How to Refer
Send your usual referral letter to the clinic by secure messaging, email or post, or call the rooms to discuss the case first. If you would like the rooms to know a patient is on the way before the letter arrives, use the notification form. A formal referral is not required for a patient to be seen, but it is welcome, and it means the report comes back to you.
What We Can Take On
The clinic exists to be the place a complex foot does not have to leave. Assessment, orthoses, injection therapy, shockwave therapy and surgery all happen at Corrie Road, so a referred patient is not passed on again mid-plan.
- Surgical opinions on bunions, hammer toes, Morton’s neuroma, Haglund’s deformity and forefoot deformity.
- Reconstructive forefoot and rearfoot surgery, including bunion, hammer toe and flatfoot correction.
- Nail surgery under local anaesthetic, on site.
- Injection therapy, including corticosteroid injections under guided ultrasound.
- Shockwave therapy for heel pain and chronic tendinopathy.
- Biomechanical assessment, gait analysis and prescription orthoses from a 3D scan.
- Diabetic foot assessment, with reporting back to the GP, endocrinologist and diabetes educator.
- Second opinions where conservative care has stalled.
Reporting Back
We welcome referrals from GPs, sports physicians, physiotherapists, orthopaedic surgeons, podiatry colleagues and allied health colleagues across the Northern Beaches and the entire North Shore. Detailed case reports provided back on request.
Case Discussions
For a case you are not sure warrants a referral, a phone conversation is often quicker than a letter. Call the clinic on (02) 9977 0047 and ask for a case discussion, and the rooms will arrange a time for you to speak to the practitioner directly rather than putting you through mid-consultation.
Urgent Referrals
For an acute presentation, particularly a diabetic foot with a break in the skin, redness, swelling, warmth or discharge, call the clinic rather than sending a letter. Manly Foot Clinic is not an emergency service, and a patient with a systemically unwell presentation or a limb-threatening problem should go to an emergency department.