Podiatry for Children is also known as podopaeditrics. The podiatrist can deal with many childhood conditions such as Severs, Osgood Schlatters, growing pains and painful flat feet.

Podopaediatrics is an area of podiatry focussing on the treatment of children and the various afflictions that can affect a young person’s lower limbs. Proper podopaediatrics care is important in the long term because unaddressed structural problems with the feet can worsen overtime, eventually causing severe issues with gait and pain. By correcting early foot deformities many long term chronic mobility issues can be safely and effectively addressed, sparing a great deal of discomfort on the part of the patient, and expense on the part of the NHS.

A number of different foot ailments can affect children from a variety of different backgrounds, these can include structural issues such as flat feet, toe walking and in-toeing or other, more general issues like ingrown toe nails or infections.

if a child develops a foot problem it is better to get it checked out. Regular annual check-ups of children’s feet is something we recommend.

Foot check-ups can encourage children of the importance of foot-health. Podiatrists are able to detect the potential for foot problems early and give you helpful foot care interventional advice. Should any foot problems be detected early treatments can be discussed.

At Horsforth Podiatry Clinic we can give advice and peace of mind on childhood walking patterns to parents, in most cases monitoring and simple insoles is all that is needed.