Are You Using The Off Season Wisely?

If you’re competitive by nature and love playing Rugby, Netball, Football, Hockey or other Winter Sport it’s quite difficult to stop mid season and rest for recovery, especially during the season when you feel your team needs you. Did you have an Injury this year? If you did have an injury, were you one hundred…

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What Are The Best Footwear For Sore Heels?

Everyday items can hold more importance than one would think. Shoes, for instance, are an instrumental part of healing from conditions like Plantar Fasciitis. However a shoe that doesn’t support or protect the foot, like walking barefoot, has the opposite effect and can cause or irritate the condition. This poses a big question: What to…

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Can my Injury affect my Mental Fitness?

When we are injured physically, most of the time we do not think about the potential effects on our mental health or how our mental health might be affected. it is very important to consider because it affects the experience a patient is having at the time of their injury. The positive physical and mental…

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The Very Best Way to Stop Your Heels Hurting in the Morning

What is a Pre-Load Stretch? One of the most common features of Plantar Fasciitis is the heel and arch pain you first get out of bed in the morning, it’s a sharp, shooting pain under your heel. In Podiatry, this is what we refer to as “First Step Pain”. It usually eases after 2-5 minutes…

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How much is Enough? Increasing Movement and Mobility with Footwear Modifications

Footwear modifications increased Understanding and Improved Patient Outcomes at Waikato Podiatry Clinic; I recently presented on this topic at the Podiatry New Zealand conference and was met with good reception from Podiatrists around this idea.      In more severe cases where the lower limb angles are higher.   Standardised footwear and orthotics are not…

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A Ripple Effect: How Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy came to Podiatry.

Have you ever been in to see the Podiatrist and wondered what some of those machines in the room do? One of them is probably for Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) because of the great pain-relieving effects on musculoskeletal areas. But how did we discover that shockwaves can be healing?  Timeline After World War II, patients…

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Why Do I Keep Rolling My Ankle?

Why Do I Keep Rolling My Ankle - Waikato Podiatry

It is Andrew from Waikato Podiatry here, and I have come to talk to you about recurrent ankle sprains. I recently read an article about this subject and it found that 10% of people that have ankle sprains do no proprioceptive rehabilitation, following their ankle sprain. What is Proprioception? Proprioception is one of the key…

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Stability is Mobility: How to Prevent Falls

Are you prone to falls? There might be something you can do! The secret lies in increasing your mobility in two major places.  Improve your balance and get moving with Nymbl Happy Nymbl users across the world are improving their balance, and reducing their fall risk, in the comfort and safety of their homes. Nymbl…

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What is Hiker’s Wool?

Hiker’s Wool: An Explanation When you first come out of Podiatry school, you feel like you are cutting edge, and have all the answers on how you are going to help people (at least i did). Lambs wool seems like an outdated, useless solution, and something you would never consider using in these modern times..…

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