After over 22 years as clinical Podiatrist at the Cairns Base High Risk Foot Service, i have resigned to spend more time in my private practice.

This will allow me to make myself available in my private practice more often as well as expand into visiting General Practitioners offices treating their patients on site, providing a complete an holistic approach to Podiatry care for people that can’t always make it into a Podiatry office due to mobility and transport. I am looking forward to this new aspect of my practice and can’t wait to provide this early in July and August.

I am starting to see more kids again this year with classic sore feet and arches. It is often a condition called “Sever’s Disease” which sounds daunting but is really just an inflammation of the growth plate at the back of the heel where the achilles tendon inserts into the heel bone. It is often a boy 4x more than girls, usually with rolled-in sore feet and low arches as well as tight muscles in the back of the leg.

The good news is that it is easily treated with ICE after school, training and sports~~ stretching regime BEFORE school training and sport and again before bed. This coupled with the right shoe and orthotic insert can burn this condition out quite rapidly. Without treatment, it can drag on for a few years. Come and see us today for an assessement! 1300467837.

Sourced from www.kidshealth.org

About Sever’s Disease

Sever’s disease, also called calcaneal apophysitis, is a painful bone disorder that results from inflammation (swelling) of the growth plate in the heel. A growth plate, also called an epiphyseal plate, is an area at the end of a developing bone where cartilage cells change over time into bone cells. As this occurs, the growth plates expand and unite, which is how bones grow.

Sever’s disease is a common cause of sore feet in growing kids, especially those who are physically active. It usually occurs during the growth spurt of adolescence, the approximately 2-year period in early puberty when kids grow most rapidly. This growth spurt can begin any time between the ages of 8 and 13 for girls and 10 and 15 for boys. Sever’s disease rarely occurs in older teens because the back of the heel usually finishes growing by the age of 15, when the growth plate hardens and the growing bones fuse together into mature bone.

Sever’s disease is similar to Osgood-Schlatter disease, a condition that affects the bones in the knees.

Due to the great demand for my services I am gearing up to spend more time in the Tully and Innisfail area as well as increasing the times in Cairns and Atherton. I am still providing all the usual services at all of my locations including Pact Med Antifungal treatment..which is much like laser treatment, only easier, cheaper and more effective! 4-5 treatments and the nail grows out with normal nail tissue. I bring all of my equipment with me wherever i travel, so if you need toenail treatment, ingrown surgery, orthotics or insoles for your sore feet, wart or corn treatment or shoe supply and/or advice, i am never far away for your complete foot care needs!

Dr. Steve Lynch ~ Podiatrist at INSTEP PODIATRY has acquired the latest in German technology to treat fungal nail infections. The Pact-Med uses photodynamic light to destroy the dermatophytes, yeast and other fungus in conjunction with a blue gel. The gel helps absorb the light which is toxic to the fungus. Fungus hates any type of light but the wavelength used by the Pact Med system uses a wavelength that fungus finds particularly toxic.

Treatment is 100% safe and more effective than any other therapy including oral medications and laser therapy. Unlike medications and laser this therapy is safe and does not cause any discomfort. Treatment is 3 times in 1 week and a follow up in 4 weeks. Dr. Lynch likes to see everyone 3 months later to ensure the new nail growth is fungal free. Occasionally the treatment is done again at this appointment.

YES! if you are in a private health fund with ‘extras’ or ancillary benefits, Podiatry is usually covered. Give us a call on 1300467837 for items numbers so you can call your health fund and that way no surprises when you claim on the spot at our office!