In the United Kingdom context a ‘foot health practitioner’ is an unregistered provider of routine and basic foot care. Unlike podiatrists, they are not registered by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Such practitioners do not exist...
It is a scam. Its a fraud. A foot detox uses different methods to allegedly remove toxins from the body. It does not work and can not work. There is no research that shows it works and there is no physiological pathway in which foot detoxes actually...
A fish pedicure is the use of the live fish, Garra rufa, to “eat” and remove the dead skin on the feet. It is something that is not for the squeamish, but does appear to be quite popular in some places. The fish pedicure is actually banned in...
A fish pedicure involves dipping the feet into a container of water that is filled with fish. These fish, Garra rufa, which sometimes get called “doctor fish”, then eat the dead skin off the feet giving a pedicure These fish pedicures are popular in...
For all intensive purposes, there is no difference between the terms podiatry and chiropody. They are the same thing. Some like to invent differences between them to make out that podiatrists are better than chiropodists for egoistical reasons...
I am! I started it in August 2004. Podiatry Arena is one of the most visited podiatry related websites. It used to have a lot of activity and there is a lot of posts still every day. Since the advent of social media the interaction on Podiatry Arena...
Chinese foot binding is that barbaric practice of binding the feet of young girls to prevent them growing and kept small as they would then considered to be more desirable. The practice was outlawed in 1912 by the Republic of China government, but...
Chinese foot binding is a historical and brutal practice that was mostly carried out in rural China. The practice involved the tight binding of the feet of young girls to stop them growing. This lead to broken bones and very deformed and painful...
Chinese foot binding was the barbaric practice in which the feet of young girls were bound to prevent them growing as a smaller foot was considered more desirable, resulting in lifelong pain and disability. Scholars are not totally clear when the...
