor, Third Place, Oklahoma City, OK - Winter
2013
Most Influential, Second Place, Oklahoma City, OK - Winter
2013
Thought Leader, Second Place, Oklahoma City, OK - Winter
2013
Affiliations
American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons
American Board of Posiatric Surgery
National Board of Podiatric Examiners
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