PODIATRY

The program includes:

• indications and contraindications for specialized pedicure
• most common skin lesions of the foot - management
• handling of instruments after the procedure - hygiene in the podiatry office
• recommendations to the patient for home care
• Performing a specialized pedicure treatment: nail preparation with cutters, including a front cutter (no need for files), hyperkeratotic nails (ceramic cutter work), removal of corns (vacuum cutter work) and more

Block B (orthonyxia)

Ingrown toenail (Unguis incarnatus).

• clinical picture of ingrown nails - classification according to Scholz
• characteristics of the condition
• pathogenesis
• types

Methods of correcting ingrown toenails

• Procedural: discussion of surgical methods (Quenu, Frost, Zadik method, marginal nail plate resection with matrix phenolization)
• Conservative: discussion of in-office techniques (tamponade, corrective tubes, Arkady ankle, orthonyxia)

Office management of ingrown nail

• preparation of the nail for bracket application
• PodoFix corrective bracket application
• tamponade application
• patient education - home management