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Health professionals at The Foot Institute – Red Deer provide services for the surgical and medical treatment of the ankle and foot. Foot Institute Podiatrists invest around ten years in higher education, the first four years in undergrad studies to achieve a Bachelors Degree, and the following four years in Medical School to attain a Podiatric Medical Degree. Podiatric Medical School corresponds to typical medical school and in reality various podiatry programmes are located inside these schools. Upon obtaining a Podiatric Medial Degree, Doctors at the Foot Institute complete a hospital "internship" or residency for yet another 1 - 3 years.
Upon the finalization of the internship or residency, our Foot doctors have obtained substantial healthcare education with an importance on difficulties involving the feet and ankles. They are trained to manage conditions stretching from simple problems for example, fungal and ingrown toenails, to those which are far more perplexing for example clubfoot, bunions, or reconstructive surgery of the foot. Doctors at The Foot Institute have significant surgical training which furnish them the prior experience necessary to perform surgical treatment on those complications that are ideally managed through surgical intervention.
Doctors at the Foot Institute additionally have a comprehensive expertise and understanding of biomechanics, which is the study of the forces which the legs and feet undergo as we walk, run or perform other activities. Understanding biomechanics and gait peculiarities empowers a Podiatric physician to design footwear and orthotics which can bestow pain relief and help prevent a large number of conditions which the feet routinely experience.