Chiropody & Podiatry

Do you have a problem with your feet, toes, toenails, or ankles? Let our fully qualified practitioners relieve your pain. We can help you if you suffer from any of the following:

• Callus, corns, warts, or hard skin on your feet
• Itchy, flaky, or red skin on your feet or toes
• Ingrown toenails
• Trouble cutting your toenails, especially if you’re elderly or have Diabetes
• Thick, crumbly, or discoloured toenails
• Muscle or joint pain (including arthritis) in your feet or ankles
• Nail surgery
• Nail correction
• SWIFT microwave verruca therapy.

Callus, corns, hard skin, and warts aka verrucae.

If you have hard skin on your foot or toes, then our practitioners can help you get your foot back to normal. When you visit Cambridge Foot Clinic, the first thing your practitioner will do is determine what type of hard skin you have and what is causing it. Based on assessment and your medical history, your practitioner will determine what type of treatment may be suitable to address the problem.

Callus and corns are caused by pressure or friction on your skin, that causes your skin to thicken into a hard layer. Your practitioner can gently and painlessly remove your callus and corns and then advise you on how to prolong their return time. Sometimes changes to your footwear can prevent them from coming back. We may recommend special strapping, padding, or insoles to reduce the pressure and friction on your skin and prevent the problem from coming back.

For corns, our practitioners will make sure that they remove the centre of the corn. After a corn is removed, you should feel no pain or pain that you felt prior to treatment, ought to be reduced substantially. For callus removal, we use a gentle debriding process to remove the dead skin. Please keep in mind that unless the cause is eliminated, both callus and corns tend to return. The time that it takes for them to return varies from person to person. Some patients are seen every 4 weeks, others are seen 1-2 times a year.

If you have a wart (aka verruca), it is from a viral infection called HPV. This is a very common virus that you can catch in wet public places like swimming pools. It is not possible to remove a wart non-surgically. As the virus causes infection of the top layer of the skin, it often goes ‘unnoticed’ by the immune system. Our objective is to trigger an immune system response, which would then initiate clearance of the lesion/s. Depending on the type, and size of verruca and the patient’s medical history, a practitioner may offer treatment using Swift microwave or Verrutop or Cryotherapy.

We are often asked: “Does it hurt to remove callus, wart, or corn?”.  While we can’t promise that you will experience absolutely zero discomfort, we can assure you that our practitioners at Cambridge Foot Clinic are experienced and gentle. So, you will experience very minimal discomfort.

Inflamed skin

If your skin is itchy, flaky or red, then it is likely that you are suffering from skin fungal infection. Your feet are one of the sweatiest parts of your body; unfortunately, this makes your feet vulnerable to fungal infections. Come to our Cambridge Foot Clinic and let our practitioners treat your infection and restore your feet. Your practitioner will also be able to advise you on how to prevent fungal infection from occurring again in the future.

Toenail problems

We can help you if you need help cutting your toenails or if you suffer from thick, crumbly, discoloured, or ingrown toenails.

If you’re elderly or your nails are very thick, it can be difficult to cut them yourself. Let our experienced Cambridge Foot Clinic practitioner cut and file your nails safely for you.

If you have Diabetes, then it is especially important for you to have your nails cut in the correct way, because you have an increased risk of infection. You may also have reduced nerve sensitivity in your feet, so you may not even realise if you damage your skin while cutting your nails. Our Cambridge Foot Clinic practitioner can cut and file your nails in a way that doesn’t do any damage to the nail bed or the surrounding skin, to ensure that you don’t get an infection.

If your toenails are crumbling or discoloured, then it’s likely that you’re suffering from a toenail fungal infection. When you come to our Cambridge Foot Clinic, your practitioner can treat the infection and advise you on changes you can make to your footwear or daily habits to prevent the infection from coming back. Treating nail fungal infections, depending on different factors, can be a lengthy process and often requires self-treatment at home.

Ingrown toenails

Ingrown toenails can cause pain along the sides and corners of your nails. You may be suffering from pain, redness, and possibly even a pus-filled wound. Our practitioners can relieve your pain and provide advice on how to reduce the risk of getting an ingrown toenail in the future. The treatment method involves gently removing the part of the toenail that is ingrown, by removing a little section of the nail that is causing the pain, and then putting an antiseptic dressing on the wound to help it heal. If your ingrown toenail is very serious, then we can also offer you nail surgery procedures.

Joint and muscle pain in your feet or ankles

If you suffer from ankle pain, pain in the arch of your foot, pain in your calf, or sharp pains under the ball of your foot, then our practitioners may be able to help you. These problems are often caused by soft tissues being overloaded, which then can apply extra stress on areas of your feet or ankles. This can also aggravate arthritis in your feet or ankles.

Depending on your symptoms and medical history, our practitioners may recommend a biomechanical assessment, this is a thorough examination of a patient’s lower limbs to establish a definitive diagnosis and the cause of painful symptoms, this would enable us to come up with a suitable treatment plan.

If you would like to book an appointment with Roman or Iryna, please use their online booking system. If you have a question for Cambridge Foot Clinic, they can be contacted by email at info@cambridgefootclinic.co.uk