Dominic Salvemini Biomechanical Podiatry

What is Oz-pod Podiatry?
Oz-pod podiatry assesses and treats looking not only at your presenting complaint, but rather your whole body, as a unique functioning biomechanical unit.
This is what makes us different!
Podiatry and “Sports Podiatry” are the specialty of diagnosing, treating and managing, disorders and resultant injuries of the feet and legs.
Feet are examples of complex human engineering, with 52 bones and an intricate network of joints, ligaments and muscles.
Improper structure or function of the foot can result in a wide range of injuries to the legs & feet and throughout the entire musculo-skeletal system.
A detailed understanding of the interaction between each of these structures is needed in order to make an accurate diagnosis of foot and leg pathology.
Oz-pod Protocol
After presentation and establishment of symptoms and concerns, clients are thoroughly examined. Ensuring accurate diagnosis with the greatest levels of treatment quality and problem resolution.
Treatment, Assessment Modalities & Technology

• Biomechanical Assessment and Gait Analysis
• 3D Scanning
• Orthotic Therapy
• Mobilisation – Bony and soft tissue.
• Naked podiatry
• Trigger point therapy
• Dry needling
• Wet Needling – Local Anaesthesia, Prylotherapy, Platelet Rich Plasma
• Postural Solutions
• Laser Therapy
• Ultrasound Therapy
• Rehabilitation – Strength, flexibility and balance retraining.
• Strapping – Traditional and Kinesio
• Fascial and Neural release
• Acute and Chronic injury management
• Walking boots, Splints and other aids
• Surgery and affiliated Podiatric surgeons

Children
Children’s skeletal systems transition through many stages of development. Growing bones not only get bigger, but change shape and orientation. Children’s development should be monitored throughout the developmental stages, not just for the sake of the feet but also for the whole musculo-skeletal make up.
Developing children transition through many stages, physically and physiologically. They can suffer strains, tears, breaks and over use injuries just as an adult. However, children have the added complication that their bones and soft tissue are still developing. Child specific conditions such as Osgood-Schlatter’s, Sever’s and other conditions effecting growth plates due to biomechanical anomalies, can be corrected and controlled with podiatry treatment.
Children’s feet are not simply small adult feet, they have a unique development pattern and function. Unlike teeth and eyes, foot health in kids is often neglected. This can lead to problems not only in the feet, but also the legs, pelvis and back.
Foot problems can also cause social effects. A child with foot problems may walk awkwardly and not be as athletic as they should. In some kids this can lead to them being shy, introverted, and an avoidance of sports and other social functions. In the presence of these problems we work with you and your child to help resolve these issues.
We can help your child if they are experiencing any of the following: Pigeon toed, in toe, out toe, flat foot or if they are not so stable when it comes to walking.
Typical conditions like the aforementioned can be treated with orthotic therapy, exercise based rehabilitation and muscular rehabilitation.
Ladies – Keep Your Heels On!
Love your high heels ??
Stylish, yes! Damaging, check!!
Oz-pod doesn’t expect you to throw away your Louboutins or burn your favourite Jimmy Choos.
No, Oz-pod has an alternative – Foot Mobilisation Therapy.
Foot mobilisation will maintain the normal function of your feet whilst you flaunt those special heels. Whatever your style, you can still function without foot pain!!
Sport, Dance & Snow
Every sport requires the right equipment.
Your legs and feet, critical pieces.
Dont neglect them.
The demands of physical activity can expose you to extreme and unusual forces, with injury risk further exacerbated by poor biomechanical function.
Oz-pod provides leading-edge management of injuries and biomechanics. As well as sport-specific programs designed to maximize your performance, prevent injury, and get you back to the activities
you love.
Oz-pod will tune your sporting foot ware with sport specific, custom prescription orthotics. For example, ski & snow boarding boots, cycling cleats, ballet slippers, athletic spikes etc. Allowing your unique biomechanical structure, optimum performance in your chosen activity.
We treat athletes in sports including
Running, Athletics, AFL, Basketball, Skiing / Snowboarding, Hiking, Cycling, Dance, Mountain Biking, Football, Baseball, Golf, Ultimate Frisbee, Aerobics, Boot Camp, Tennis, Soccer, Hockey, Table Tennis, Badminton, Bowling, Lawn Bowls, Wind Surfing, Gymnastics, Extreme Lacrosse and the list goes on…
Common Conditions
Oz-pod clients include children, sports people and elite athletes through to members of the general community. Typical podiatric problems may be related to improper development, occupation, sport & recreation. They can also come about due to an underlying mechanical fault of that person’s leg or foot. Most often, a combination of all these factors results in podiatric injuries.
Some of the most common problems and injuries treated by podiatrists include:

• Heel pain and spurs (sever’s disease and plantar fasciitis)
• Bunions
• Shin splints
• Achilles pain/tendinopathy
• Ankle injuries – Sprained ankle
• Knee pain and injuries
• Hip, ITB and lower back pain/dysfunction
• Muscular overuse and strains/tears
• Sporting and Postural anomalies
• Knock knees
• Pigeon toed gait
• Bowed legs
• Limping and abnormal walking patterns
• Growing pains
• Aching feet
• Arch pain
• Flat feet and Fallen arches
• High arches
• Clawed toes
• Unusual shoe wear and shoe choice
• Stress fractures
• Bony prominences of the feet
• Metatarsalgia and Sesamoiditis (inflammatory conditions of the forefoot)
• Neuromas (nerve inflammation) and Nerve entrapment in the leg and foot
• Arthritis
• Joint dislocations

Sports podiatry can also ensure optimal mechanical performance for the sportsperson wanting to avoid injury and maximise performance.
About Us
Dominic Salvemini
Dominic specialises in meeting biomechanical problems of the feet and legs with leading-edge capabilities, a high degree of skill and experience and the same focus on long-term results that has earned the trust of thousands of patients and their doctors since 1997.
Member of the Australian Podiatry Association, AAPSM and Sports Medicine Australia, Dominic has been working in podiatric biomechanics since 1997. During that time has been involved with some of Australia’s pioneering biomechanics practices, with exposure to elite and amateur sporting communities, members of the Australian Institute of Sports, children and members of the wider community. Dominic loves enabling the athlete to achieve their highest level of excellence.
Having his own history of injuries, Dominic gains some of his greatest satisfaction in making a difference to the physical development and performance of his clients. Helping them avoid the frustration of injury which he experienced during his formative years is the icing on Dominic’s cake. Dominic has completed further studies in joint mobilisation, local anaesthesia and cortisone use, dry needling and laser therapy. This, in conjunction with his wealth of biomechanics experience allows him to offer a unique solution to your condition. The holistic nature of podiatric biomechanics care provided by Dominic accounts for the many ways in which the feet and lower limbs affect the rest of the body. His special focus on biomechanics, postural solutions and sports podiatry provides a gold standard of care.