silver tail foot care

Silver Tail Foot Care provides podiatry and foot health care at its clinic in Axminster, with appointment options for new patient assessments, routine clinic care, biomechanics assessments and follow-up care. The practice also offers home visits with a Foot Health Practitioner, and lists emergency home visits with a podiatrist.

The clinic covers general foot care including nail care for toes and fingernails, diabetic foot checks, foot health assessments, fungal and thickened nail reduction, corn and callus removal and protection, cracked heel reduction and future care advice. It also offers Doppler testing, footwear advice and silicone props to help relieve pressure areas.

Ingrown toenails can be managed with conservative treatment, with a surgery option available with the podiatrist. Other nail services include nail reconstruction and Onyfix nail straightening. Verruca care includes Verrutop, Swift microwave treatment, cryotherapy, Faulkners needling and surgical removal, alongside skin surgery for growths, moles and verrucas on the foot. The practice also offers Map my mole checks, Curacorn dermal filler treatment for corns, callus and fat pad atrophy, insoles, foot pain education and treatment, and antibiotics where clinically provided.

Biomechanics work is provided at Silver Tail Foot Care through S.R Foot and Ankle Clinic. The clinicians cover foot, knee and ankle pain, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinopathy, neuromas, bunions, tibialis posterior dysfunction and sports injuries. Services include bio-mechanical assessment, gait analysis, rehabilitation and stretching programmes, strength and conditioning programmes, sports rehabilitation, footwear advice and insole or orthotic prescriptions, including 3D printed options.

The clinical team includes podiatrists and Foot Health Practitioners. Rachael Meecham, the owner, is an HCPC registered podiatrist, fully insured and CRB-checked, with further training in specialised nail surgery and skin surgery on the foot. The wider clinical interests described by the practice include dermatology, biomechanics, sports injuries, lower limb running form, foot and ankle pain, offloading the diabetic foot, rehabilitation, gait analysis and orthoses.