Podiatry Services

Podiatry encompasses the diagnoses and management of disorders of the feet and lower leg.

The Podiatry department provides a range of services that are necessary to preserve foot health, prevent disease and disability as well as caring for foot and lower limb complaints.

 Services provided are:

* High risk footcare (e.g. diabetes)

* Bone and joint disorders

* Soft tissue and sports injuries

* Nail surgery

* Biomechanical assessments

* Pediatric conditions

* Prescription orthotics and innersoles superficial conditions

(e.g.corns, calluses, warts)

* Community health education

* Aged care

* Clinical supervision for Podiatry students.

Useful websites:

General-

Australian Podiatry Association (Vic)     www.podiatryvic.com.au

Australasian Podiatry Council                www.apodc.com.au

Diabetes in Italian- www.multilingualdiabetes.org/italian/yourbody/feet.htm

Diabetes in other languages- www.multilingualdiabetes.org

The Podiatry Department of Swan Hill District Health has launched a free booklet aimed at helping you to carry out basic foot care and hygiene.

Our feet are incredibly complex body parts. Each pair of feet is made up of 52 bones, 66 joints, 19 muscles and a network of more than 100 tendons, ligaments, muscles, blood vessels and nerves that support our feet and help to absorb the shocks of walking and running. A person will walk around 128,000kms in the average lifetime – equivalent to walking around the world more than three times (www.podiatryvic.com.au). So with all that walking and the complex make up of our feet, it is really important to look after them.

The Podiatry Department put together this booklet to increase awareness about what Podiatrists do, and don’t do, as well as providing helpful tips and information on looking after your feet. There is also information about what you should look for in footwear, when you should go and see a specialist about your feet and details on how to contact a local Podiatrist.

This booklet is free and available from the following locations in the Hospital – Allied Health Reception, Community Rehabilitation Centre, Emergency Department, Health Promotion Department and the Counseling Service or clicking on this link:  Foot Health Information.

It’s easy to take the two feet we are born with for granted but just try living life without them!