(n.) One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doctor, nurse, chiropodist, dietitian, clerical officer, building and stationery costs were included in the evaluation.
(2) Advice and assessment from the following specialists need to be built into the treatment plan: dietitian, competent fundoscopist (eg optometrist, general practitioner, hospital specialist depending upon local circumstances), chiropodist, diabetes education nurse and diabetes nurse specialist.
(3) Unmet demand was mostly for chiropodists, bath attendants and physiotherapists.
(4) Questionnaires were sent to 327 chiropodists and 168 replies were received.
(5) This procedure has been common practice among chiropodists for 20 years, usually using phenol in the United Kingdom, and sodium hydroxide in the United States.
(6) Coordination group patients were more likely to have seen a chiropodist and their carers were more likely to contact a specialist nurse in a night time emergency.
(7) Although numbers of chiropodists in Canada are limited, their role is being increasingly recognized in maintaining or restoring mobility, and also their place in the community health team.
(8) The chiropodist (or podiatrist) is a health professional specializing in the treatment of conditions of the foot.
(9) This survey was carried out in response to anxiety among chiropodists as earlier reports had raised the possibility of respiratory damage as a result of sensitization to trichophytons.
(10) Optimum care of the diabetic foot is provided in a diabetic foot clinic where the skills of chiropodist, shoe-fitter and nurse receive full support from physician and surgeon.
(11) A prospective study of 422 procedures for patients with ingrowing toenails (onychocryptosis) shows that good results are achieved by segmental chemical ablation performed by chiropodists in 91% of cases.
(12) It has brought together the skills of chiropodist, shoe-fitter, nurse, physician and surgeon to manage the distinctive lesions of the neuropathic and ischaemic diabetic foot.
(13) Yet with his John Major glasses, his middle-class waistline – neither too working-class wide, nor too patrician trim – his manner of a competent but slightly distracted chiropodist, and the support of a shrewdly distributed not-quite-40% of Canadian voters, he has projected throughout the first two years an air of quiet managerial competence.
(14) We believe that segmental chemical ablation by a chiropodist is the treatment of choice for the typical patient with an ingrowing toe nail.
(15) Living alone increased the likelihood of contact with one or more community health professionals (district nurses, health visitors, or chiropodists) considered as a group and also increased the likelihood of contact with social services as a whole.
(16) In doing so, many wished for involvement of opticians, chiropodists, and dietitians, and all wished to involve the practice nurse.
(17) The cost to the practice included family health services authority reimbursements and excluded the cost of the chiropodist and dietitian.
(18) An audit of one years' work at a voluntary health care service for the homeless involving doctors, a chiropodist, nurses and social workers was carried out.
(19) The design of appliances and treatment were carried out by the physiotherapist, the chiropodist, and the bioengineer.
(20) Of those found to have onychomycosis, 27% had sought advice from a chiropodist and less than 12% had consulted a specialist.
Chiropody
Definition:
(n.) The art of treating diseases of the hands and feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have assessed foot problems of, and chiropody provision for, 96 people aged 80 years and over who were living at home.
(2) At present the provision of chiropody for old people is inadequate and ways of improving foot care must be found.
(3) Chiropody is therefore the mainstay of treatment and recurrence is prevented by redistribution of weight bearing forces by moulded insoles in special footwear.
(4) Essential aspects of management are specially constructed shoes, intensive chiropody and precise antibiotic treatment.
(5) The prevalence of symmetrically impaired distal vibration perception was 23%, and 54% of patients either needed or were receiving chiropody.
(6) When combined with palpation of peripheral pulses most patients at risk of foot ulceration can be identified allowing targeting of preventive chiropody and orthotic resources.
(7) In conclusion, despite the interest of most practices in starting a diabetic clinic, access to dietetic and chiropody services was inadequate.
(8) Of the elderly people interviewed, most had received medical care in the previous two months, and chiropody was the commonest supportive service used.
(9) Private chiropody tended to be performed in the home and was more frequent than National Health Service (NHS) treatment.
(10) Access to dietetic and chiropody services on the premises was available in 19 (41%) and 17 (37%) practices, respectively.
(11) The provision of physiotherapy and chiropody services is essential, especially for the participants' complaints, two-thirds of which affected the axial skeleton.
(12) A prototype system, which has now been extended, has been operational for some time covering the chiropody and school nursing staff groups.
(13) Trivial injuries of the foot, wounds (chiropody), bacterial or mycotic infections often lead to tissue defects in the form of a perforating ulcer (in which neuropathy predominates) or of gangrene (in which angiopathy predominates).
(14) Of the 47 people receiving chiropody, two-thirds were being seen privately.
(15) Fifteen subjects needed but were not having chiropody.
(16) Few elderly Asians were aware of social services, such as meals on wheels, home helps, social workers, and particularly chiropody.
(17) The performance of a simple glass bead sterilizer designed for use with hand held instruments such as in chiropody surgeries was studied and found to be generally within specification.
(18) The feet of 259 new patients at a chiropody clinic were examined for tinea pedis, onychomycosis, and erythrasma: 23% of men and 4% of women were infected by dermatophytes, and the nails of seven males were infected by non-dermatophytes.
(19) These results suggest that callus may act as a foreign body elevating plantar pressures and that a significant reduction in pressure is achieved by local chiropody treatment.
(20) Chiropodial care was less readily available in 1990 with 17% of respondents (compared with 11%) reporting a complete lack in the clinic.