Heel Pain
Ongoing Heel Pain? Shockwave Could Be Your Answer
Otherwise known as radial pressure wave therapy, shockwave therapy is a device held by our podiatrists and positioned against your foot or leg at the site of your injury.
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Shockwave vs Laser For Heel And Foot Pain: Which Is Best?
Heel pain is our specialty here at Perform Podiatry. We now have Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) and Shockwave Therapy to
help you get the best results from your treatment.
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Signs Your Heel Pain Is From A Heel Spur
Heel spurs are a hot topic in our clinic – particularly around whether they’re the underlying cause of a person’s ongoing or recurring heel pain. There’s a lot of confusion and misconceptions around heel spurs, especially in relation to plantar fasciitis heel pain. Here’s what you should know about heel spurs from the heel pain […]
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Causes Of Foot Pain At Work
When you’re busy at work with a seemingly never-ending task list, foot pain slowing you down and holding you back is the last thing you need. Foot pain can have a wide range of causes that require very different care at home, and treatment to get fixed, which is why it’s important to know the […]
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Are Heel Pain & Back Pain Related?
The heels and our back seem miles apart, so could there be a relationship between the two? According to studies, there is, with up to 75% of people with ongoing heel pain being shown to have unmanaged low back pain or low back dysfunction. As podiatrists, this tells us that if our heel pain isn’t […]
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Why Do My Feet Hurt In The Morning?
If you’ve been waking up with sore feet, heels or arches in the morning, this is for you. There’s a very specific kind of heel pain with the following three symptoms that you may relate to: Pain at the bottom of the heel that radiates into the arch Pain when standing up first thing in […]
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Do Ingrown Toenails Cause Foot Pain?
So you currently have – or have recently had – an ingrown toenail. And now you’ve developed some foot or leg pain. What’s going on and could they be linked? How Ingrown Toenails Affect Your Feet First thing’s first: ingrown toenails typically do not cause foot pain. Their pain is usually limited to the toe […]
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Why Won’t My Achilles Tendon Stop Hurting?
A one-off pain at the back of your heel at your Achilles tendon that starts but then shortly subsides for good is one thing. Ongoing Achilles pains and problems that keep reappearing – or even worse, never truly go away – takes the problem to a whole new level of discomfort, frustration and pain. Ongoing […]
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5 Things That Are Causing Your Heel Pain
Heel pain sucks – and we hear this expressed with much pain and frustration daily from our patients. When your ability to walk is affected, it impacts your whole day and freedom to not just do the things you enjoy, but generally complete simple everyday tasks. Treating and relieving heel pain effectively starts with identifying […]
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Work In Retail? Survive The Long Christmas Hours With These Five Tips!
It’s that time again! While it feels like the Christmas decorations have already been in full swing for months in our local Westfield centres, it’s finally December and Christmas is almost upon us! If you work in retail, this means your hours may be ramped up massively – and you’ll be left facing the painful […]
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What is causing your heel pain?
Heel pain is frustrating – and that’s the mildest description of it that we hear from our patients on a regular basis. Heel pain, and foot pain generally, is one of those painful problems where you suddenly realise how much you’ve taken walking around pain-free for granted for your entire life. And it’s true – […]
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Is your child’s foot pain from a tarsal coalition?
From talking to patients about tarsal coalition, we’ve come to realise that this is a term that is not very well known by the general public, unless you or a family member has been affected by heel pain from it. Despite this, tarsal coalition does affect a number of people seeking podiatric help for heel […]
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Haglund’s Deformity: The Bump at the Back of Your Heel
If you’ve noticed a bump at the back of your heel, then you may have a bony enlargement called a Haglund’s Deformity. As we’ve been seeing quite a few patients with these ‘bumps’ who have recently started developing painful symptoms at the back of their heels, we thought we’d fill you in on what’s going […]
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Occupational Podiatry – Helping You at Work
We spend a third of our life at work, with many of us on our feet all day, so it makes sense that the workplace can be a great source of foot pain. Pain at work not only impairs your (and your employees’, if you’re a business owner) performance, but also your mental well-being too. […]
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Why Do I Have Heel Pain, Again?
You’ve had heel pain before and were ecstatic when it finally went away. Weeks, or even months, of taking it easy, wearing the right shoes and orthotics, doing the right stretches and following the sound advice of your Podiatrist had paid off. You were able to hit the ground running, literally, without that gnawing pain, […]
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It’s Back to School – For Teachers too!
January is here and it’s that time of the year where parents are starting to get their kids ready for their new year at school. They’re getting their uniforms sorted, school books, bags, shoes, socks and anything else they may need. But kids aren’t the only ones heading back to school to spend many […]
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Policeman’s Foot Syndrome
We recently had a visit from a policeman with a sore heel and arch. While we diagnosed his condition and prescribed a comprehensive treatment plan to get rid of his pain once and for all, we also learnt something new. We learnt that back in the day when policemen patrolled the streets by foot, this […]
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Shin Splints: Are you getting pain at the front of your legs?
You may have heard of Shin Splints before and the pain it causes at the front of the legs. You may have even experienced it yourself. These days it has become commonplace to describe any pain occurring in the area of the shins as ‘Shin Splints’, though this is not the case. So what exactly […]
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Stop Ankle Sprains turning into Chronic Ankle Instability
We’re all bound to have sprained an ankle at some point in our lives, right? To varying degrees – perhaps you slightly rolled it and the pain went away after an hour or so, or perhaps you tore a ligament and ended up limping for days, if not weeks. Eventually, the pain does go away […]
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Heel Pain – Plantar Fasciitis
If you wake up dreading putting your feet on the ground and taking those first few steps because of an intense pain in your heels, then it sounds like you could have Plantar Fasciitis. Don’t worry! While this condition can be extremely limiting and painful, you’re in the perfect place as heel pain is […]
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