Chiropody

he Hospital Quirónsalud Torrevieja offers you the opportunity to "take care of your feet". For this, it has the Podiatry Service, for a correct diagnosis and treatment of the foot affections and deformities.

The Podiatry Service of the Hospital Quirónsalud Torrevieja offers you:

• Chiropodology: treatment of the most common condition of the foot, such as calluses, hardness and thickened nails.
• Treatment of the plantar papilloma: clinical diagnosis and elimination of the plantar wart (papilloma).
• Study and diagnosis of gait alterations: analysis of the changes produced when walking to treat and prevent deformities (bunions) or skin lesions (calluses).
• Adaptations of suitable orthopodological treatments: pioneering service of realization, on the own foot and in the same consultation, of special treatments by means of the use of templates (flat foot, foot cavo).
• Evaluations and comprehensive treatment of diabetic foot:
  
  • Study of the risk of diabetic foot to prevent ulcers and amputations.
  • Advice on the care of diabetic feet.
  • Sensitivity tests to determine the risk.

• Adaptation of silicone orthosis: small devices that are made on the foot with the intention of correcting or protecting deformities of the fingers (for example, to avoid chafing with a claw finger).
• Nail surgery: surgical and definitive treatment of repetitive injuries due to ingrown nails.

How to detect a problem in the feet.
The pain when walking or standing, is crucial to start knowing that we can have a problem in the feet. Another sign is when "all the shoes bother us". Sometimes we do not find shoes "to our measure", a symptom of foot problems.

Tips to have healthy feet:

• go well shoes.
• hydration with special products.
• proper cuts of the nails.
• go to the podiatrist.