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Home Treatment Plan for Heel Pain

5-Step Home Treatment Plan for Heel Pain

Try our ‘5-step home treatment plan’ for heel pain.  If you don’t have relief within 2 weeks, see our Podiatrists for professional care. Wear stable, supportive shoes. While your injury is healing you will need to wear your most supportive shoes, exercise shoes are best.  If your shoes are poor quality, overly flexible or worn […]

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How do I know if a Bunion Splint will help me?

A bunion occurs when your big toe progressively drifts towards your second toe, causing a ‘bump’ at the base of the big toe joint. Bunions develop slowly over time, progressively getting more noticeable, unsightly and more painful.  If a bunion is treated well in the early stages of its development, before the joint stiffens up […]

5 signs you have the wrong shoes

5 signs you have the wrong shoes

Starting a new exercise program in new shoes is a great idea. Exercising in the wrong shoes, however, is a bad idea and can lead to pain, injury and the end of your new exercise program. If you have started exercising and are having problems with recurrent injuries or pain, it might well be your […]

5 Signs Your Child May Have A Foot Problem

5 Signs Your Child May Have A Foot Problem

it’s not normal for kids to complain of foot, leg or knee pain Pain or Limping It is never normal for a child to have foot, knee or leg pain. If pain lasts for more than few days, have it checked. Your child can’t keep up with their peers in sport. If your child has […]

Walking the Milford Track

Walking the Milford Track

Foot Health Clinic patient Karen Dunshea shares her experience of walking the Milford Track in New Zealand’s South Island. Photos (excluding title image) by Stephen Havas. For a very long time I have wanted to walk the Milford Track in NZ’s South Island, which I did with my partner at the very end of the […]

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3 Simple Foot Exercises to help people with Bunions

Like the rest of your body, the joints of your feet need to be supported by strong, flexible muscles. This is especially so, if you have a foot problem like bunions. To avoid injuries and move well, you need strong ‘core’ stability.  However, many people don’t realise that a strong ‘core’ is of limited benefit, […]

Main Range National Park

Hiking The Main Range, Pleasure and Pain

Our intrepid explorer Oliver Fawcett recently did a three day back country hike with some Samford locals in the Main Range National Park. It was a truly magnificent trip with its fair share of pleasure and pain. Our intrepid explorer Oliver Fawcett did a three day back country hike with some Samford locals in the […]

foot health clinic walks the camino de santiago

Foot Health Clinic Walks the Camino de Santiago

In September 2014, podiatrists Oliver Fawcett and Kim Edwards, together with their 12-year-old twin daughters, Lucca and Finlay, completed 350km of the Camino de Santiago, a centuries-old pilgrimage to the shrine of St James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. Here Oliver reports on the difference having the right footwear and […]

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