How does Foot Mobilisation Therapy (FMT) help fix your feet? -  Manningham Foot Clinic

 

Foot Mobilisation Therapy (FMT) is a gentle hands-on manual therapy treatment that works naturally and holistically with your body.

Mobilisation and Manipulation therapy has been performed by allied health practitioners for decades. Foot mobilisation therapy can be essential for improving function and relieving foot and leg pain. It works by improving the mobility and congruency of joints in the feet, ankles and legs. This in turn allows muscles to work more efficiently around foot and leg joints.

 

Foot Mobilisation Therapy 

Foot Mobilisation and Manipulation Therapy (FMT) involves a range of manual therapies that work holistically to restore joint mobility and increase strength and flexibility in the foot and ankle. At the Manningham Foot Clinic, Bud Egodagamage will determine if FMT is the right treatment for you and create a short-term and long-term treatment plan to restore the biomechanical health of your feet.

•     Flat feet

•     Excessive pronation

•     High arches

•     Bunions

•     Morton's neuroma

•     Plantar fasciitis

•     Heel spurs

•     Achilles tendonitis

When combined with the right strengthening exercises, FMT can remove the need for surgery and orthotic devices. It can also help correct other foot conditions and ensure your feet are working at their optimum capacity.

All of the conditions listed below can benefit greatly from a few sessions of FMT.

•     Weak ankles

•     Sore ankles

•     Rolling ankles

•     Knee pain

•     Bursitis

•     Shin pain

•     Calf pain

•     Leg length discrepancy

 

‘Everything works best when it’s in the right place’

The old saying goes ‘Everything works best when it’s in the right place’. When your feet are correctly aligned and functioning as nature intended the incredible power of your body’s restoration system can work its magic. This allows you to naturally heal your foot pain problem. In most cases without specialised shoes, orthotic insoles, medication or surgery.

Manningham Foot Clinic Foot Mobilisation Therapy (FMT) is a gentle hands-on manual therapy treatment that works naturally and holistically with your body. It stimulates your body’s ability to repair and restore itself. This helps to reduce pain and inflammation while restoring foot mobility, function and posture. And it treats the source of your pain, rather than just the symptoms of the pain you’re experiencing.

What does your Foot Mobilisation Therapy (FMT) practitioner do in treatment session?

During each appointment at the Foot & Leg Centre, your highly skilled practitioner checks, assesses and, where required, applies a corrective manual therapy treatment to your feet and legs. Every bone, every joint, every tissue in your feet is affected by every treatment you have. No other modality in the health profession addresses foot function as comprehensively and uniquely as Foot Mobilisation Therapy (FMT).

Every Foot Mobilisation Therapy (FMT) treatment is like giving your feet a power boost! The effects can last for days, weeks, even months! Each treatment stretches, strengthens and stabilises your body’s very foundations. Your body’s healing mechanisms get powerfully switch on.

Regular treatment has an accumulative effect.

Your body is able to build on the input it receives each time you have your Foot Mobilisation Therapy (FMT) treatment. The regularity of treatment makes the healing process increase exponentially.

Foot Mobilisation Therapy Balwyn North (FMT) treatment is performed at more frequent intervals and extends out as your mobility improves and you return to normal activity levels. Once the initial treatment has been completed, a maintenance routine of 2-6 visits a year help’s your body to maintain good foot function and posture by being able to cope with everyday stresses of life.