Foot Problems
The foot is one of the most taken-for-granted parts of the body. We just expect it to carry the weight of every step every day of our lives without complaining no matter what we do... or what we wear. If a toe throbs, an arch collapses or an ankle keeps giving way, every daily activity is affected. Perhaps sporting aspirations are compromised or simply walking is a challenge.
Orthopaedic surgery is the area of medicine specialising in the surgical treatment of the skeleton; its bones, joints and the soft tissues (ligaments, tendons, nerves) surrounding it. A feature of modern medicine is that doctors are constantly becoming more specialised, such is the depth and breadth of knowledge within each discipline. Our speciality of foot and ankle surgery is the fastest expanding area of orthopaedics, such has been the pace of development during recent years.
We can do more for more people with more confidence of success than ever before. We cannot solve everything but it is unusual not to be able to help.
This site will help you decide if we are the right doctors for you to see and, if so, tells you how to Contact Us to make an appointment. You can learn about Foot and Ankle Symptoms, the conditions (Diagnoses) that cause them and the Treatments we use by exploring further. Please note that the discussions are for interest only and are not intended for self diagnosis.
Clicking on a condition will take you to a page describing it and listing the treatments most often used. Further information about those treatments is found, in turn, by clicking on them. Where this is an operation, an information leaflet about the more common ones can be downloaded.