These are custom-built medical devices that fit inside the footwear, and are essential for correcting and compensating for abnormalities of the footing.
The podiatrist intervenes through chemical cautery, which promotes destruction of the virus and restoration of healthy skin.
These are infections that present as fleshy, hard, benign growths.
Yes, the podiatrist performs conservative treatment of the lamina, removing the portion of the nail that caused the ingrowth.
The primary cause is improper cutting, followed by over-pressure of the anterior shoe, hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), trauma, and improper walking.
They are a thickening of the skin layer that causes pain during walking.
They do not heal, but can be removed through periodic podiatric treatments.
It is a fungal infection of one or more nails that is manifested by a change in the color of the lamina, making it thicker, weakening it, and causing it to crumble.
Through the application of local antifungals , after the podiatrist performs a removal of the fungus being infected.
Thick nails are an alteration in the growth of the nail plate that is manifested by obvious deformation, caused by trauma of various kinds, onychomycosis, etc.
