Podiatry for people with chronic health conditions
Living with a chronic health condition can significantly impact foot health, mobility, and overall well-being. Our podiatry services offer tailored care to manage and reduce complications, ensuring your feet remain healthy and supported.
Diabetes
Diabetes can affect foot health, leading to nerve damage, poor circulation, and slow-healing wounds.
- Impact: Can cause diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage), poor circulation, and increased risk of foot ulcers, infections, and amputations.
- Symptoms: Numbness, tingling, wounds that heal slowly, and changes in foot shape.
Arthritis
Arthritis impacts foot joints, causing pain, inflammation, and deformities in toes or arches.
- Osteoarthritis: Leads to joint degeneration and deformities in toes or arches.
- Rheumatoid arthritis: Causes inflammation, swelling, and joint deformities in the feet.
- Gout: A form of arthritis that often targets the big toe, causing sudden, severe pain.
Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
PAD reduces blood flow, causing pain, slow wound healing, and potential tissue damage in the feet.
- Impact: Reduces blood flow to the feet, leading to pain, poor wound healing, and tissue damage.
- Symptoms: Leg pain while walking, cold feet, and discoloration.
Lupus
Lupus can inflame and damage skin and foot joints, impacting mobility and comfort.
- Impact: the immune system, which normally protects the body from infections, mistakenly attacks the body’s own tissues and organs causing inflammation and damage
- Symptoms: Inflammation and damage to the skin, joints of the feet.
Neuropathy
Neuropathy causes sensation loss or tingling, leading to unnoticed injuries and foot pain.
- Often caused by diabetes, alcoholism, or nerve disorders.
- Impact: Burning, tingling, or loss of sensation, which can lead to unnoticed injuries.
- Symptoms: Pain, swelling, and difficulty wearing shoes.
Chronic Venous Insufficiency
This condition leads to swelling, skin changes, and ulcers due to poor blood flow in the legs.
- Impact: Causes blood to pool in the lower legs and feet.
- Symptoms: Swelling, varicose veins, skin changes, and ulcers.
Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis cause painful skin lesions and joint inflammation in the feet.
- Psoriasis can cause painful skin lesions on the feet, while psoriatic arthritis affects the joints.
- Symptoms: Scaling skin, inflammation, and joint pain.
Fungal Infections (e.g., Athlete's Foot)
Fungal infections cause skin discomfort, cracked nails, and secondary complications if untreated.
- Can become chronic and cause discomfort or secondary infections. Often affects the toes nails
- Symptoms: Itching, cracking skin, and redness of the skin, Thickening, bicolouration and deformities of the toenails
Lymphedema
Fungal infections cause skin discomfort, cracked nails, and secondary complications if untreated.
- Impact: Chronic swelling in the feet and ankles due to fluid retention.
- Symptoms: Thickened skin and recurrent infections.
Stroke
Stroke affects nerve functions, causing weakness, muscle spasms, and balance or coordination difficulties.
- Impact: Changes in the nerve functions
- Symptoms: Weakness or Paralysis on one side of the body, muscle spasms and tightness, changes in sensations, loss of balance and coordination
Management
Do you want specific advice on managing or preventing any of these conditions?
- Risk evaluation and advice, regular foot care, comfortable footwear, and monitoring for injuries or changes.
- Footwear advice and modifications, prescription orthtotics, therapies to help pain and inflammation
Why Choose Ballarat Podiatrist ?
Dedicated Team
The passionate Ballarat Podiatrist team is dedicated to creating a comfortable environment for our clients. We’ll go above and beyond to provide you with the care you need and desire.
Patient First Care
We take the time to listen to our clients and understand their concerns. We work with you to create a treatment plan that addresses your specific condition and concerns.
Holistic Wellness
As a leading force in holistic wellness, Ballarat Podiatrist has adopted a modality referral system to ensure that clients receive a tailored and comprehensive approach their care.
Podiatry for People
with chronic health conditions
In summary, our podiatry services are tailored to help manage and reduce complications from chronic health conditions. Do you want specific advice on managing or addressing these concerns? Contact us today for personalised care and guidance.
