We have opened a brand new clinic in North Leeds. It has taken a lot of hard work and the help of many friends but our new home, in the Far Headingley/ West Park area, already feels like home. We have moved from Water Lane to 275b Otley Road – slightly confusing as...
A calm, patient-friendly guide to shockwave therapy (ESWT): what it is, what it treats in foot and lower-limb care, what a session feels like, how many you might need, and who it may not suit.
We're pleased to announce that diagnostic ultrasound scans and ultrasound-guided injections for foot and ankle conditions are now available across our clinics, delivered by Dan Broadley. Dan brings substantial experience in podiatric ultrasound assessment and in...
Oli Williamson is a Physiotherapist who has worked at the highest level of Athletics, with team GB via the British Olympic Association and exclusively with Olympic athletes across the London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024 for the EIS (English Institute of...
Helen Sheard, who sings with Bob in Commoners Choir, organises talks for the Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team. I'd offered to give them a talk on walking and last month she took me up on it. Holme Valley MRT is a volunteer-based search and rescue team based in...
A common assumption — among patients, and sometimes elsewhere — is that an arthritic ankle is essentially a surgical problem. In some cases it is. In many others, conservative biomechanical care can make a real difference to day-to-day pain and function, even when the...
Elaine McLaughlin is a well-known podiatrist in Derry who's just celebrated thirty years in business — a serious achievement. She trained alongside Lee in the early 1990s and we've stayed in touch ever since. Her practice now has a team of eight podiatrists, and she...
A short note from earlier in the summer. Bob, Lee and Simon spent a few days at Glastonbury 2023 as part of the FMS Podiatry volunteer team, providing on-site foot care to festival-goers. Twelve podiatrists were on the team across the festival weekend. Between us we...
When Andy Horwood left Leeds in 2016 to live near Glasgow, Lee Short and I took over his practice and started Podiatry Clinics (Yorkshire) Ltd. He trusted us to look after his patients, which we took as a real compliment. Since then he's been working on a textbook —...