The Rehab Podiatrist

The Rehab Podiatrist Professional education for Podiatrists and AHPs.

18/11/2025

Struggling to calm down 1st MTPJ pain?

Want something quick and easy to add to your tool belt when dealing with big toe joint issues?

Try this taping technique.

While it doesn’t take pressure directly off the sesamoids for a lot of the gait cycle, it can be really useful to add alongside shoe padding in sesamoiditis as it will limit 1st MTPJ flexion, toe off and therefore pressure on the sesamoids.

Sprains can be more complex than ‘just an ankle injury’.Here’s a classic example!
10/11/2025

Sprains can be more complex than ‘just an ankle injury’.

Here’s a classic example!

You don’t see papers like this everyday!A must read!
28/10/2025

You don’t see papers like this everyday!

A must read!

20/10/2025

Not everything needs to change our direct treatment plan.

Of we’re managing the whole person, a lot of the time it’s about identifying other problems/barriers that are impacting someone’s life, that may also be contributing to why their foot/ankle pain may be occurring.

Or more likely, why the pain is so impactful / not being able to be managed well by the patient in the first place.

14/10/2025

Foot & Ankle Tendons Workshop
November 22nd
Sydney, Australia

Tickets - Link in bio!

A full day covering what to do in the clinic when assessing and managing foot and ankle tendons! Including:

* How to nail a subjective history,
* What does a thorough assessment look like,
* What to look for in a walking and running gait assessment
* Differentiating between common diagnoses
* What to look for in footwear
* How to prescribe effective foot orthoses
* What exercises to prescribe, how to progress them and why they help

We finish the day with a large roundtable discussion, looking at real case studies and opening the floor to questions about how to implement anything they’ve learnt into clinical practice.

This could be appointment times/planning, billing related, communicating with coaches. Nothing is off limits!

                       

A great example of when imaging really helps.Glad I trusted my gut that it wasn’t typical and ordered the MRI.While the ...
13/10/2025

A great example of when imaging really helps.

Glad I trusted my gut that it wasn’t typical and ordered the MRI.

While the initial management (orthotics and footwear) isn’t too different for what you could do for fat pad/plantar fascia pain, being able to explain to the patient why it has persisted, set expectations that it could take a while to settle, why shockwave wouldn’t be helpful and have a plan for if it doesn’t settle with this plan was invaluable!

03/10/2025

Do you get nervous seeing patients?

Do you feel like there’s a really high expectation on you to get things right?

Amongst all the foot & ankle rehab discussions, this was something that came up right at the end of a recent workshop which I think was worthwhile sharing.

Too often as clinicians we can slip into the mindset that we can control our patient outcomes.

That we’re suddenly dealing with a machine we’re able to accurately, analyse, diagnose and fix. That not doing that well means we haven’t done our job properly.

That’s just not the case.

We deal with people, who’re highly individual, with unique presentations and inconsistent responses to treatment.

If we’re wrapping our worth as a practitioner in outcomes we don’t have control over, we’re on a one way trip to lower self esteem and burnout.

So instead (and not saying this is easy), my focus is on turning up every day and doing the best I can in each situation. Because that’s what I can control.

It’s not as glamorous as selling a magical technique to make all your patients better. But it’s simple, sustainable and ultimately true.

Thanks to .painspecialist

This is a big part of the reason why I became The Rehab Podiatrist and what I teach as a foundation in my course.Biomech...
24/09/2025

This is a big part of the reason why I became The Rehab Podiatrist and what I teach as a foundation in my course.

Biomechanics is important, because it determines the load on the tissue.

But what determines injury and at the core of what we do is assessing, restoring and building tissue capacity.

Most biomechanical based interventions are designed to temporarily reduce load on a tissue, in order to do rehab to build tissue capacity.

Yet so many models of assessment (especially in Podiatry) are built around assessing biomechanics and therefore load on a tissue?

Next Workshop:📍Location: Thebarton, Adelaide📅 13-14 September, 2025$750 for two days of jam packed case studies, demonst...
01/09/2025

Next Workshop:
📍Location: Thebarton, Adelaide
📅 13-14 September, 2025

$750 for two days of jam packed case studies, demonstrations and fun with me and

Link in bio -> for more information and booking!

Waitlist / Email Sign-up for future dates/locations

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Super excited to announce this new workshop!

This is two days where we breakdown how to diagnose, manage and rehabilitate all the common (and less common) foot & ankle conditions, from when someone steps through the door to being back on the pitch.

After this course you’ll be able to:

🦶Clearly differentiate between different foot and ankle conditions
🗣️ Confidently craft, communicate and set expectations for your treatment plan
🩻 Reduce your anxiety by knowing what imaging to order and when
🏋️‍♀️ Elevate your exercise prescription beyond calf raises and bands
📅 Know how to implement this into practice including planning, rebooking and billing.
📕 Easily navigate your consults with a range of post-course clinical frameworks and cheatsheets

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It’s designed from the ground up to be implemented into clinical practice with:

👨‍⚕️All conditions taught through case studies based on real people we’ve seen in the clinic
👍Practical demonstrations, showing exactly what we do and why
📖 Cheatsheets and post-course resources to nail implementation
📞 Post-course zoom calls to follow-up on questions AFTER you’ve been apply to practice!

There’s even more to announce soon, with some partners coming on board to make it even easier to take it back to your clinic!

Really appreciate everyone and their brands , and for supporting the workshop.A group of people passionate about prov...
29/08/2025

Really appreciate everyone and their brands , and for supporting the workshop.

A group of people passionate about providing and facilitating the best CPD.

They’re also my go to for custom foot orthotics. Not that we speak about that much at all in the workshop.

28/08/2025

⚖️ Assessing static balance ⚖️

Really easy to do with the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS)

Originally designed for assessing concussion and mild traumatic brain injuries, it’s easy and repeatable test structure makes it great for assessing balance.

In the foot & ankle it can be useful for conditions/situations such as:
- Lateral ankle sprains
- Chronic ankle instability
- Progressive Collapsing Foot Deformity (PCFD)
- Post traumatic injury
- Long term injury
- Post immobilisation
- Elderly and deconditioned
- When significant strength deficits exist

Want to learn more about balance testing and rehab exercises?

Unsure how to take your patients from this to jumping, landing and hopping drills?

Join my workshop, Foot & Ankle, Research to Rehab.

Link in bio

Looking for supporters for the workshop was as easy. I just had to look at all the products I use on a day to day basis ...
18/08/2025

Looking for supporters for the workshop was as easy. I just had to look at all the products I use on a day to day basis and would highly recommend to anyone prescribing foot and ankle rehab.

was up at the top of the list!

has created a stellar line-up of products that solve so many foot and ankle rehab problems.

Excited to show everyone how they fit seamlessly into my practice

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