As natural as the care of the hair, the face and the hands has become for most people today, the foot more or less hidden by stocking and shoe is still criminally neglected in contrast. Yet our foot has to bear the entire weight of the body, and moreover, a variety of demands are placed on it, ranging from standing for long periods of time. Careful maintenance and proper treatment are therefore urgently needed to effectively counter the very numerous widespread foot ailments.
Corns and calluses on the feet
Foot care, also called pedicure, involves shortening the toenails and removing calluses (including corns). On the other hand, medical foot care or podiatry includes direct treatments of the feet. In persistent and severe cases it is absolutely necessary to consult an orthopedic specialist. However, for a number of ailments, the podiatrist or chiropodist can provide salutary relief. They try to remove corns (hardened sebaceous glands) and calluses caused by pressure points in the shoe as painlessly and bloodlessly as possible. Not every corn can be recognized as such by the layman. The main painful spot is hard as a rock and becomes visible as a white spot after removing the uppermost horny layer. Here, pedicure loosens layer upon layer and then lifts out the last hard spot, which usually ends in the root of the hardened sebaceous gland. Corns also occur between the toes. They are removed and the toes are separated by small sponges to prevent recurrence. But not every painful pressure point is a corn. For example, in the case of splayfoot, calluses form on the sole of the foot, and only later do plantar warts develop on the calluses. Calluses and corns are properly removed by foot care by milling or rasping. Even a timely treatment can completely eliminate the evil, if at the same time you fix the causal defects in the shoes (pressure from too tight and too narrow laces, from decorative seams, folds in the lining of the shoe, etc.).
Foot care against calluses and corns
Often, however, such complaints are neglected for years, and foot care must then eliminate pencil-thick calluses and pea-sized corns. Under no circumstances should you let it get that far. If you go for treatment right away, you will be spared a lot of pain. Foot remedies, which are also occasionally offered by the shoe store, are usually used improperly by the layman. The result is that the healthy skin is removed, but the corn remains or at most is only loosened in the upper layer. In the case of mutilations of the foot due to accidents or genetically caused adhesions, calluses and corns also develop on the stumps, which are particularly painful for the foot, which is already very sensitive in itself. Here, too, foot care intervenes by timely and constant removal of the evils help.
Correctly cut and care for toenails
The treatment or removal of foot ailments and diseases, such as corns, nail fungus and belong with the medical foot care. A bad habit is the wrong trimming of toenails and toenails. They should always be cut straight, as the nail must be held on both sides of the nail fold. If this is not observed and the toenail is cut round like a fingernail, then you breed yourself an ingrown nail, which causes great pain and must be surgically removed. The so-called wooden nail is caused by strong, sudden pressure on the toenail, under which a bruise forms on the nail bed. This nail now grows more upward than forward and thickens. Timely treatment guarantees at least a halfway normal nail again by thinning the wooden nail, repeated in certain time intervals, which otherwise has to be removed by a medical operation, but still grows thickened again. The greatest and also most painful evil is the so-called frost bunion (hallux valgus, crooked toe), a change in the big toe-foot joint as a result of splayfoot formation. Especially women who have walked in heeled shoes (high heels, stiletto heels) all their lives suffer from this foot deformity. In severe cases, only surgical intervention can help. However, foot care can also alleviate this problem. It straightens the crooked toe that led to the frost bunion by porous rubber wedge and removes the corns that like to form on the frost bunion.After all, every proper foot care includes a foot strengthening massage, after which you feel like a newborn.
