Welcome to Anderson Podiatry Center!
We’re excited to meet you and partner with you on your journey back to full health—whether that means returning to work, enjoying life, or getting back to the activities you love.
Your Visit to APC
Our friendly and knowledgeable office team is here to answer any questions you have about foot and ankle conditions, as well as chronic pain affecting your body. To ensure your first visit goes smoothly, please review the information below.
Convenient Locations
Anderson Podiatry Center serves you from four easily accessible locations, including Fort Collins and Broomfield, Colorado. Click here for maps and directions.
New Patient Forms
Please arrive 15 minutes early for your first appointment to complete necessary paperwork.
Additional forms, such as the Medical Records Release Form, should only be completed if directed by our staff. You can download and print these forms ahead of time to bring with you.
Insurance and Payments
We accept most insurance plans—including Medicare, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and many government programs—and will verify your benefits before your appointment.
We also accept checks and major credit cards, with financing options available through CareCredit to help make your care affordable.
We look forward to helping you thrive with expert foot care and personalized support every step of the way.
An update on COVID-19 from Anderson Podiatry Center and Anderson Podiatry Center:
We are closely monitoring events in our local community and continuously updating our policies and protocols as new information arrives.
Please know that during the stay in place order, we are a Designated Essential Business so we are available to consult with most patients in need, and we adhere to best practices for hygiene, infection control and medical professional team health. We are screening patients for symptoms and possible exposure before they enter our office for any urgent or needed ongoing care. We are also offering telemedicine and home visits to reduce social interaction. Read abou tinformation on how the vaccine may affect you in our blog on nerve damage.
For any questions or for foot, ankle or chronic pain problems you are experiencing. We’ll get you taken care of!
A Mom who needed a pair of shoes to apply for a job, A boy whose ‘new’ shoes kept him from getting bullied at school, a homeless man whose shoes helped keep him warm in winter.
These are the stories we hear every year at donation sites from those who are truly in need and for whom a simple pair of shoes improves their self esteem or means the difference between getting a job and not, or protects from the elements while living on the streets.
“One in five people in Larimer County currently lives in poverty,” said Adriann Anderson, COO of Anderson Podiatry Center. “You need more than one pair of shoes and you can go through shoes pretty fast…the need just keeps recurring year after year.”
To help provide shoes to those in need, Anderson Medical Center is sponsoring the 31st Annual Shoes for the Holidays. They are hoping to bring in over 4,000 pairs of shoes and socks! Help them reach that goal by donating lightly used footwear, or by volunteering for the drive.
People can drop off their items at any of the following locations (call for specific times):
Anderson Podiatry Center – 1355 Riverside Ave. Suite C – (970)-484-4620
Runner’s Roost – 3500 S. College Ave. Suite 178 – (970)-224-9144
Immanuel Lutheran Church and School – 4650 Sunview Drive – (970)-667-4506
J. Day’s Appliance – 132 E. 7th St. – (970)-669-1357
Anderson Podiatry Center – 1440 N. Boise Ave. – (303)-469-2940
Anderson Podiatry Center – 1950 Bluegrass Circle, Suite 150 – (307)-634-7062
“Normally, people many times would think about just discarding them [shoes] when there’s still useful life left…” said Dr. Jim Anderson of Anderson Podiatry Center. “It’s helpful to have people continue to [donate]. We thank you all.”
To directly arrange a drop-off, contact Erin Bergstrom, co-facilitator, at (970) 691-0320 or Adriann Anderson at (970) 484 4621.
Those who want to volunteer with the drive can help with sorting the shoes and socks from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 4 at Immanuel Lutheran Church and School in Loveland. Call Erin (above) to sign up.
Thanks for your help with this very important and urgent need!
Judy Schmidt was at the end of her rope. After more than 20 years of debilitating neuropathy, countless doctors’ appointments, and pain that just wouldn’t let up, she was ready to quit. Finally, she found hope for her neuropathic pain.
Life Before Neuropathy
Judy was a woman with a life. She had run a successful business for more than 30 years, and had no plans to stop. She was a wife and a mother, and had a very active social life. She walked five miles every night, and loved to dance with her husband. Life was good as she experienced no symptoms of peripheral neuropathy.
A Devastating Diagnosis
Suddenly, Judy started to feel burning in her feet. “It just kept getting worse and worse. I went to the doctor, and he said I had neuropathy, or tarsal tunnel syndrome,” Judy says.
“The pain was getting so bad that I couldn’t sleep at night, and I had to go on narcotics. I eventually had to end my career five years earlier than I wanted to because the pain was so severe.”
In a Wheelchair
“I ended up in a wheelchair because I just couldn’t walk any more. I couldn’t drive, I couldn’t go to the store. And, I couldn’t feel my feet anymore, yet I was in excruciating pain 24/7,” Judy says.
She tried everything. Acupuncture, chiropractic care, medication. “They recommended that to reduce the pain we put a pain pump in my stomach to release medicine constantly in my system, and I refused,” says Judy.
She was ready to travel across the country for treatment. “I tried to get into several major hospitals, but they said there was nothing they could do for me.”
Ready to Give Up
“I became a recluse,” Judy recalls, “I didn’t go out with friends anymore, because I couldn’t walk and keep up with the social activities.”
After two nervous breakdowns from being in nonstop pain, and a diminished quality of life, Judy was ready to give up on her nervous system and peripheral nerves. “I’m not that kind of person, I always try to stay very positive and think there’s someone out there who has it worse than me. But, the pain wears you down mentally, and I just got to the point I didn’t want to live anymore.”
A Daughter Steps In
Judy’s daughter Tammy saw that her mom was on a downward spiral. “I felt that I was losing my mom and it was time to do something,” Tammy says. As a nurse who had spent 20+ years in the medical field, Tammy was determined to find a solution.
She went online, did her research, found Dr. Anderson, and made an appointment.
Finally, Joy
Both of Judy’s daughters made the trip from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins to take Judy to see Dr. Anderson, and they finally felt like they had a solution. “They believed in him immediately, and they were dancing in the exam room,” Judy says.
Dr. James Anderson, DPM, says “Judy was suffering from severe neuropathy and nerve pain, and was a great candidate for nerve decompression surgery in both legs.”
Nerve decompression surgery takes less than an hour, patients can walk the next day, and most patients experience little to no pain during recovery.
Judy’s Life Today
Just a few weeks after surgery, Judy came back to see Dr. Anderson, and this time, she was crying tears of joy.
“I moved my toes for the first time in twenty years. I felt the pedal of the car, and carpet under my toes, and I can walk!”
Judy is back to living: walking, driving, grocery shopping, and of course, spending time with her daughters. She is building up her strength again after so many years of not being able to stand and walk.
“To me, this is a miracle,” Judy says, “ I feel like I have my life back, and I am so grateful to Dr. Anderson. My husband and I are going to be dancing again by the end of the year.”
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Don’t wait any longer to see if we can help you make your Neuropathy a thing of the past!
I am new to the triathlon arena and I have signed up for the Boulder Half Ironman this fall. I have been training through the winter but not as much as I had hoped. Now that the weather is getting nicer, I have really tried to ramp it up. Be careful as one may end up with a stress fracture.
I am finding training for the Half Ironman to be significantly different than the sprint triathlon training I have done previously. I am starting to experience those aches and pains of pushing my body to the limit. So here’s three of the most common injuries in athletes, how to avoid them, and what to do if you start to experience these symptoms.
1. Stress Fracture
Stress fractures are the most common and they are an overuse injury. The reality is that we often completely ignore our feet. We stuff them in shoes and forget about them, and it is not until they start hurting that we appreciate all that our feet do for us. There are 26 bones and 33 joints in the foot and they are made to take a beating every day. They adapt to different terrains and absorb most of the shock we place on them but if not optimally aligned, our feet can start to fail us.
Can you avoid getting a stress fracture?
With constant stress, the bones in the foot can begin to break down and that’s when a stress fracture develops. At first you might not think much about it, but soon the pain becomes overwhelming and will bring your training to a halt. We often do too much too fast and the musculoskeletal system takes time to adapt. So, to help avoid this injury, make sure you have a steady and gradual increase in your work out. Most programs focus on the cardiovascular aspect, but I would also recommend some type of stretching and strength training at least once a week as well.
Your body needs a day of rest, so make sure you take at least one day off every week and you can focus more of stretching and joint range of motion that day. If you are concerned at all about your foot type and whether your feet and ankles can handle the increased stress placed on them, make sure you get evaluated to see if a pair of arch supports can help to put your feet in that optimal position to potentially avoid a stress fracture or other related injuries from overuse.
What are the treatment options?
If you are dealing with a stress fracture, there is good news. We have great options to help speed up the recovery process and get you back to training. We offer regenerative therapies like platelet-rich plasma injections (PRP) and AmnioFix injections. Both help to enhance your own body’s healing of the area. We will often follow up these types of injections with our MLS laser therapy which promotes healing and reduces pain and swelling in the area.
Our goal is to heal the injury quickly, control the biomechanics of the foot to prevent stress fractures from returning, and get you back to doing the things that you love as quickly as possible.
