Andrea shows how to tape to offload a painful toenail
Sometimes an ingrown toe nail can be caused by your big toe sitting underneath your second toe and being squashed when in shoes. Sometimes it can be caused by the skin wrapping around the edge of the nail. Watch as Andrea provides a short video on how you can tape for both issues and provide some short term relief for ingrown toenail pain. …
Have you got a Wart??
Rainy and windy days, short days and long nights, heaters and red wine, this is winter to me. As a podiatrist though, winter also signals the onslaught of wart cases into the clinic. Whether it is a child who is doing swimming lessons at indoor locations or gym junkies taking their training indoors because of the cold weather, winter seems to be the season of warts. Warts (otherwise known as verrucae) are caused by a viral infection. The virus in question is the human papillomavirus (HPV-1) and this infection causes lesions to form on the skin and quite commonly on …
