What do Foot Health Practitioners do?
What Do Foot Health Practitioners Do?
Your feet take a lot of strain. They support you in standing, walking, working, to looking after your family. Healthy feet can be the difference between hurting and remaining healthy and pain-free.
Foot practitioners are trained to provide routine foot care, treatments and maintenance to their clients. Our foot care professionals can assess, provide treatment, and make recommendations on improving and maintaining your feet's health.
What Are Foot Health Practitioners?
The primary role of a foot health practitioner is to help people with their foot problems. Our foot health team are not just experienced and knowledgeable about providing foot care treatment. They are experts in offering advice and recommendations to keep your feet in a healthy condition, including the best shoe type and hosiery that you should be wearing.
Unlike other foot care specialists, such as podiatrists, a foot health practitioner focuses solely on treating mild and highly common foot problems that many people face.
What Conditions Can Benefit From Foot Health Care Treatment?
Many people benefit from foot care maintenance and treatments to keep their feet healthy and pain-free. With so many people on their feet for prolonged periods, either standing, walking or running, the freedom to do so pain-free is essential to the majority.
Foot problems do not discriminate and can affect people of all age groups. However, increased age, weight or being diabetic can increase common foot problems arising and having a good foot care routine in place.
The main daily duties of a qualified foot practitioner are:
● Assessing an individual's foot health
● Treatment of verrucas
● Proving treatment for fungal nail infections
● Cutting and thinning toenails
● Removing corns and calluses
● Advising on athlete's foot
● Treating ingrown toenails
● Trimming and buffing the nails
● Providing advice on footwear
● Providing follow-up care where needed
Not only assessing and creating a treatment plan to overcome your foot problem, but foot health practitioners' services are also much greater.
Following good foot care practices reduces the chance of problems arising in the future and allows you to carry out your daily activities pain-free.
The majority of people's daily activities involve using their feet, from walking, visiting loved ones, working and exercising. Having a foot problem can reduce your level of movement. Restricted from living as you wish, your overall quality of life decreases. Plus, if you have to alter the way you walk to continue moving, you are increasing your risk of accidents and falling.
Being restricted, stopping or being in pain when completing everyday daily activities can then go on to impact you in other ways. Potentially limiting your social interactions, making you isolated, and increasing the chances of depression. Mental health illness can also arise through the loss of independence.
Limited mobility can also reach past more than social engagements. It can directly impact peoples work-life. Depending on the condition, you may be in constant pain, which can cause a lack of focus when working, knocking your self-esteem and potentially risking your career.
Why Do You Need To Look After Your Feet?
You look after all other parts of your body. You would visit a chiropractor for musculoskeletal conditions, a doctor if you were unwell, and hairdressers or barbers for hair care. Yet, your feet tend to be overlooked.
When this neglect continues, and severe foot problems and pains are left untreated, your quality of life is impacted, and other health concerns may arise.
Foot problems are extremely common and can be attributed to wear and tear, ill-fitting footwear to genetic makeup. But without specialist care, these problems can escalate. Besides being painful, foot conditions can directly be linked to accidents as they can make you more susceptible to falling, losing your balance, or twisting an ankle.
In addition to potentially adding to physical injury, a foot problem can affect not only your physical health but your mental health as well.
How To Improve Your Foot Health
Visiting one of our Andover foot health practitioners at Body Complex can support you in identifying your foot health issues and providing treatment. By being able to provide advice, they can help with your ongoing foot health.
However, once they are healthy, you can do plenty to keep your feet at optimal health at home. The most influential step you can take is to keep your feet clean and frequently wash them, focusing on cleaning between the toes and trimming your nails. To prevent heel cracking, applying lotion can keep your skin supple. If your skin is already starting to dry and crack, gently using a pumice stone can buffer this skin away.
