Musculoskeletal Podiatry Service
This branch of podiatric medicine focuses specifically on the biomechanics of the muscles and joints of the lower limb, and investigates how abnormal biomechanical issues may be causing pain, dysfunction, or delayed healing in the body. Using a variety of methods, our team can assess your lower limb biomechanics and provide you with a variety of treatment options to help improve pain of dysfunction.
Conditions often seen:
- Foot & ankle pain
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Plantar fasciitis
- Tibialis posterior dysfunction
- Peroneal tendon tears
- Shin pain
- Flat feet (pes planus) & “overpronation”
- Bunions
- Toe, foot, ankle or knee arthritis
- Runners knee & ITB friction syndrome
- Knee, hip and back pain managed alongside Physiotherapists
Initial Appointment
Our assessments can take up to 60 minutes, allowing our experienced clinicians to fully understand your concerns. During this time, they will take a detailed history of your condition before performing a thorough examination of your joint movements, muscle strength, and walking gait. This in-depth assessment helps us determine a clinical diagnosis, after which your clinician will discuss the most suitable treatment options for you.
Treatments:
Treatments often involve a combination of the following:
- Exercise prescription
- Specific stretches
- Advice around workload and training management
- Footwear choice
- Insole or orthotics prescription
- Shockwave therapy
- Referral on to an Allied Health Professional or Orthopaedic Consultant
If your biomechanical presentation is a little more complicated, you may be offered a more in-depth biomechanical assessment of your feet, which utilises technologies such as “FScan” in shoe assessment, and “Dartfish” motion capture software, to gain more information about your biomechanical presentation.
Orthotics:
If a clinical assessment determines that you would benefit from in-shoe foot correction, our Podiatrist may prescribe orthotics. These can be either off-the-shelf options or custom-made to suit your needs.
We offer three types of custom orthotics:
- Temporary orthotics – made on the same day for immediate relief.
- Fabricated orthotics – a custom plate crafted on-site, also available same-day.
- 3D printed orthotics – created from a precise scan of your foot, typically ready within four weeks.
If you think you may need same-day orthotics, please inform our admin team when booking so our podiatrist can allocate the necessary time during your appointment.
While custom orthotics are a long-term investment, off-the-shelf options, adjusted in our on-site lab, provide a more affordable alternative, particularly for children whose feet are still growing. Our Growth Programme ensures your child’s orthotics are updated as they develop, offering continuous support and management so please discuss this with our Podiatrist at your child’s appointment.
Our experienced podiatry team will always explain your options in detail and answer any questions, ensuring the best solution for your foot health.
Joint Podiatry and Physiotherapy Sessions:
When a presentation spans both Podiatry and Physiotherapy specialities, we can offer a joint session which is both time efficient and also enables our clinicians to combine their clinical skills. This service will provide extremely tailored care to the client, and often sees more timely improvements in pain and dysfunction. Please discuss this option when calling to book, if you feel you may benefit from a joint appointment with both a Podiatrist and Physiotherapist.
Prices
Podiatry Assessment – This will include a thorough assessment of your lower limb, and could include the use of various technologies to ensure we fully understand your biomechanics: £150
Podiatry Follow up – This can be a review of the treatments provided at the initial Podiatry assessment, adjustments/alterations to your orthotic prescription or a fitting and analysis of prescribed 3D orthotics: £75
Orthotic prescription & provision - the provision of orthotics (off the shelf or custom) to correct abnormal biomechanics: £60 - £325
Parts of the Podiatry service can be covered by private medical insurance, however please ensure you check with your provider as to what is covered on your individual policy. Most insurance companies will not cover the costs of any form of orthotics.
For more information on our Podiatry Service or to make an enquiry, please contact the Hampshire Wellbeing Centre directly on 02380 475637, by emailing enquiries@hantswellbeingcentre.com or via the enquiry form below:
