Podology and Diabetes
Foot health, foot and nail care are very important for patients with diabetes.
Problematic feet and nails lead to serious medical problems.
It is very important for patients with diabetes to consult a podologist about nail care and trimming.
What Does Podology (Foot Health) Mean?
Podology is a field that deals with foot health and diseases. It is a discipline that cooperates with specialist physicians for protective and preventive treatment methods in foot health and protective treatment methods in foot diseases.
Early diagnosis is also very important in foot diseases. Podologists evaluate the foot in all respects and refer the patients to another department if they detect the symptoms of other diseases. In this sense, they contribute to early diagnosis and treatment process and play an important role in the post-treatment care of patients.
Our clinic provides non-surgical foot care and treatment for all individuals with foot disorders, especially those with diabetes. The Podology (Foot Health) Clinic of our hospital deals with all the problems related to feet to prevent patients with diabetes from foot wounds.
Medical foot care and treatment are provided with all patients with impaired foot health at our clinic as well as insole service used in the treatment of stepping problems.
Main purpose of Podology is to prevent patients from foot wounds, which is a feared complication especially in patients with diabetes. Foot wounds cause serious complications for both patients and their relatives, and these processes can result in loss of limbs. Patients with diabetes, who receive foot care and undergo check-ups on a regular basis, have a lower risk of wound development.
All problems developing in feet such as nail fungus, ingrown toenails, deformed nails, callus, heel hyperkeratosis, cracked heels, stepping problems, medical foot care, dryness, foot care of patients with diabetes, treatments of yellowed, thickened and deformed nails are taken care of at our hospital.
The important thing in patients with diabetes is to notice the problems before development of the wounds on the feet.
The areas with the risk of wound development are identified in examinations and necessary precautions are taken.
Treatment Methods
How to Treat Cracked Heel?
Many factors that negatively affect daily life, such as cracked heels and thick calluses, can be treated without causing pain or damage.
How to Treat Ingrown Toenails?
Ingrown nails are cleaned in line with appropriate methods selected for patients without a surgical need of denailing, and treatment can be provided with a wire fixer to prevent the ingrown nail from recurring. A wire fixer corrects the form of the nail and allows a permanent solution. In treatment with wire fixers, patients can easily walk, wear shoes and continue their daily life.
How to Treat Nail Fungus?
In treatment of nail fungus, the fungal sites of the nails are removed without damaging viable tissues and nail root by means of using appropriate freeze tips. This procedure, which is different from pedicure and nail trimming, must be performed by well-trained podologists. After the cleaning process, appropriate supportive treatments are applied to the healthy nail and nail root.
How Is Ingrown Toenail Treated?
Treatment with a wire fixer, which is an alternative treatment to surgical denailing, is applied in patients with ingrown toenails.
Treatment of Stepping Problems
Genetic or acquired foot problems (such as flat feet, claw foot) are treated with the use of personalized insoles. Thanks to the gait analysis conducted at our polyclinic, pressing problems are determined and personalized insoles are made for patients.
DIABETIC / MEDICAL FOOT CARE
Monthly foot care is provided for people with foot care problems as well as patients with diabetes using appropriate techniques.
How to Treat Callus and Cracked Heels?
Calluses and cracked heels caused by stepping and posture disorders are cleaned with appropriate devices without harming the patient and treated to prevent recurrence. The patients do not feel pain or tenderness during the cleaning procedure.
Treatment of Yellowed, Thickened and Deformed Nails
How Are Nails Treated?
In the treatment of such nail deformations, the dead tissue covering the healthy nail is cleaned with the help of an appropriate device without harming patients. Nail treatment should be continued with special techniques so that the underlying healthy nail can grow again without deformation.