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Specialists at The Foot Institute – Red Deer specialise in the surgical and medical therapy of the foot and ankle. Foot Institute Podiatrists devote approximately ten years in learning, the first four years in undergraduate studies to get a Bachelors Degree, and the next four years in Medical School to obtain a Podiatric Medical Degree. Podiatric Medical School is similar to regular medical school and actually quite a number podiatry programmes are located within these institutions. Upon receiving a Podiatric Medial Degree, Podiatrists at the Foot Institute carry out a hospital "internship" or residency for an additional one to three years.
At the conclusion of the internship or post degree residency, our Podiatrists have acquired substantial medical training with a main focus on concerns regarding the feet and ankles. Our Doctors are educated to care for problems extending from commonplace afflictions for instance ingrown and fungal toenails, to those which are more puzzling for example clubfoot, bunions, or reconstructive surgery of the foot. Doctors at the Foot Institute have extensive surgical education which supply them the experience required to perform surgical treatment on those complications that are best remedied through surgical treatment.
Our Doctors additionally have an extensive expertise and understanding of biomechanics, which is the study of the forces which the feet and legs undergo as we walk, run or carry out other activities. Realizing biomechanics and gait abnormalities makes it possible for a Foot doctor to design shoes and orthotics that can give pain relief and avoid many troubles which the feet regularly encounter.