Growing Pain Explained – What’s Going On?Blog / Optimise Health Growing Pain Explained – What’s Going On? Winter is here! This means that football, soccer and netball seasons are well under way. Each year it feels like clockwork with kids of all ages flooding into the clinic, particularly between the ages of 10 and 15 years, with the same complaint: Growing pains at their heels. […] Growing Pain Explained – What’s Going On? Read More »
Cheap Sneakers, Football Boots and Your Kids Heel Pain – What’s the Link? An Insight from One of Our Senior Podiatrists, SamBlog / Optimise Health Cheap Sneakers, Football Boots and Your Kids Heel Pain – What’s the Link? An Insight from One of Our Senior Podiatrists, Sam One of the things that I find on a regular basis is children presenting with calcaneal traction apophysitis – AKA Severs Disease – wearing ‘cheap sneakers’. As a parent of three boys and Cheap Sneakers, Football Boots and Your Kids Heel Pain – What’s the Link? An Insight from One of Our Senior Podiatrists, Sam Read More »
Getting to Know Daniel LauBlog / Optimise Health Getting to Know Daniel Lau I have been in Toowoomba/Westbrook for 18 years so no issues with settling in.I chose podiatry because I completed a biomedical science degree but there wasn’t much funding in sciences and I wasn’t interested in researching in laboratories so I immediately went into podiatry. Podiatry has a stable work environment Getting to Know Daniel Lau Read More »
The Dangers of ‘W’ Sitting for KidsBlog / Optimise Health The Dangers of ‘W’ Sitting for Kids You may have heard that sitting with your legs and feet in a ‘W’ position is bad – but do you know why? What is ‘W’ sitting? W-sitting is the position where the: If you look front on when your little one is sitting like this, their legs The Dangers of ‘W’ Sitting for Kids Read More »
