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Corns, calluses, fissures & warts

Keratotic disorders are removed comfortably with specialist instruments, so you can walk without pain.
Keratotic disorders

Why hard skin forms

We walk about three times around the world in a lifetime. Foot bone changes and footwear put stress on the skin, which responds by building up corns, calluses and cracks (fissures).

Close-ups of a callus, a corn and a plantar wart on the sole of the foot
How to tell them apart: a callus, a corn and a plantar wart.

Compressional

Body weight and the ground push toward each other.

Shearing

One layer of tissue slides over another, like the foot sliding in a shoe.

Tensile

Skin is pulled apart until it stretches or cracks.

Torsional

Twisting motion causing cracks, corns and calluses.

Treatment & maintenance

Your Reg. PodOrtho® Foot Specialist removes excess hard skin and the centre (nucleus) of a corn to relieve pain. Most clients book maintenance every 2–8 weeks. We also recommend footwear, orthotics or soft off-loading devices to stop it coming back.

Cracked heel before and after treatment
Cracked heels (fissures) before and after treatment.

Home care: ask about Footlogix Double Defense and Footlogix Cracked Skin Mousse, available at the clinic.

Warts

Warts are benign viral growths, usually on the bottom of the foot. They can be painful and are contagious, so it is best to treat them early to protect family members and others at gyms and pools.

We use thermal laser to vaporise the virus and seal the small blood vessels that feed the wart, then gently debride the excess tissue. Most warts need three or more treatments depending on size and depth.

Foot specialist using a laser to treat plantar warts on the sole of a client's foot
Laser wart treatment at our clinic.
Fees
New client assessment$95.00
Maintenance care$82.00
Seniors$79.00
Wart treatment$95–$120
Most private benefit plans cover care by a Registered PodOrtho® Foot Specialist / nurse. Check with your provider.

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Call 705-812-2272 ext. 1 or book online.
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