If you are overweight and suffer from pain in your feet that radiates from your heel, you are not alone. Almost one quarter of overweight people suffer from plantar fasciitis, a debilitating condition that causes heel pain and can limit a person’s ability to walk or exercise. It is estimated that one out of every ten people will suffer from heel pain at some point in his or her life.

Being overweight and suffering from heel pain can create a vicious cycle. We all know that exercise is a key component to losing weight. The problem is that heel pain often strikes when you put more stress on your feet by increasing your physical activity. If heel pain then forces you to limit exercise, it becomes challenging to lose weight and can actually cause an increase in weight. Increasing weight and a sedentary lifestyle can cause more heel pain and other common health problems, such as depression and heart disease.

The good news is that when properly treated, most heel pain improves in 6 to 8 weeks. The bad news is that most people do not have information to properly treat it. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons estimates that 2 million people seek treatment for plantar fasciitis every year in United States, and several million more go untreated. Those who don’t seek treatment often hope that plantar fasciitis will just go away on its own – which it usually doesn’t.

Advanced Laser Solutions Claims You Can Quit Smoking In One Day

Cleveland Ohio. Most smokers will tell you they could quit smoking, overcoming habits associated with cigarettes, if physical cravings were removed. The constant nagging of physical addiction overrides best of intentions among many smokers who truly want to quit.

Nicotine replacement therapies, antidepressants, hypnotherapy and cold turkey methods have helped some smokers kick habit. The fail rate is higher than success rate of these therapies, leaving many a smoker with heavy feeling of defeat.

Advanced Laser Solutions, located in Garfield Heights Ohio, offers a 20-minute treatment that claims to remove physical cravings of cigarette. To a smoker, this claim may sound too good to be true.

Low-level Laser therapy has been safely used with great success in Canada and in Europe for over thirty years. In May of 2003, an Institutional Review Board (IRB) authorized investigational clinical trials using low-level laser therapy in compliance with FDA regulations in United States. The FDA has already ruled low-level laser therapy as a “non-significant risk” and US investigational trials are being funded through patient participation.

“After my mother, a smoker for most of her adult life, received this treatment in Canada and successfully quit smoking, I knew this was a viable treatment that could actually change a person’s life,” says co-owner of Advanced Laser Solutions, Tony Latina. Tony went on to become a Certified Laser Technician (CLT). Peggy Schmidt, LSW, LPCC, CCDC, a Licensed Addictions Counselor joined Tony and together they have opened first Ohio office.

Tony and Peggy are dedicated to helping those that smoke and want to quit, finally succeed. They offer a full program addressing both physical and mental addiction to nicotine.

As part of their overall commitment to effectiveness of treatment and client’s perception of treatment, they contracted with an independent survey company, Quality Care Options, LLC (877-620-6448) QCO