Foot Pain Causes & Treatments

As our name suggests, at FOOTPhysics we’re experts in diagnosing and treating foot pain, foot injuries and other foot conditions. If you experience pain in your feet, our Orthopaedic Podiatrist, Chris Parish, has over 23 years of experience treating a wide range of foot conditions, finding the causes of the pain in your feet, then treating that foot pain effectively and efficiently – returning you to full health in the shortest time possible.

Professional athletes, whose livelihood depends on their fitness, depend on Chris’s ability to diagnose and treat pain in their feet, and foot injuries they’ve incurred – returning them to peak fitness as quickly as possible. Chris has successfully treated Professional Footballers, Professional Rugby Union and Rugby League Players, Former World Champion Skiers and other athletes at the top of their game.

We don’t just treat athletes – we treat any age of adult or child, from all walks of life. Even if you’re not a professional athlete, you’re assured of the same premier-league treatment, where we’ll get to the root of your pain in feet and treat it effectively. You depend on your feet, and you can depend on us.

To discuss your foot pain or your child’s foot pain, or to make an appointment to see Chris Parish about your foot injury, please call us, email us or use our simple online contact form

Visit the Foot Treatment section of our shop

Click on the area where you have pain on the image below – ankle, heel, forefoot or big toe – you’ll be taken to the page that tells you more about pain and conditions affecting that area, and treatments.

Select the part of your foot where you are experiencing pain:

Contents

1. Foot Facts
2. Types Of Foot Pain And Foot Injuries
3. Causes and Treatments Of Forefoot Pain and Forefoot Conditions
4. Causes and Treatments Of Big Toe Pain and Big Toe Conditions
5. Causes and Treatments Of Ankle Pain and Ankle Conditions
6. Causes and Treatments Of Heel Pain and Heel Conditions
7. Find Out More About Bunions (Hallux Valgus)
8. Causes and Treatments Of Child Forefoot Pain and Forefoot Conditions
9. Causes and Treatments Of Child Big Toe Pain and Big Toe Conditions
10. Causes and Treatments Of Child Ankle Pain and Ankle Conditions
11. Causes and Treatments Of Child Heel Pain and Heel Conditions

Foot Facts

• The body is a mass of constantly changing variables with nerves, muscles, sensations, pain and mental attitudes. We are all different and we each have our own unique variations in structure.
• In human mechanics (biomechanics), when a small force is applied to the foot, it is amplified through the joints, bones and muscles so that by the time that force gets to the knee, hip, back or neck the effect of the force is much greater.
• Between 75% and 80% of the adult population have some form of foot problem and about 80% of the population demonstrates some degree of postural (hips, back, neck) complaint.

• We were designed to walk on forever changing surfaces like grass, mud, sand, all of which yield to us. However, we decided to flatten all that out so now we walk on hard, flat unyielding surfaces. So, whatever shape we have been made (bow legs, knock knees or smaller differences we cannot see) we have to adapt our shape to fit the ground. This involves moving our joints slightly further in one direction or another and produces extra forces. Those forces go up through the body and can create aches or injury in the feet, ankles, legs, knees, hips or back.
• There are 44 million working days lost each year and women have approximately four times as many foot problems as men.

Types Of Foot Pain And Foot Injuries

To enable you to locate the most relevant conditions for your particular foot pain or foot condition, our foot conditions section is broken into the separate areas of your foot, pain can affect.

Click the links below to go to the relevant pages for your particular foot condition

1. Causes and Treatments Of Forefoot Pain and Forefoot Conditions
2. Causes and Treatments Of Big Toe Pain and Big Toe Conditions
3. Causes and Treatments Of Ankle Pain and Ankle Conditions
4. Causes and Treatments Of Heel Pain and Heel Conditions
5. Find Out More About Bunions (Hallux Valgus)
6. Causes and Treatments Of Child Forefoot Pain and Forefoot Conditions
7. Causes and Treatments Of Child Big Toe Pain and Big Toe Conditions
8. Causes and Treatments Of Child Ankle Pain and Ankle Conditions
9. Causes and Treatments Of Child Heel Pain and Heel Conditions

To discuss your foot pain or your child’s foot pain, or to make an appointment to see Chris Parish about your foot injury, please call us, email us or use our simple online contact form

Visit the Foot Treatment section of our shop