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Doctors here at The Foot Institute – Red Deer focus on the medical and surgical treatment of the ankle and foot. Foot Institute Doctors invest approximately ten years in learning, the first four years in undergraduate studies to attain a Bachelors Degree, and the second 4 years in Medical School to obtain a Podiatric Medical Degree. Podiatric Medical School resembles typical medical school and in point of fact many podiatry programmes are located within these institutions. Upon securing a Podiatric Medial Degree, Podiatrists at the Foot Institute finish a hospital "internship" or post degree residency for another one to three years.
At the completion of the internship or residency, our Foot doctors have obtained extensive health care training with an importance on concerns concerning the ankles and feet. Foot Institute Doctors are studied to treat issues extending from commonplace problems such as ingrown and fungal toe nails, to those which are more complicated for instance, clubfoot, bunions, or reconstructive surgery of the foot. Our physicians have significant surgical instruction which supply them the experience necessary to perform surgery on those concerns that are best managed through surgical intervention.
Doctors at the Foot Institute also have an extensive knowledge and understanding of biomechanics, which is the study of the forces which the feet and legs receive as we walk, run or carry out other activities. Realizing biomechanics and gait peculiarities allows a Foot doctor to create shoes and orthotics that can bestow pain relief and help prevent a large number of complications which the feet generally encounter.