I often get asked by patients how to generally tell the difference between skin cancer and normal skin moles. As podiatrist, it is out of our scope of practice to actually differential diagnosed skin conditions. We could only advise patients to go to the GP or the dermatologist for a full skin examination and treatment. […]

A lot of patients come in asking this question and for good reason. Regardless if you are training for a marathon or out walking it is vital that your footwear isn’t the reason that you get injured. Overtime, running shoes compress and no longer provide the same level of shock absorption they once did. This […]

Having an unusually shaped foot or functional impairment of the lower limb is often grounds for the prescription of medical grade footwear (MGF). This may be exacerbated if you have an underlying medical condition such as diabetes, severe arthritis or many other afflictions. Characteristics of MGF include shoes that possess a deeper than usual toe-box […]

Have you noticed the warmer weather over the past few days? Well spring is here and it is time to break those poor feet out of their winter shackles, and get them out in the open. But, do you find once you take them out of your thick woolly socks, and your shoes, they don’t […]