Suffering From Recurring Ingrown Toenails? You're Not Alone

Ingrown toenails occur when the edges of the nails grow into the surrounding skin, leading to pain, swelling, and redness. 

Ingrown toenails can severely impact foot health. Left untreated, they lead to infection, swelling, and intense pain, hindering daily activities. Chronic cases risk recurring infections, leading to more severe complications. Prolonged neglect can even result in bone infection or tissue damage, requiring more invasive treatments.

Initial treatment aims to relieve pain and clear infection or inflammation. If not infected, your podiatrist may trim the ingrown nail edge painlessly. For severe or recurring cases, a partial nail avulsion with matrix phenolisation offers a lasting solution. It's painless with a quick recovery, enabling a swift return to work.

Our SOLUTION for happy toes and toenails...

Pioneer Podiatry, Mackay's leading Specialist Ingrowing Toenail clinic, is here for you. Our expert podiatrists specialize in resolving the agony of ingrown toenails. Just as a dentist cares for a sore tooth, our clinic is your dedicated destination for treating painful ingrown nails. We're trusted by General Practitioners, receiving daily referrals for expert resolution.

Initial treatment for ingrown toenails focuses on pain relief, infection clearance, and reducing inflammation. If the toe isn't infected, your podiatrist may painlessly trim the ingrown nail edge. In infected cases, partial removal of the edge or the entire nail may be necessary.

For severe or recurrent cases, a procedure known as partial nail avulsion with matrix phenolisation offers a permanent solution. This painless procedure, performed under local anesthesia, removes the problematic nail edge and sterilizes the nail bed. Recovery is swift, allowing most individuals to resume work the following day, provided they wear open-toed shoes for a few days.

This procedure ensures a lasting fix for chronic ingrown nails, offering relief from recurrent discomfort. At Pioneer Podiatry, our focus is on providing comprehensive solutions to prevent recurring issues, ensuring quick recovery and long-term foot health.

How Does Shockwave Therapy Help Heal Sports And Overuse Injuries?

The shockwaves are abrupt, high-amplitude pulses of mechanical energy, similar to sound waves, generated by an electromagnetic coil. Similar technology using focused higher energies is used to break up kidney and gallstones, and is termed lithotripsy. “Extracorporeal” means that the shockwaves are generated externally to the body and transmitted from a pad through the skin.

Shockwave therapy is thought to work by inducing microtrauma to the tissue that is injured. This microtrauma initiates a healing response by the body. This healing response causes blood vessel formation and increases the delivery of nutrients to the affected areas. It stimulates the body’s own repair process and can relieve the symptoms of common conditions such as plantar fasciitis and numerous tendon pathologies.

Conditions we treat with Shockwave

• Plantar fasciitis/ fasciopathy

• Plantar heel pain syndrome

• Heel spurs

• Achilles tendinopathy

• Insertional Achilles 

• Posterior tibial tendinopathy

Most patients feel results right away and need only two or three treatments over six to 12 weeks for complete healing and lasting symptom resolution. The beauty of ESWT is that if it is going to work, it likely will start working immediately after the first treatment. So, if you don’t start seeing results right away, we can investigate other potential causes of your symptoms.

It is not uncommon to feel a bit sore afterward and have some bruising at the treatment area. After the procedure, it is best to avoid anti-inflammatory medications, such as Advil because stimulating the inflammation cascade is part of the healing process activated by ESWT. Other than that, you can go about your normal activities, generally including exercise if you feel up to it.

How Can Pioneer Podiatry Effectively Treat Painful Stubborn Plantar Warts For Good?

Verruca plantaris, or plantar warts, is a viral infection caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The most common causes of transmission of plantar warts are due to barefoot walking in high-risk areas such as communal showers, locker rooms, and/or indoor swimming pools. Plantar warts typically present as small calloused areas with circular black dots on the surface of your skin. These black dots represent the capillaries or blood source supplying the wart underneath your skin.

Prevention:

Some simple things you can do to reduce your risk of getting plantar warts is to wear shower shoes or sandals in public areas such as showers, pools, and locker rooms. It is important to clean and dry your feet after exercising. Also, it’s a good idea to change out of your running sneakers to casual sneakers after a run if possible. It is also highly recommended to never run barefoot.

WORLD-CLASS TREATMENT 
for stubborn Plantar Warts -
now available here in Mackay! 

Plantar warts are unfortunately highly resistant to popular treatments such as cryotherapy or salicylic acid.

So it’s time to say goodbye to frustrating and ineffective treatments, and hello to Australia’s most effective wart treatment with Swift Microwave Therapy, a breakthrough treatment for plantar warts!

Trust the Podiatry Experts!

At Pioneer Podiatry, our team of highly skilled, knowledgeable, and qualified podiatrists has the professional capabilities and years of experience required for assessing and treating practically any lower limb conditions, including specific foot health concerns like plantar warts.

Not only are our staff known for being friendly and efficient, but our management team has ensured that our podiatrists have access to only the very best and latest equipment in the industry. That way our patients are guaranteed to be provided with the highest quality of care. 

So to uphold this standard, we are now able to offer our patients the most revolutionary medical microwave technology that has proven to be an effective treatment for the complete removal of warts.