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Physicians at The Foot Institute – Red Deer provide services for the medical and surgical therapy of the foot and ankle. Our doctors put in around ten years in education, the first four years in undergraduate studies to acquire a Bachelors Degree, and the following four years in Medical School to obtain a Podiatric Medical Degree. Podiatric Medical School is similar to usual medical school and actually several podiatry programmes are located inside these academic institutions. After acquiring a Podiatric Medial Degree, Physicians at the Foot Institute complete a hospital "internship" or post degree residency for yet another one to three years.
At the completion of the internship or residency, our Foot doctors have acquired wide-ranging medical instruction with a main focus on problems pertaining to the feet and ankles. They are trained to care for problems extending from commonplace problems like ingrown and fungal toenails, to those which are even more perplexing for example, clubfoot, bunions, or reconstructive surgery of the foot. Our physicians have considerable surgical instruction which supply them the experience vital to carry out surgery on those issues that are best managed through surgical treatment.
Our Doctors additionally have a comprehensive expertise and understanding of biomechanics, which is the study of the forces which the feet and legs go through as we walk, run or perform other activities. Having knowledge of biomechanics and gait deviations permits a Podiatrist to design shoes and orthotics which can give pain relief and avoid numerous troubles which the feet usually encounter.