Healthy Feet - Preventative Foot Care

Your feet are an important part of your overall health and well being. Maintaining healthy feet is one of the key areas that the podiatrists at Healthy Steps will work with you to achieve.  Preventing foot pain and injury before they occur is our aim.

How can we help you?

1. Reviewing your gait (the way you walk) and biomechanics of your lower limb. We can then advise you on the best shoe for your foot and help to prevent callus, corns, bunions etc from developing
2. Checking your footwear to ensure it is not causing you foot pain, bunions, ingrown toe nails etc
3. Teach you and your family about how to cut your toe nails correctly to prevent ingrown toe nails and general foot care tips
4. Give advice on how to avoid fungal infections, verruca, smelly feet
5. Advise you on what to look for when regularly checking your feet, and reminding you that foot pain is not normal and can be treated

Healthy Steps Podiatry aims to make sure you are comfortable and pain free on your feet so you can stay mobile, and above all keep active!

Love your feet!

6 foot care tips

1. Your feet walk you around every day; pay them back by moisturising them after you shower and giving them a bit of a massage
2. Wear the appropriate shoes for your chosen activity: working, running, tennis or netball etc.Each activity comes with different demands on your feet, so make sure they are adequately supported and protected
3. Wear a clean and dry pair of socks everyday
4. Exercise: get at least 30 minutes of activity every day to help keep the muscles in your legs strong and to allow plenty of circulation to your feet.
5. Keep your nails short. If your get ingrown nails or have problems cutting your nails then come visit us and we can educate you on the appropriate way to cut them
6. Try not to keep your nail polish on for weeks. Nail polish works as an insulator for bacteria. Take off your nail polish and give your nails a bit of a break.