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What is the difference between pedicure and medical nursing foot care? Why should you consider medical nursing foot care instead?
Posted on March 8, 2014 by Admin
Definition of Pedicure:
A pedicure is a way to improve the appearance of the feet and toenails. The word pedicure refers to superficial cosmetic treatment of the feet and toenails. They are extremely popular throughout the world, primary among women.
What is medical nursing foot care?
A foot care nurse is a registered nurse or a licenced practical nurse who has taken specialized training in foot care. They work along with a team of health care professionals such as family doctors, podiatrists, chiropodists, physiotherapists, and others to keep a person mobile and decrease the risk of developing foot complications.
Nurses also assess feet for circulation, sensation, edema, swelling.
The expense of foot care can be tax deductible if the receipts has the licences NURSE’S registration on the receipt. Many health insurance plan also covers nursing foot care. Medical foot care is a dry, meaning there is no footbath like the ones associated with many spa pedicures. Medical foot care is performed by trained and qualified foot care nurses -Registered Nurse or Practical Nurse (foot experts) not cosmetologists. They also treat skin, nail and foot conditions and can advise you on preventative treatment. That grotesque wart on the side of your foot? Consider it gone. Calluses, corns, ingrown toenails, yellow nails and everything in between… they can handle it all.
Unlike a pedicure Medical Foot Care looks at the overall health of the feet, including diagnosis and treatment of various foot problems such as ingrown toenails, fungal infection, Athlete’s foot, warts, proriasis etc..Medical foot care is provided in a sterile, professional environment. All equipment is fully sterilized, instruments sealed, packaged and unique to each individual. Prior to treatment the skin is softened with antibacterial solution in order to remove dry and dead skin, shaping, buffing the toenails. During the session the feet are diagnosed and treated for nail or skin damage. Spa pedicures “sterilise” instruments between use by placing them in bright blue barbicide or a similar product. However medical foot care providers use fully sterilized or, and one-time only tools such as blades, which come from sealed packages. Also because it is is performed on dry feet there is no risk of infection arising from a shared footbath. Everything is extremely hygienic whereas hygiene or sanitation standards cannot always be guaranteed in popular nail salons.
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