Clinical Podiatry
Our centres provide the full scope of clinical podiatry including comprehensive foot assessments, various treatments and surgery.
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Thuringowa Podiatry Clinic
My FootDr Thuringowa clinic and retail shoe store (formerly Balance Podiatry) is located at Willows Shopping Centre, Thuringowa offers the full range of podiatry services and boasts an on-site footwear store. We stock a huge range of supportive and comfortable footwear with brands such as Ziera, Revere, Saucony, Altra and more on-site.
The Podiatry clinic and retail shoe store boast the full scope of services needed to treat all types of foot conditions for the entire family. The clinic stocks a large range of shoes so our patients can find the right shoe for them. We specialise in treating all conditions of the feet, ankles and lower legs utilising the latest technology to do so.
Our Podiatry Services Include:
Sports Podiatry: For athletes and sporting enthusiasts we help keep you healthy and on your feet. Our experienced podiatrists provide a comprehensive approach to assessing an individual’s needs. Our podiatrists will assess foot function and the effect this has on the lower limb performance and efficiency.
Children’s Podiatry: Feet are for life, that’s why at My FootDr our podiatrists put children’s feet first. Our podiatry team understand the importance of healthy feet for kids and can treat a range of children’s foot conditions.
Custom-foot Orthotics: At My FootDr our podiatrists may prescribe orthotics to treat a range of foot, leg and lower limb problems. Our orthotics a custom-made to your feet and are designed to improve, support or correct an individual’s foot position. They may alleviate or prevent foot, leg, knee, hip or back pain.
Fungal Nail Laser Treatment: Don’t waste time with paint on treatments, treat fungal nail toenail infections today.
Our Podiatrists are all highly skilled in current best practice treatments. Our podiatrists treat patients from all over Townsville including Kirwan, Thuringowa, Kelso, Mount Louisa, Cranbrook, Condon, Rasmussen and surrounding suburbs.
We support rebates from all health funds.
Footwear Brands Available
Birkenstock Footwear
Birkenstock have a passion for their products, an appreciation of their heritage and a genuine belief in their benefits. Their business reflects how they represent themselves – quality products that are comfortable, unique, timeless and respectful of the world around us.
Happy Socks
Happy Socks started in the spring of 2008. Two friends had a vision: to spread happiness by turning an everyday essential into a colourful design piece with a rigid standard of ultimate quality, craftsmanship and creativity. Simply put: there's a pair of high-quality socks and underwear for every occasion, mindset and style.
Brighten your day with Happy Socks! Available at selected My FootDr locations.
Merrell Footwear
Merrell footwear combines sophisticated style with legendary outdoor performance. They recognise the significant differences between women and men’s feet and design footwear which provides the unique profile, bone structure and stride that women need for greater comfort and performance. Merrell is constantly innovating new technologies and products to help you get outside – from city streets to mountain trails (and everywhere in between).
Naot Footwear
Naot's features a rich variety of shoes, boots, clogs and sandals for women, designed in line with the latest world fashion trends to combine comfort and style.
Revere Footwear
Revere footwear provides all day comfort, functionality and support by enhancing foot health for those experiencing heel pain, tired aching feet, sore knees and lower back pain. Designed in collaboration with leading footwear experts to provide maximum adjustability to support many foot types.
Saucony Footwear
Saucony exists for runners. Runners drive their design and engineering. This focus and passion fuels Saucony to strive to create the best running shoes and apparel on the planet. Saucony leave work each day knowing they have done everything to make runners’ lives just a little bit better.
Skechers Footwear
Skechers is the global leader in the performance and lifestyle footwear industry; designing, developing and marketing more than 3,000 styles for men, women and children. With offerings of two distinct footwear categories: a lifestyle division and performance footwear. Sketchers offers a comfortable experience to those with busy lifestyles, or those who simply seek a secure, snug fit.
Vionic Footwear
Vionic's Orthaheel technology is based on more than 30 years of podiatric medical success and innovative collaboration from renowned experts in biomechanics and foot health. We are confident that you will love the way their shoes make you feel.
Ziera Footwear
Ziera is passionate about how their shoes look, fit and feel. They combine years of expertise and understanding of women’s feet with premium materials to design shoes with maximum comfort and style at their heart; shoes that must look as good as their feel and live up to the everyday demands of women getting on with their busy lives.
Local News
What are plantar warts and how are they caused?
Having warts on the bottom of the feet that won’t go away is a frustrating, ongoing problem that can last months or even years. They can make walking unpleasant but also painful. While many people are told that they should just wait for the wart to go away on its own, or to use padding in the meantime that only ever provides a little temporary relief, the reality is that when left untreated, warts can stick around for a very long time.
What are plantar warts and how are they caused?
Plantar warts are small, rough, round growths that are medically known as verrucae and present on the bottom of the foot. They’re caused by a virus called the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in the outer skin layer and are often contracted in childhood. Once you’ve contracted the virus, you’ll always have it in your system, so plantar warts may pop up spontaneously throughout your lifetime.
Do You Have Toenail Pain?
Ingrown toenails on a woman's foot, pain in the big toe closeup
Ingrown toenails, also known as onychocryptosis, are a common and painful complaint. A true ingrown toenail is when a spike or edge of nail pierces the skin at the nail edge. This is known as the sulcus and can cause inflammation and even lead to infection.
There are a variety of factors that can cause ingrown toenails. The most common cause is due to improper cutting of your toenail and leaving a spike of nail in the sulcus. It can also be a result of a curved nail, known as an involuted nail, from external pressure.
If you are experiencing pain, redness, and swelling around your toenail, it may be time to consider seeing one of our podiatrists. With over 30 years of combined experience in treating foot and ankle conditions, we have successfully treated many cases of ingrown toenails.
Preventing Falls Lands On Foot Health
Approximately 200,000 Australians are hospitalised every year as a result of having a fall. Bone fractures are the most common type of injury resulting from a fall. While falls are most common in those aged over 65, young males aged 5-24 years are also particularly prone to falls.
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Do you have sore feet after running?
As the fun run season approaches, a lot of athletes are training hard to achieve their fitness goals. However, if you're waking up with sore feet, heels or legs after a run, in most cases, it’s treatable and preventable.
5 Tips To Treat Heel Pain
Are you one of the 48% of Australians that wakes up with heel pain once a week?
If heel pain is impacting how you move, how you feel, and how you live, then it’s time to get help from My FootDr.
Heel pain, often caused by plantar fasciitis, is a common condition that can cause severe pain at the bottom and inside of the heel. This pain may radiate up into the arch, and indicates that there is some damage to, and subsequent inflammation of, the long band of tissue under the foot known as the plantar fascia.
Fungal toenail talk is no longer taboo
Onychomycosis is a word that has probably never been used in your household before. As the medical name for fungal nail infections, it might also not be something that gathers much airtime at the family dinner table either. However, while some people may feel embarrassed revealing such a foot condition, there really is nothing taboo about talking about toenails.