Funky foot facts

  • By 12, a child’s foot is about 90 per cent of its adult length.
  • Cigarette smoking is the biggest cause of Peripheral Vascular Disease. PVD often leads to pain on walking, ulceration, infection and in severe cases - gangrene and possible amputation.
  • Foot disorders in the elderly are extremely common and are the cause of much pain and disability, and consequent loss of mobility and independence.
  • Around 40 per cent of Kiwis will experience some form of foot problems in their lifetime.
  • The first foot coverings were probably animal skins, which Stone Age peoples in northern Europe and Asia tied around their ankles in cold weather.
  • In a pair of feet there are 250,000 sweat glands that produces approximately 500ml of perspiration daily.
  • It’s rare that two feet are exactly the same; one of them is often larger than the other.
  • When walking, your heel lifts off the ground and it forces the toes to carry one half of your body weight.
  • A quarter of all the body’s bones are in the feet (There are 52 bones in a pair of feet).
  • The average child will take its first steps around 13-17 months - but 10-18 months falls within the “normal” range.
  • A quarter of all the body’s bones are in the feet. (There are 52 bones in a pair of feet).
  • The average person will walk around 128,000kms in a life time or 3 times around the earth.
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Masterton Foot Clinic Team

Podiatry Team

Adam Philps

Adam Philps, Podiatrist, Masterton Foot Clinic

 

Since completing my training 1999, I've worked as a podiatrist in Wellington, Australia, and currently Wairarapa and Lower Hutt. My special interest is in the area of biomechanics. This is a fancy term for the study of human movement.

 

I spend a great deal of time with people with arthritis, birth variations such as clubfoot, and common problems such as heel pain. Working closely with my Orthopedic surgeon colleagues, I manufacture orthoses, modify shoes and offer advise to help rehabilitate or improve the quality of life for my patients.

Reception Team

Dale Garrity

Dale Garrity, Masterton Foot Clinic

 

 

Dale is our wonderful office manager. She works full time, so there’s a strong chance she’ll be the one answering your call when you next phone in!

 

Dale is also our trained Arcopedico shoe fitter. She’ll see to it that the shoes you buy are the most comfortable you’ve every worn. If you need a shoe stretched, she even arrange that too.

La Donna Stancliffe-Deans

La Donna Stancliffe-Deans, Podiatrist, Masterton Foot Clinic

 

 

Our most experienced clinical team member, La Donna is UK trained, BSC (Hons) 1992. She has passionately managed her own clinics overseas and has a special interest in preventative and palliative foot care.

Orthotics Lab

Jim Philps

Jim Philps, custom made orthotics for shoes, MastertonAuthor of 'The Functional Foot Orthosis' (Churchill Livingstone 1995) and London trained Podiatrist, Jim immigrated to NZ to teach at the School of Podiatry. This was a role he had for 13 years, until going into private practice in the early 1990's. Since 1995 Jim has been working almost exclusively manufacturing foot orthoses.

Jim has a non clinical role at Philps Podiatry, offering advise, as well as assistance in the manufacture of orthoses.