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Mackay Podiatry Clinic
The friendly My FootDr podiatry team at Mackay (formerly Balance Podiatry) are here to provide the local community with a range of quality foot-care services for all patients, including all suburbs within Mackay. Call us today!
The My FootDr team at Mackay, formerly Balance Podiatry, pride themselves on providing the local community with the highest-quality podiatry services and treatments available. Located on Victoria Street, the same friendly faces you have grown to know and trust will continue as your foot health care professionals, providing you with the best service and latest technology. Our friendly podiatry team have been focused on delivering premium podiatry and orthotic services to the local community since 2002.
The Mackay podiatry clinic is home to podiatrist Lachie Crawford who joined the practice in early 2016. He is supported by a team of local podiatrists who all have a passion for all areas of podiatry, with a particular interest in sports medicine and lower limb biomechanics. Our friendly team are able to assist with a range of services including:
- Clinical podiatry
- Custom foot orthotics
- Video gait analysis
- Fungal nail infection laser treatment
- Diabetic footcare
- Custom footwear
- National Disability Insurance Scheme
- CAM walker (moon boot)
- Seniors footcare
- Shockwave therapy
- Footwear
- Paraffin wax bath treatment
- Cryotherapy for Plantar Warts
Our Mackay podiatry clinic has consistently provided care for people of all ages and lifestyles across Mackay, with the same friendly faces you have grown to know and trust servicing as your foot health care professionals. Our podiatry clinic also has an on-site shoe store that stocks leading brands including Ziera, Merrell, Naot, Saucony and more. For any questions or to arrange an appointment make sure to call us today or book online.
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.
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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Balance Podiatry has partnered with My FootDr
All 10 Balance Podiatry shoe stores and podiatry clinics will change their name to My FootDr by mid-2018, joining more than 50 locations nationally to create Australia’s largest podiatry network.
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.
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.