Childrens Feet
Children and adolescents experience a variety of foot and ankle problems. From congenital disorders, such as severe flatfoot, to sports injuries, to ingrown nails. It’s essential that your children get highly capable, results-oriented attention.
The study of children and adolescents within Podiatry is under the category of Podopaediatrics.
Children and adolescents experience a variety of lower limb problems. From congenital disorders, such as severe flatfoot, to sports injuries, to ingrown nails.
Knock knees, bow legs, intoed feet etc are all conditions that should be thoroughly assessed to determine where the problem lies.Quite often no treatment is necessary, however on occasion early intervention can make the difference.
Advising a child to wear orthoses, correct footwear, work on weak/tight musculature etc or occasionally refer to see a specialist orthopedic surgeon may be the outcome of a visit to our clinic.
Often all that is required is assurance that your child's development is occurring normally and nothing other than an annual check is necessary to review the child.
Feet suffer tremendous force everyday and today’s problems can worsen over time. This can negatively affect your child’s physical, social and psychological development.
Footwear advice is another area within Podopaediatrics which is important as selection of the right footwear is made difficult with all the variations available within the market.
We offer a full Orthotic Refurbishment service that will, in most cases, restore our Orthotics to as new condition. This may include topcover and heel posting replacement.
Healthy Step manufacture one of the best pre fabricated orthotic shells on the market today. We can adjust and modify these shells to provide a cheaper more cost effective alternative to an orthotic device made from a 3 dimensional cast of your foot.