Ever wondered what to do with those unwanted soccer and football boots gathering in the cupboard? Eastern Foot Care is proud to team with the Reagan Milstein foundation to collect those unwanted boots and redistribute to less fortunate communities around the world.... Read More

Nick Ryan, Sports Podiatrist Eastern Foot Care B.Pod (Hons), B.App.Sci (Human Movement), A.A.C.P.S.   Disclaimer: the author is certainly not a Collingwood supporter. Despite this Eastern Foot Care embraces football fans from all teams and does not discriminate!   For those of our patients and social media followers who are into Australian Rules Football you will have heard of ... Read More

  Adult Ballet has become a popular trend in the last few years. It is widely advertised with classes from beginners to advanced levels all over Melbourne. People typically develop an interest as they may have had Ballet lessons as a child, have ... Read More

THE ANKLE JOINT The ankle is a hinge joint made up of 3 bones that allows movement up and down and a slight degree rotational movement. The bones that make up the ankle joint are the tibia (shin bone), the fibula (outside/lateral shin bone), and the talus or ankle bone. There are ... Read More

Around two weeks ago news came out that Australian Cricket Coach and former Test Cricketer Darren ‘Boof’ Lehmann had been hospitalised with a blood clot in his leg, commonly known as a DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis).   ‘Boof’ previously developed a DVT post-operatively some years ago, and he is not the first ... Read More

We live in an era where active footwear  is constantly gaining more ground and advancing in technology providing today’s athletes with greater options in footwear choices and shoe adaptations that transcend them to improved performance and increased comfort in active lives.   This week at Eastern Foot Care ... Read More

with Sports and Dance Podiatrist Sarah Bowling, Eastern Foot Care Knox At some stage, most dancers have or will come across an ingrown toenail. The painful, red, hot, swollen, infected skin on the side of the nail that gets worse and worse.   You get ... Read More

 - with Sports and Dance Podiatrist, Sarah Bowling As a Podiatrist we treat a broad variety of foot and lower limb conditions. One area of particular interest for me is the management of dancers and dance-related injuries. I have long been a lover of dance ... Read More

The Sports Podiatrists at Eastern Foot Care are experts at managing sports injuries, including: - Acute fractures from a specific injury - Stress fractures related to overuse/overtraining - High-grade ankle sprains - Chronic overuse tendon injuries Occasionally we will utilise various forms of immobilisation to allow appropriate offloading of injured structures and facilitate healing. The ... Read More