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Caring For Your Ingrown Toenails After Nail Surgery

If you’ve recently had an ingrown toenail surgery and are wondering how to optimise your recovery, here are some quick tips that we let our patients know about after their procedures. Immediately after your procedure Take the rest of your [...]

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How Can Orthotics Relieve Pain From My Foot?

Orthotics are one of the most common treatment methods we use with foot pain and injury, due to the fantastic results we can achieve with them. If you’re not very familiar with orthotics, you may wonder how orthotics can help [...]

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Flat Feet

Here’s Why Being Pregnant Made Your Feet Bigger

It’s not a myth. Pregnancy really can and does make women go up in shoe size, and unfortunately, for some women, their feet stay bigger too. This phenomenon can be confusing, after all, why can your foot size increase when [...]

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Pediatric Podiatry

Treating In-Toeing In Kids

The position of your children’s feet can either keep them free to run and play, or encourage them to trip, fall and result in pain. In-toeing affects many kids as they learn to walk confidently. At a young age, in-toeing [...]

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Worried About The Way Your Child Is Walking?

“And what is the problem that your daughter is having with her feet?” “She’s walking funny. I don’t know if it’s normal – it doesn’t seem quite right” That right there is a conversation that our receptionist has on the [...]

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Pediatric Podiatry

Auckland School Holiday Activities 2020

School holidays are here and that means one thing: frantically finding activities that ditch the screen time and embrace the outdoors!  We’re parents too, and we (like many others) are seeking (physical) activities that will also ensure the kids will [...]

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Ingrown Toenails

Is Your Ingrown Toenail Oozing Clear or Yellow Pus? It’s Probably Infected

Ingrown toenails are painful and frustrating enough, so the last thing you want is to add an infection to the mix. Unfortunately, in our experience, a large number of ingrown toenails will get infected if proper treatment is undertaken – [...]

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Orthotics

What Having One ‘Slightly Shorter Leg’ Really Means For Your Body – And Pain

We’ve all heard how most of us have one foot that is slightly longer than the other. It may be an unnoticeable difference, or it may be half a shoe size – or more. Well, the same goes for the [...]

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Orthotics

Why Not Having Your Orthotics Checked Every Year Can Put Your Feet At Risk

Orthotics can be fantastic devices. Like glasses that help us see and perform our best each day, orthotics work to alter the way our feet, muscles and bones move with the goal of optimising our overall function and reducing pain, [...]

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Pediatric Podiatry

In-Toeing & Out-Toeing: Should My Child’s Feet Be Pointing That Way?

Kids are constantly surprising us as they grow. They learn quickly, are constantly developing, growing and getting stronger – and not to mention wiser! But how do we know what is and isn’t normal when it comes to their feet [...]

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