Health Care Professions Council Ch08703
Archways Podiatrist Louise Stores is the owner/ proprietor of Archways Podiatry, also member of the Royal College of Podiatry and fully CRB checked, and has 36 years in the NHS experience.
Louise is a keen hiker. Her Marple clinic is so close to the Peak District she goes there regularly and walks around all her favourite spots such as Lantern Pike , Cown Edge and Coombes Edge starting from Rowarth. Louise catches the train from Marple to venture a bit further into Edale, Hope Valley, Hathersage, Grindleford on the train to complete circular walks usually once a week.
Louise left the NHS in 2020 after 36 years to develop her own clinic in Podiatry Clinic in Marple, using all her expertise to provide the following treatments.
- Specialist care for patients with foot and ankle pain in conditions such as arthritis, including rheumatoid, fibromyalgia, heel pain, plantar fasciitis, ball of the foot pain ( metatarsalgia) big toe joint pain (hallux limitus) and bunions.
- Biomechanical Assessment :- This involves an examination of the lower limb function, looking at their structure, alignment, strengths and weaknesses , checking for any abnormalities that may be causing you pain or discomfort, which may be having an impact to your day-to-day life.
- Paediatric podiatry treating many common conditions that affect growing children including gait anomalies, developmental flat foot, foot pain, knee and hip pain.
- Fabricating semi-bespoke orthotics on site, tailored to your needs, using over 35 years experience in orthotic/ insole provision.
- Routine podiatry treatments such as Corns, callus, cracked heels, blisters, foot odour, sweaty feet, hard dry scaly skin conditions, thickened toe nails, ingrowing toe nails.
- Lacuna Method which is a safe and simple effective treatment of fungal nail infections. Fungal nails are the most difficult to treat because the active infection is beneath the nail plate and most treatments do not penetrate directly to the infection or are not an actual anti-fungal medicament.
- Fungal Nail Testing, taking nail clippings and sent off directly to the microbiology laboratory for the results, for the best evidence based treatments.
- Louise being a keen hiker, living so close to the Peak District, providing walking tips on footwear, socks, prevention of walking injuries and foot pain.
- Louise quotes " I absolutely love my job and enjoy being able to enable patients to become pain free and lead active independent lives " "I love hiking in the peak district and it is my aim to keep my hiking patients mobile and pain free to enjoy the outdoors as much as possible "