Routine Foot Care

What is Routine Foot Care?

Once a luxury, now common place, Routine Foot Care includes:

  • Removal of callus

  • Removal of corns

  • Toe nail debridement, trimming and shaping

  • Infection control

  • Foot Massage

  • Application of emollient

  • Checking for foot issues or concerns with attendance to small one

  • Education in footcare

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In the case of chronic diseases, like diabetes, or special medical conditions, routine foot care is an essential preventive maintenance strategy.

What is nail *debridement?  Let’s start with what it is not. Simple trimming of the nails by cutting or grinding is not a form of debridement. Buffing the surface or the edges of manually trimmed, mycotic (fungal) toenails is not debridement either. As people age the toe nails become thicker and coarse and grow more rapidly. In fact the nails are often too hard and thick to actually cut properly and shapely, at home with scissors.

Nail debridement is the significant reduction in the thickness, coarseness and length of the toe nail.

Why have it?

  • Our feet take a hammering! With every step ‘ . . . and we take a lot each day. . . the full impact of our body’s weight is absorbed by our feet. Now factor into this, all the other things we do with them and do to them. We squeeze them into ill-fitting shoes, smother them in synthetic apparel, work them for long hours, play in them, pound them incessantly at sport, injure them; sunburn them, get them infected and expect them (yes, “expect them”) to bounce right back. Our feet take quite a daily hammering.

  • Essentially we take them for granted. We expect them to keep on keeping on, all through our lives. We want to be mobile; we definitely want to be pain free. Like teeth, eyes and ears, our feet are a part of our anatomy that will also benefit from regular service checks and footcare.

  • Prevention is better than cure. Routine Footcare is a good way to ensure our feet are not going to let us down in the future. Your podiatrist can keep you one step ahead of issues and can be hugely responsive when things look as though they could go wrong.

 

Take the first step!