Motion Analysis

During the assessment your biomechanics in motion are analysed using highly effective gait analysis software, using a treadmill pressure plate technology to watch your unique walking, and running pattern. The digital camera uses freeze-frame analysis of specific points in the gait cycle.

Your podiatrists will then analyse the:

• Degree of supination of the foot at contact,

• The degree of pronation during stance,

• The timing of pronation and the degree of re-supination at toe off.

This information is important in defining the causes of injury. These causes are typically a combination of factors, including poor flexibility, strength, and the misalignment of the foot or lower leg. Once your podiatrist examines the information gained from the foot biomechanical assessment, they will be able to design a treatment plan to treat your unique injury. Your treatment plan may include:

Pressure Plate Technology | Pressure Mapping

At Sky Podiatry, we utilise state-of-the-art Sensor Medica pressure plate technology when undergoing biomechanical assessments. This technology focuses on biomechanical analysis and relies on a variety of tools, like force plates, motion capture, EMG systems, and pressure measurement to gather objective information during assessments. This technology also provides us with the ability to segments views by foot, therefore, furthering the analysis into foot function, balance, sway and more.

Orthotic Therapy: Orthotics are individually designed custom innersoles for your shoes that can assist help to correct abnormal foot and leg biomechanics to reduce strain and loaded on affected areas, and to correct posture. Following a biomechanical assessment at Sky Podiatry, we use our state-of-the-art technology to take a 3D digital scan of your feet from which we prescribe and manufacture orthotics to fit perfectly to your feet.

Strengthening and Conditioning: To strengthen and condition the foot muscles, your podiatrist will come but with a plan to heal the muscles through consistent loading. We do this by performing strengthening exercises and do the same exercise over and over again in a controlled way, to teach the body that it is stronger than what is perceives itself to be, and that this continued strain applied will cause the body to adapt. The body will then realise that the work is not going away and that the tissue will begin to strengthen, and the body will start to repair.

Adjunctive Therapies: We offer education and onward referral for adjunctive treatments including:

• Dry needling

• Shock-wave therapy

• Corticosteroid’s injections

• Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections

It is important to note that these adjunctive therapies all provide short-term relief from foot pain, and that we aim to get the core down pact, and then we can add in these additional treatments to improve the speed of recovery.