Children's Foot And Leg Pain
Growing Pains
More Than Just A Great TV Show
Children aren’t just little adults (even when they’re seemingly 13 going on 30!). Their physiology differs from ours, meaning they often require different treatments and assessments than adults.
As children grow day by day, it can be easy for them to develop achy legs, legs that tire easily, and issues with their foot or leg posture. For their legs to mature and develop for efficient gait (walking, running, and jumping), they need to reach certain developmental milestones.
When structural abnormalities interfere with their ability to reach these milestones, recognising and addressing these issues may help to ensure their healthy skeletal growth. The earlier these problems are identified, the larger the opportunity for them to catch up with their peers and chase them around the footy field!

Types Of Children’s Foot And Leg Pain Conditions
Flat Foot And Leg Development

Helping Little Feet And Legs
We offer a wide range of treatment options at Foot and Leg Pain Centre. The specific treatment for your child will depend on various factors, such as where the pain is, the type of pain, and its cause.
Some children may benefit from custom orthotics, while others may simply need footwear advice, foot strengthening, posture and biomechanical assessments, manual rehabilitation, or walking and running technique adjustments.
Through thorough and stress-free fun assessment, we’ll diagnose your child and create a custom treatment plan that helps get them back to their active, happy self!
Why Foot and Leg Pain Centre?
A Team You Can Trust
Dr Angus Chard, PhD, is an internationally recognised leader among his peers– a second-generation podiatrist with extensive clinical experience.
Motivated To Help
The whole team at Foot and Leg Pain Centre is dedicated to helping people, including children of all ages, to reach their goals and reduce their pain.
Evidence-Based Care
In addition to our sunny dispositions and ability to help children feel at ease, we provide all of our treatments with a balance of scientific evidence and clinical experience.
A Note For Medical Referrers
If you are a healthcare practitioner looking to refer a patient to us, we would love to hear from you. We recognise and measure specific developmental milestones in children so that we can follow up and measure them again. This way, we can monitor whether your patients are growing out of conditions such as metatarsus adductus, flat feet, tibial and femoral torsions, and intoed and toe walking positions, to name a few.
Let us help you recognise the urgency for intervention or justification for nature to take its course with our quantified evidence-based approach. We assist in managing chronic conditions in children of all ages and pride ourselves on our experience and dedication to helping children thrive. We are also happy to collaborate with you and receive your patients under the Enhanced Primary Care Plan arrangement. To discuss our approach and expertise, please contact our team today!

Foot And Leg Pain Centre
Questions About Children And Podiatry
Yes, of course we do. But more importantly, we recognise the importance of balancing the evidence with experience. To blindly follow the evidence is a sign of a naive practitioner. Here are references for the information we have provided on this page:
- Alfaro-Santafé, J., et al. (2021). “Effectiveness of Custom-Made Foot Orthoses vs. Heel-Lifts in Children with Calcaneal Apophysitis (Sever’s Disease): A CONSORT-Compliant Randomized Trial.” Children 8(11): 963.
- Bleck, E. E. (1983). “Metatarsus adductus: Classification and relationship to outcomes of treatment.” Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics 3(1): 2-9.
- Chard, B.A., The effect of unsupportive and supportive footwear on children’s multi-segment foot dynamics during gait. 2017. USYD Thesis
- Kothari, A., et al., Are flexible flat feet associated with proximal joint problems in children? Gait and Posture, 2016. 45: p. 204-210.
- Lin, C.-J., et al., Correlating factors and clinical significance of flexible flatfoot in preschool children. Journal of pediatric orthopaedics, 2001. 21(3): p. 378-382.
- Mudge, A. J., et al. (2014). “Normative reference values for lower limb joint range, bone torsion, and alignment in children aged 4-16 years.” Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B 23(1): 15-25.
- Redmond A, Crane Y, Menz H. Normative values for the Foot Posture Index. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research. 2008;1(1):6.
- Staheli, L., et al. (1985). “Lower-extremity rotational problems in children. Normal values to guide management.” J Bone Joint Surg Am 67(1): 39-47.
- Sutherland, D. H. (2001). “The evolution of clinical gait analysis part l: kinesiological EMG.” Gait & Posture 14(1): 61-70.
- Sutherland, D. H. (2002). “The evolution of clinical gait analysis: Part II Kinematics.” Gait & Posture 16(2): 159-179.
- Sutherland, D. H. (2005). “The evolution of clinical gait analysis part III – kinetics and energy assessment.” Gait & Posture 21(4): 447-461.
Book Your Child’s Podiatry Appointment
Whether your child is a toddler or a teenager, foot and leg pain shouldn’t be ignored. At Foot and Leg Pain Centre, we work with children and parents to determine possible causes of foot and leg pain and to address them as quickly as possible.
With a wide range of treatments available and an experienced team of podiatrists utilising an evidence-based approach, we’re the go-to team for children’s podiatry in Sydney. To have us help to restore their physical freedom, book an appointment with us today.