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Medical doctors here at The Foot Institute – Red Deer specialise in the surgical and medical treatment of the foot and ankle. Foot Institute Podiatrists put in an average of a decade in learning, the first 4 years in undergraduate studies to achieve a Bachelors Degree, and the second 4 years in Medical School to secure a Podiatric Medical Degree. Podiatric Medical School corresponds to conventional medical school and in reality several podiatry programmes lie within these schools. Upon attaining a Podiatric Medial Degree, Podiatrists at the Foot Institute finish a hospital "internship" or post degree residency for another one to three years.
Upon the finalization of the internship or post degree residency, our Podiatric physicians have gained encompassing medical training with an emphasis on complications concerning the feet and ankles. Foot Institute Doctors are studied to care for conditions stretching from general ailments such as fungal and ingrown toenails, to those which are even more perplexing including clubfoot, bunions, or reconstructive surgery of the foot. Our Doctors have thorough surgical education which provide them the experience necessary to perform surgery on those conditions that are ideally treated through surgical intervention.
Our Doctors additionally have a thorough expertise and understanding of biomechanics, which is the study of the forces which the legs and feet experience as we walk, run or perform other activities. Realizing biomechanics and gait deviations facilitates a Foot doctor to design shoes and orthotics which can bestow pain relief and reduce the chances of a large number of conditions which the feet generally encounter.