{"id":244,"date":"2020-04-02T07:59:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/?page_id=244"},"modified":"2020-04-09T19:33:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:33:24","slug":"what-is-a-podiatrist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/what-is-a-podiatrist\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Podiatrist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5MZVwBztrM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span class=\"style_1\">Podiatrists are specialists who:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\">Are responsible for the early diagnosis of many health problems<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_5\">Play a key role in preventing and treating those aspects which affect the foot and lower limb<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\">Provide a fully comprehensive foot health service, including:<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span class=\"style_2\">Relief of pain caused by deformities and dysfunction<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\"><span class=\"style_3\">short term treatment of immediate relief of painful symptoms<br \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\"><span class=\"style_3\">long term management<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"style_2\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Curative foot care<\/strong><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\"><span class=\"style_3\">Use of therapeutic techniques, including invasive and non-invasive surgery, steroid injections, laser, etc.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_10\">Prescription and provision of individual appliances and orthoses (prescription insoles)<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span class=\"style_2\">Preventative services<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_11\">Inspection of feet and the detection of foot conditions and foot and ankle related orthopaedic problems, especially in children<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_10\">Foot health education<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span class=\"style_2\">Recognition of medical conditions which manifest themselves in the feet<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_11\">Treatment and alleviation of resultant foot problems. Examples include ulcerative conditions, Inflammatory Arthropathies and diabetic problems<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"full-width\">\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_11\">We hold bimonthly in-service training meetings to keep the clinical staff up to date in addition to Continual Professional Development courses our staff attend to maintain their professional registration<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_14\"><em><span class=\"style_1\">\u201cPodiatry has changed dramatically in the last 20 years&#8230;Podiatrists often perform minor surgery, issue antibiotics, give steroid injections, prescribe custom insoles (orthotics), use laser, ultrasound scanners and\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"style_1\"><em>walk-on pressure measurement scanners in their clinics in addition to traditional podiatry treatments\u201d<\/em><br \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_15\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"style_4\" style=\"color: #ff9900;\">\u201cdid you know Podiatrists are independent practitioners?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"maxbutton-10 maxbutton maxbutton-click-here-to-telephone-us\" href=\"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/home\/clinic-locations\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Click here to book in by phone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"maxbutton-6 maxbutton maxbutton-book-an-appointment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/home\/onlinebookings\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Click here to book in online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podiatrists are specialists who: Are responsible for the early diagnosis of many health problems Play a key role in preventing and treating those aspects which affect the foot and lower limb Provide a fully comprehensive foot health service, including: Relief of pain caused by deformities and dysfunction short term treatment of immediate relief of painful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa9kLs-3W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}