My services
PEDICURE
foot care
PODIATRY
POSTUROLOGY
Study of posture and postural treatment
SMALL
EQUIPMENT
Tailor-made equipment suitable for each situation
K-TAPING
Still call Neuromuscular Bands
SOIN DE PÉDICURIE
During a pedicure consultation, the professional takes care of conditions such as :
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ingrown toenails
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Calluses and Corns
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Nail and dermal fungus, warts (in some cases)
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Onychogriphosis
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Nail clipping, cleaning and debridement of nail folds
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Etc.…
The professional gives all the advice necessary for good maintenance and follow-up care and makes the necessary prescriptions.
He can advise the wearing of protective or corrective equipment such as orthoplasties, night orthoses. Most often, he manufactures them himself to measure but can advise to buy them in pharmacies.
This type of device is often recommended for claw toes, hallux-valgus (''bunions''), corns between the toes, in young children with overlapping toes or suffering from ingrown toenails. repetition.
Some practitioners perform surgeries for bony deviations or ultra-infected and deep ingrown nails themselves. Otherwise, you can also consult an orthopedic surgeon.
If this is the reason for consultation, ask beforehand whether the podiatrist performs these procedures.
Ingrown nail
heel calluses
pulpal horn
PODOLOGY and POSTUROLOGY
The podiatrist studies the position and diagnoses pathologies of the feet and lower limbs. When possible, he establishes the cause (etiology) and offers treatment via orthopedic insoles.
According to the pathology and the causes of appearance, the podiatrist manufactures custom-made insoles. They are now almost systematically thermoformed. Thermoformed insoles are made with materials that soften under the effect of heat and keep the shape of the foot once cooled.
The podiatrist chooses materials in line with the context of the patient's life.
Then there is still meticulous work to be done in his workshop!
When should you consult a podiatrist?
• During muscle and tendon problems, whether or not related to physical exercise: tendinitis, sprains, compartment syndrome, tennis-legs, growth pathology such as Sever's disease (pain in the growth cartilage of the heel), heel spurs, plantar aponeurosis...
• During joint pain such as: hallux-valgus, gonalgia, metatarsalgia, coxalgia. May be due to unequal length of the lower limbs, scoliosis, flat feet, hollow feet, genu-valgum, trauma...
• During chronic inflammatory conditions, such as low back pain, lumbago, cruralgia, sciatica
• Venous return problem: massage of the arch of the foot, generated by the soles, activates the vascular network of Lejars)
• Following surgery, in order to relieve the operated areas.
• To improve your sports practice and prevent inflammatory pathology specific to each sport
• To improve balance and thus reduce the causes of falls.
• Etc.…
Posturology is a specialty. Your podiatrist, your dentist, your optician, optometrist or orthoptist, as well as your osteopath or your doctor, can be a posturologist.
The reasons for consultations remain the same, but you can add to this diseases or syndromes such as: fibromyalgia, dyslexia, Parkinson's disease, ocular or hepatic migraines, postural deficiency syndrome (PDS), bruxism, etc.
In children and adolescents: walking in internal rotation or on tiptoe, hyperactivity, precocity.
The posturologist acts on the postural regulation system (SRP). It is a reflex system, in the same way as the cardiac system, the digestive system... which allows muscle tone to adapt to the needs of the posture: movement, balance, immobility
The posturologist is interested in the quality of the reflex responses of the feet, the mandibles and the oculomotor muscles of the eyes, which are the ''entrance gates'' of the postural regulation system. It is through these areas that the system collects the information necessary for its operation.
For this, the posturologist dissects the reasons for consultation and the medical history. He questions you about your eating habits, your digestion, your sleep, skin conditions, pulmonary, venous, systemic conditions, in your childhood, during your birth or during childbirth, on your family background…
It examines dysfunctional areas, which can be articular, visceral, ligamentous, muscular, or emotional.
To do this, he performs tests on muscle tone, joint amplitude, kinesiological tests, which are reproducible at each consultation in order to see the changes.
It studies the movements of the center of gravity, thanks to a barometric platform.
He carries out manual therapies, in order to determine the chronology of appearances of the disorders or the therapeutic priorities.
Finally, he tests the different therapeutic solutions, and establishes a treatment proposal in his area of expertise or can contact one of his colleagues to optimize the treatment.
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The doctor can play the ''conductor'' and supervise in order to treat with medication if necessary.
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Eye specialists will offer you glasses with postural prisms.
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The dentist will offer you bite guards or dental treatment.
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The osteopath will carry out a manual therapy in order to unblock locally and rebalance globally. Thus the sensitive voices will be released in order to be able to receive the proprioceptive information correctly and make the modifications without pain.
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The podiatrist will suggest so-called proprioceptive postural insoles.
Children's glasses with postural prisms
Bite guards
Proprioceptive insoles: ultra thin
All the devices that will be offered to you are designed to carry out postural reprogramming, or to carry out a rebalancing.
Depending on the pathologies, and over time, your body remembers malpositions that it no longer detects, or even that it integrates into its normality.
The purpose of the stimulations is to make him react again so that he makes the corrections and “prints” them.
Postural treatment is fast, when it is carried out correctly, that is to say with regular monitoring and consulting all the necessary specialties.
With regard to podiatry, a period of 8 to 12 months is necessary, interspersed with 4 to 6 consultations in order to carry out the proprioceptive modifications on the soles.
At the end of the treatment, the consultations will be:
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Symptoms in adults and seniors
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Annually or every 2 years for people with chronic illness, athletes and hypermobile people.
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At the end of each growth spurt for children or in the event of the onset of pain.
Why choose a postural approach, rather than a purely podiatric one, for foot problems, back pain, or in the lower limbs?
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Well because the foot is often the last link in the chain, and therefore if the foot is painful, it is because at the level of the upper floors, the body can no longer compensate.
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Because posturology takes a global look at a local problem, in order to treat the cause and not just the symptom.
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And also, because it is a treatment that most often remains punctual and which restores the body's capacities in order to restart its pharmacopoeia to heal itself.
SMALL APPLIANCES
ORTHOPLASTY:
Custom designed device with the toes in corrected position or just to protect a painful corn.
It is made of silicone elastomer, which makes it flexible but dimensionally stable. Cleans with soap and water, as regularly as your feet!
ORTHONYXIS:
Treatment of ingrown toenails.
Orthonyxies are small devices for treating chronic ingrown toenails. Stays on the nail all the time of regrowth (4 to 6 months).
Elastic or titanium wire which exerts an attractive force on the nail and the underlying ligaments, in order to straighten the nail and stretch the ligaments.
Equipment that has a residual action of up to 6 months after removal.
NIGHT ORTHOSES:
Mainly used for bony deviations such as hallux valgus.
The rigid and adjustable splint thanks to Velcro strips.
Worn at night to increase the corrective effect on the deviation and to benefit from muscle relaxation to stretch the ligament of the adductor hallucis brevis muscle, partly responsible for the deformity.
NEUROMUSCULAR BANDS
These are the bands of colors that you see on the skin of athletes during sports broadcasts! The practice is becoming much more democratic, we meet this technique more and more often in sports clubs, at your physiotherapist or even on the sportsmen of your public garden.
Why does your podiatrist practice K-Taping?
Well, bandaging with neuromuscular bands improves conventional therapies and provides a rapid response to a local symptom, without additives or drugs. The band is elastic, 100% cotton, permeable to air and water, water resistant to be able to keep them on for a period of several days or even weeks and does not contain any irritating substance in order to respect the epidermis.
Fields of use:
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Improved muscle function (contractions, imbalances)
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Joint support (improving stability and motor skills)
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Analgesic
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Activation of the lymphatic system (drainage of edemas and hematomas, post-operative care)
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Prevention or pending equipment.
In a nutshell, the operating principle:
Thanks to its elasticity, the strips modify the elasticity of the skin and this, all the time of application. Thus the sensory receptors of the dermis, in contact with the ligamentous and muscular tissues and the articular capsules, are permanently activated in order to promote the flow of sensory information. Due to the particular techniques of application of these bands, the therapist takes influence on this system of receptors.
