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Calling All Runners
Calling all runners, we want to hear from you! If you are experiencing any aches and pains during or after your run, we would love to talk to you and discuss exactly how we can help. For a limited period of time, we will be...
Diagnostic Ultrasound at the Sussex Foot Centre
At Sussex Foot Centre we just love Diagnostic Ultrasound! Ultrasound is quick, easy, and straight forward. And the best part is that images can be seen straight away in real time. The moment the ultrasound probe comes into contact with the skin, the picture of exactly...
Sports Massage Therapy at The Sussex Foot Centre
Here at The Sussex Foot Centre, we are now offering Sports Massage Therapy. Our experienced practitioner, Paul Wills will look at the root of your injury. His treatment will therefore cover prevention as well as strategic...
Top Tips For Healthy Feet
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art"Leonardo da Vinci These top tips to help prevent foot problems are courtesy of the College of Podiatry. Follow these simple steps to help keep your feet in tip-top shape and reduce your risk of...
What is Shockwave Therapy?
What is Shockwave Therapy? Shockwave therapy, or, Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT), is a highly effective treatment for pain, chronic soft tissue injuries, as well as certain types of bone conditions. An extracorporeal shockwave is a non-invasive,...
Have I Broken My Toe?
What is this picture? Below is an ultrasound of a ladies little toe. Many people think that an X-ray is needed to show a break in the bone but this isn’t the case. The picture below is proof. It shows there is a break and that it hasn’t healed. Sometimes just knowing...
Choosing The Right School Shoes
It’s that time of the school year again... In recent years we have seen more and more people being 'foot aware', not only the aging population but in children as young as 20 months! A lovely little boy who sadly has ingrown nails that we are managingwith chiropody...
Our 5 Star Plantar Fasciitis Treatment
Check out our latest Patient review... Plantar fasciitis is the most common condition patients bring to the clinic. It can cause pain anywhere from soreness when waking up first thing in the morning to debilitating pain that prevents people from going into work. Now...
Will Nail Surgery Make My Toe Look Ugly?
Many of my patients think that having nail surgery, as in having the sides of the nail removed from the big toe will make the toe look ‘odd’ or ugly. Below are a couple of pictures, the big toe on the left foot is the result of nail surgery I carried out back at the...
Diagnosing A Stress Fracture With Ultrasound
Ultrasound has been discussed on many occasions in our previous blog posts but we haven’t gone into any detail as to the effectiveness of looking at stress fractures. Most people consider a break to be seen on an X-Ray, or...
Ingrown Toenail Treatment Results
Ingrown toenails are a patient issue we see regularly... We always try to treat our patients' ingrown toenails with chiropody, which we define as cutting and trimming down the side to alleviate the nail into the skin. However, in this poor girls instance, we couldn’t...
Plantar Fasciitis: A Brief Overview
Coping with chronic heal pain can be a real pain in the, well, foot. Diagnosing exactly what the issue is can also be difficult without a proper medical examination. However, a likely culprit will be plantar fasciitis – a chronic, weight bearing, repetitive...