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Doctors at The Foot Institute – Red Deer provide services for the medical and surgical therapy of the foot and ankle. Our doctors invest an average of 10 years in higher education, the first 4 years in undergrad studies to obtain a Bachelors Degree, and the 2nd 4 years in Medical School to acquire a Podiatric Medical Degree. Podiatric Medical School corresponds to conventional medical school and several podiatry programmes are located within these schools. Upon receiving a Podiatric Medial Degree, Doctors at the Foot Institute perform a hospital "internship" or residency for yet another one to three years.
Upon the completion of the internship or residency, our Foot doctors have acquired substantial medical instruction with an attention to on problems pertaining to the feet and ankles. Foot Institute Doctors are educated to address concerns stretching from usual conditions such as ingrown and fungal toenails, to those which are much more obscure including clubfoot, bunions, or reconstructive surgery of the foot. Doctors at the Foot Institute have considerable surgical instruction which supply them the prior experience required to execute surgical treatment on those complications that are ideally treated through surgical treatment.
Foot Institute Doctors likewise have a thorough practical knowledge and understanding of biomechanics, which is the study of the forces which the legs and feet receive as we walk, run or perform other activities. Understanding biomechanics and gait peculiarities makes it easy for a Podiatric physician to design shoes and orthotics which can offer pain relief and help prevent many complications which the feet routinely encounter.