Painful?
You may want to be more specific with the question.
As a profession, podiatry is more mentally draining than physically painful. I mean you may have to wear lead in the OR for extended periods, but we are not working construction jobs or anything.
As for the patients pain is relative you could have a patient come in with a fracture expressing only moderate pain while another individual may present with an ingrown nail and rate it a 10/10 on a VAS.