Medical Conditions Potentially Requiring Pedorthic Treatment
The following is a non-exhaustive list of medical conditions potentially requiring pedorthic treatment by a Canadian Certified Pedorthist:
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| Accessory navicular |
| Achilles tendinitis (Achilles tendinopathy/Achilles tendinosis) |
| Amputations: hallux, digital, transmetatarsal, Syme, Chopart |
| Ankle fusion (ankle subtalar arthrodesis) |
| Ankle impingement syndrome |
| Ankle ligament sprains |
| Ankle subtalar arthrodesis (ankle fusion) |
| Balance impairment |
| Bunion |
| Bunionette (tailor’s bunion) |
| Calcaneal apophysitis (Sever’s disease/syndrome) |
| Calcaneal exostosis/pump bump |
| Calcaneal fat pad contusion/rupture |
| Calcaneal spurs |
| Callus (intractable plantar keratosis [hard corn]) |
| Cerebral palsy |
| Charcot foot |
| Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease |
| Chondromalacia patella |
| Chronic ankle instability |
| Clubfoot (congenital talipes equinovarus, CTEV) |
| Compartment syndrome |
| Complex regional pain syndrome (RSD) |
| Congenital talipes equinovarus (clubfoot, CTEV) |
| Congenital flat foot (calcaneovalgus) (rigid flat foot) |
| Crossover toe deformity |
| Cuboid syndrome |
| Degenerative disc disease |
| Diabetes mellitus |
| Diabetic foot ulcer |
| Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
| Dupuytren’s contracture |
| Equinus |
| Extensor tendinitis/tendinopathy |
| Fat pad atrophy |
| Fibromyalgia |
| Fibularis muscle strain |
| First metatarsal – medial cuneiform dorsal exostosis |
| Flexor tenosynovitis |
| Fracture: calcaneus, fifth metatarsal avulsion, and Jones |
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| Freiberg’s disease/infraction |
| Functional hallux limitus |
| Ganglion cyst |
| Greater trochanteric bursitis |
| Gluteus maximus tendinitis/tendinopathy |
| Gouty arthritis |
| Haglund’s deformity (pump bump, Bauer bump, calcaneal exostosis) |
| Hallux abducto valgus |
| Hallux adductus deformities |
| Hallux limitus |
| Hallux rigidus |
| Hallux valgus |
| Hammer toe, claw toe, mallet toe |
| Iliotibial band friction syndrome (ITBFS) |
| Infrapatellar bursitis |
| Interdigital (soft) corns |
| Interdigital neuritis |
| Intermetatarsal neuroma |
| Intractable plantar keratosis (hard corn) (callus) |
| Kohler’s disease |
| Legg-Calve-Perthes disease |
| Leg length discrepancy (LLD) |
| Lisfranc injury |
| Lower back pain |
| Medial calcaneal nerve entrapment (tarsal tunnel syndrome) |
| Medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS, shin splints) |
| Metatarsalgia |
| Metatarsus adductus |
| Meniscal tear |
| Morton’s (foot) syndrome |
| Morton’s neuroma |
| MTP joint capsulitis |
| MTP joint synovitis |
| Multiple sclerosis |
| Osgood–Schlatter disease |
| Osteoarthritis – foot and ankle |
| Osteoarthritis – hip |
| Osteoarthritis – knee |
| Osteochondrosis |
| Parkinson’s disease |
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| Patellar instability/subluxations |
| Patellar tendinopathy/tendinitis |
| Patellofemoral pain syndrome |
| Peripheral neuropathy |
| Peroneal muscle strain |
| Peroneal tendinitis/tendinopathy |
| Peroneal syndrome |
| Peroneal tendon subluxation |
| Pes cavus |
| Pes planus |
| Piriformis syndrome |
| Plantar fasciitis/fasciopathy/fasciosis |
| Plantar fibromatosis |
| Plantar plate tear/dysfunction/turf toe |
| Plantar wart |
| Posterior tibial tendon dysfunction/tibialis posterior tendinitis/tendinopathy/dysfunction |
| Post-poliomyelitis syndrome |
| RSD (complex regional pain syndrome) |
| Psoriatic arthritis |
| Retrocalcaneal bursitis (Achilles tendon disorders, heel pain, pump bump, bursitis, winter heel, cucumber heel, high-prow heel, knobby prow-beak deformity, tendo Achilles bursitis, hatchet heel, Albert’s disease) |
| Rheumatoid arthritis |
| Rigid flat foot (congenital flat foot [calcaneovalgus]) |
| Sacroiliac joint dysfunction |
| Scoliosis |
| Sesamoiditis |
| Sever’s disease/syndrome (calcaneal apophysitis) |
| Shin splints |
| Sinus tarsi syndrome/sinus tarsi impingement |
| Stress fractures (metatarsal, cuboid march fracture) |
| Tailor’s bunion (bunionette) |
| Talar dome lesion |
| Tarsal coalition |
| Tarsal tunnel syndrome |
| Tibialis anterior tendinopathy/tenosynovitis |
| Turf toe |
| Vascular impairment |
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