General Podiatry / Chiropody

The aim of general podiatry and foot care is to help you improve or manage your over-all foot condition and keep your feet healthy. We can help and advice with all your common foot conditions including toenail cutting, nail pathologies including thick and fungal nails, painful Corns and Callus, Athletes foot, Blisters, Chilblains, and Verruca’s, foot infections. There are many more foot problems that we treat.  Please ask the podiatrist for more information.   

Routine podiatry treatment

Your routine podiatry treatment is designed to keep your feet in tip top condition following your initial appointment.

Treatments usually include:

    • Trimming toenails, as well as clearing any build-up from under and around the nail itself and filing the nails smooth.
    • Thickened nails are reduced or thinned
    • Corns are removed (Enucleated)
    • Rough and hard (callused) skin removed/reduced.
    • The treatment is finished with application of luxury foot cream.

Your routine podiatry appointment usually takes 30 minutes.

Your initial consultation is an extended appointment where a full foot health assessment is done.  Your podiatrist will ask questions about your general health, foot health and any previous foot related problems. Your podiatrist will take a medical history including any medication you are taking so that we have a good understanding of your medical problems or medications. This is done to provide safe and effective treatments.  Your podiatrist will offer you appropriate advice and guidance to help develop your individual treatment plan. 

Following this your podiatrist will carry out a visual assessment of both your feet. They will look for Skin problems, nail problems, the shape and structure of your foot and check your footwear. Further assessments will be done such as vascular assessment, diabetic assessment or dermoscopy where applicable, depending on your medical history.

Once we have a good understanding of your concerns, we will then discuss your options and provide the treatment.  Most common foot complaints can be treated on the same day.  

Your podiatrist will begin by asking what your main concern or problem is, if you have had any changes in your medical history or medications since your last appointment.  

They will then carry out a thorough visual check of both your feet.  Your podiatrist will explain what they are treating. 

Using sterile instrument, we will then provide the appropriate treatment.  

Once your treatment is complete your skin is cleansed using a professional advanced formula cleanser that cools and calms the skin followed by a luxurious foot cream to hydrate.   

Your podiatrist will offer information on how to look after your feet at home, discuss your treatment plan and how to keep your feet healthy, preventing problems in the future.

As a Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered podiatrist, we are professionally and legally required to ensure that we have a full medical history before starting any treatment.   (Any information given to us is treated with the strictest of confidence and in accordance with Health and care professions council, The Royal college of podiatry and GDPR guidelines)