CONDITIONS
Feet, ankles, and the things that load them
Each group below sets out how the first visit works and what decides the next step, so you know what you are booking before you ring — not after.
What we see, grouped
Eight things covers most of it. If yours is not on the list it is still worth ringing.
Heel, tendon & joint pain
The reason most people ring.
- Plantar heel pain. The morning-step pain that has been there for months. A specific loading program, a shoe change and an $80 insert, tried in that order, before anything custom is mentioned.
- Achilles tendinopathy. Pain and thickening in the tendon, worse after rest. Graded loading, reviewed at every visit rather than left to run on its own.
- Bunions & toe deformity. We can ease pain and improve footwear fit. We cannot straighten the joint non-surgically, and we say so rather than sell a device that claims to.
Nails, skin & forefoot
Usually the quickest fixes in the practice.
- Ingrown toenails. Conservative care where possible, or a permanent partial nail avulsion under local anaesthetic in one appointment.
- Forefoot pain & neuroma. Burning or a sense of walking on a pebble under the ball of the foot. Footwear width is checked first, and is often the whole answer.
Diabetes, kids & load
Where getting it right matters most.
- Diabetes-related foot problems. Annual nerve, circulation and pressure testing with a risk rating, reviewed more often where the risk is higher. Bulk billed with a GP care plan.
- Children’s foot & leg pain. Heel pain, flat feet, in-toeing and growing pains, checked against normal developmental milestones rather than assumed to need treatment.
- Shin pain & bone stress. Training volume and footwear reviewed before any imaging, because imaging rarely changes the plan for a load-related injury.
NOT SURE
Not sure it's a podiatry problem?
Describe it on the phone. Some of what comes to us belongs with a GP, a physio or a vascular surgeon, and you will be told that before you pay for an appointment.
First appointment usually inside two days
No referral needed. Two slots are held free every day for diabetic foot emergencies.