TOLL FREE: 1-877-444-3668
Doctors at The Foot Institute – Red Deer specialize in the surgical and medical treatment of the foot and ankle. Foot Institute Doctors spend an average of a decade in learning, the first four years in undergraduate studies to obtain a Bachelors Degree, and the second four years in Medical School to obtain a Podiatric Medical Degree. Podiatric Medical School resembles traditional medical school and actually several podiatry programs lie within these schools. After receiving a Podiatric Medial Degree, Physicians at the Foot Institute finish a hospital "internship" or post degree residency for yet another 1 - 3 years.
At the finalization of the internship or residency, our Podiatric physicians have received wide-ranging medical education with an emphasis on conditions concerning the feet and ankles. Foot Institute Doctors are qualified to address complications stretching from regular afflictions like ingrown and fungal toe nails, to those which are a lot more challenging for instance, clubfoot, bunions, or reconstructive surgery of the foot. Our Doctors have considerable surgical instruction which furnish them the skill crucial to perform surgical treatment on those problems that are best remedied through surgical intervention.
Foot Institute Doctors likewise have a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of biomechanics, which is the study of the forces which the legs and feet undergo as we walk, run or carry out other tasks. Learning about biomechanics and gait irregularities empowers a Podiatrist to create shoes and orthotics that can give pain relief and help prevent a large number of issues which the feet routinely encounter.