PODIATRY
Our experienced Podiatrists in Noosa are trained to diagnose and manage disorders, injuries and pain affecting the foot, ankle and lower limbs.
What conditions does a Podiatrist treat?
Common lower limb conditions that a Podiatrist can manage include:
- Foot pain
- Ingrown or discoloured skin and nails
- Corns and callous
- Skin rashes
- Foot odour
- Foot injuries
- Broader health problems such as diabetes or arthropathies
- Recurrent tripping or falling
- Problems fitting comfortably in your regular shoes
- Oedema, lumps, or redness in the feet or legs.
What techniques do Podiatrists use?
Our Noosa Podiatrists implement a combination of medical, surgical and rehabilitation techniques to provide personalised care to alleviate pain, restore mobility and improve a person’s quality of life.
Podiatry Scope of Practice:
Nail surgeries:
Partial and total nail evolutions using local anaesthetic administration with or without chemical matrixectomy depending on outcome goals.
MSK and Biomechanics:
Full gait analysis and personalised treatment plans. Commonly encountered conditions contributing to foot pain that podiatrists see include accessory bones, tendinopathies and enthesopathies, plantar fasciitis, ankle sprains, digital malalignment and bunions. Podiatrists incorporate management such as padding, strapping, orthotic devices, strengthening, stretching education and other treatment modalities to achieve pain relief and prevent pathologies from developing.
Chronic disease management including:
Wound management, oedema management, diabetes related foot assessments, footwear and orthotic prescription and manufacture to accommodate gross foot deformity, education and prevention of pathologies secondary to neuropathies and peripheral arterial disease. Our Podiatrists in Noosa can assist with foot and lower limb related pain, deformity and gait abnormalities secondary to neurological conditions such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease and Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, rheumatological conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis. Footwear recommendation, education and health promotion is incorporated into all podiatry Noosa consultations.
Orthotics prescription and manufacture:
Assessment and prescription of customised orthotic devices suitable to support biomechanical abnormalities and alleviate foot or lower limb pain to ensure active lifestyles can be maintained.
Paediatrics:
Commonly encountered conditions include in-toeing, out-toeing, toe walking, calcaneal apophysitis, coalitions, verrucae management, ingrown toenails, sweaty feet, irregular shoe wear patterns, rotational variations in the lower limb. Podiatrists address growth and development conditions with a combination of strength and conditioning, education, footwear recommendations or orthoses and coordinate care involving the multidisciplinary team as required.
Neurovascular:
Neurological foot assessments to diagnose peripheral neuropathy; toe brachial pressure indices, absolute toe pressures and doppler wave form interpretation to assess, diagnose and monitor peripheral arterial disease; compression garment prescription, skin and nail pathologies secondary to neurovascular changes, education and self-management, charcot neuroarthropathy identification, coordination of treatment and follow up care.
Radiological:
Podiatrists are able to refer patients for X-rays and ultrasound of the foot and ankle under the MBS and MRI and CT without the medicare rebate. We use imaging modalities as an adjunct to physical assessment to assist in our clinical diagnosis of various pathologies.
Skin and nail care:
This is useful for many people including patients who are ageing and living with complex and chronic disease and are no longer able to easily and safely care for their own foot health. General foot treatments occur regularly and include skin and nail care including debulking thickened, gryphotic and unsightly nails, fungal nail treatment and, callous debridement.
Wound care:
Podiatrists are highly skilled at the management of arterial, venous and neuropathic foot and lower limb ulcerations.
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