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Got a nagging pain under the ball of your foot — right near the base of the second toe — that just won’t settle? Maybe your toe is starting to drift sideways, or sit slightly higher than it used to? You’ve probably been told it’s a neuroma, capsulitis, or “just metatarsalgia.” But there’s a very […]
Have you noticed that one of your feet is starting to look flatter than the other? Or that your inner ankle aches more and more by the end of the day? You may be dealing with posterior tibial tendon dysfunction (PTTD) — the most common cause of adult-acquired flatfoot, and one of the most under-recognised […]
Ever felt a deep, achy pain in the ball of your foot — right at the base of the second toe — that gets worse the longer you’re on your feet? It’s one of the more underdiagnosed causes of forefoot pain we see in clinic, and it has a name most people have never heard: […]
If you follow the NRL, you’ve probably heard the word “Lisfranc” more than you’d like in recent seasons. Latrell Mitchell, Connor Watson, Corey Horsburgh — Lisfranc injuries have sidelined some of the toughest players in Rugby League for months at a time. But it’s not just professional athletes. We see Lisfranc injuries in weekend touch […]
If you’ve had heel pain for any length of time, you’ve probably been told you have “plantar fasciitis.” It’s one of the most common diagnoses in podiatry — affecting roughly 1 in 10 people at some point in their life — but the name itself is actually a bit misleading. In many cases, what’s really […]
Feels like you’re walking on a pebble — or a sock bunched up under your toes — but there’s nothing there? That’s the classic description of a Morton’s neuroma, and it’s one of the more common causes of forefoot pain we see in clinic. The good news is that most cases settle well with conservative […]
Sports injuries account for around 1 in 5 of all injuries we see in clinic — and most of them involve the foot, ankle or lower leg. Whether you’re playing weekend touch footy at Empire Park, training for a marathon along Bar Beach, or coaching juniors through winter netball, an injury to the lower limb […]
That toe that won’t lie flat anymore? It’s probably hammertoe — and the earlier you act, the more options you have. In its early stages hammertoe is flexible and very treatable without surgery. Once the joint becomes rigid, options narrow. Most people we see in clinic have lived with it for years before booking, often […]
As winter sport season gets underway across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, one of the most common calls we receive at East Coast Podiatry Clinic is from worried parents: “My child has been complaining about heel pain since football/netball/soccer started — what’s going on?” In most cases, the answer is Sever’s disease — and while the […]
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