Home treatments for retronychia, as recommended by a qualified podiatrist.

How to recognise, treat and prevent chilblains

How to expertly trim your toenails to avoid ingrowing toenails.

The definitive guide to answer your questions about medical pedicures.

Let's face it: needles make a lot of us squirm. Just the thought of getting a shot can send shivers down our spines or make us break into a nervous sweat. But what if I told you that needles don’t have to be part of your healthcare routine anymore? Welcome to the world of **needle-free injectors**! Gone are the days of steeling yourself for the jab or getting jittery at the sight of a syringe. Needle-free injectors are making medical treatments and vaccinations way more comfo

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Causes, symptoms and management of foot strike haemolysis.

Understanding mixoid cysts: causes, symptoms and treatment.

What is retronychia and how can it be cured?

Foot health advice for runners

Dry skin on your heels? It could be a fungal infection.

Yellow toenails can be caused by many things. It is not automatically a fungal toenail infection! It’s worth bearing in mind that most fungal toenail infections (onychomycosis) are caused by a pre-existing fungal SKIN infection… so if you haven’t got any signs of athlete’s foot, this means it is less likely that that yellow nail is caused by a fungus. ( It’s not impossible however. I’ve written another article on this – to be posted soon ). For info - a schematic so you know

After attending an inspirational talk at the Foot Health Conference in June, I have written a short piece on lipoedema.

General Observations A Podiatrist can tell a lot about your circulation just by looking at your feet. What colour is the skin? How dry is it? What's going on with those nails? These baseline checks can help to give a general overview as to your foot health. Palpate Pedal Pulses Good practice is to check the pedal pulses by applying as many fingers as possible (typically 4) to the corresponding areas of the feet; the dorsalis pedis (top of the foot, usually felt somewhere al

link to a professional webinar: verruca update.

A blog all about ingrowing toenails.

Well, perhaps not everything , but quite a lot (!) Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can have a significant impact on the feet. Complications primarily result from high (poorly controlled) blood sugar levels which damage the nerves (neuropathy) and blood vessels in the feet. There are an estimated 4.5 million people with diabetes in the UK alone. Foot problems are not inevitable . The chance of developing complications associated with diabetes can be minimised by carefully m

Before we get started, we'll just address the elephant in the blog space - what's the difference between a podiatrist and a chiropodist? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And so the difference between a podiatrist/chiropodist and a foot health practitioner (FHP)is what then? A podiatrist/chiropodist and a foot health practitioner are both healthcare professionals specialising in the care of the feet and lower limbs, but they differ in terms of their training , scope of practice

Other causes of odd looking toenails.

Around 50% of fungal nail infections are misdiagnosed. If you've thrown everything and the bucket at that thick, yellow toenail of yours - it might not be what you think... ...the good news is Oxfordshire Chiropody & Podiatry offers a quick, painless in-clinic test to determine once and for all whether that dodgy-looking nail is fungal or not. The test is 97% specific for the most common type of fungal infection (dermatophytes), Dermatophytes are responsible for more than