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Specialists at The Foot Institute – Red Deer specialize in the medical and surgical therapy of the ankle and foot. Our doctors put in an average of a decade in higher education, the first four years in undergrad studies to achieve a Bachelors Degree, and the next four years in Medical School to obtain a Podiatric Medical Degree. Podiatric Medical School resembles standard medical school and actually several podiatry programs are located within these schools. After achieving a Podiatric Medial Degree, Doctors at the Foot Institute finish a hospital "internship" or residency for another one to three years.
At the completion of the internship or post degree residency, our Doctors have obtained wide-ranging healthcare education with an emphasis on difficulties concerning the feet and ankles. Foot Institute Doctors are trained to address complications stretching from usual afflictions for instance ingrown and fungal toenails, to those which are much more obscure like clubfoot, bunions, or reconstructive surgery of the foot. Doctors at the Foot Institute have substantial surgical instruction which furnish them the practical experience essential to conduct surgery on those complications that are ideally handled through surgical intervention.
Our Doctors additionally have a thorough expertise and understanding of biomechanics, which is the study of the forces which the feet and legs endure as we walk, run or perform other activities. Learning about biomechanics and gait peculiarities allows a Podiatrist to develop footwear and orthotics that can give pain relief and minimize the risk of many conditions which the feet normally experience.