(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.
Podiatrist
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The basic signs, symptoms, and treatment modalities are discussed in order to provide more complete knowledge of a condition commonly seen by the podiatrist.
(2) A hallux abducto valgus surgical evaluation form is presented in order for the podiatrist to logically assess the patient's deformity.
(3) At 22 weeks pregnant, Wallace and her husband, a podiatrist, were told the baby boy she was carrying had a lethal neurological condition and would not survive outside the womb.
(4) Therefore, this study is designed to measure the variation in values for the five basic angles among a group of podiatrists with varying capabilities, training, and experiences, and demonstrates that preoperative radiographic measurements may not be an accurate reflection of the general degree of pathology about the first metatarsophalangeal joint.
(5) It is from this viewpoint that we as podiatrists can make the largest contribution in sports medicine.
(6) The patient was seen by the acknowledged internist and podiatrist.
(7) The purpose of this article is to show the possibility of using fetal membranes as a biologic dressing for some of the pedal ulcerations that podiatrists encounter.
(8) The surgical loss of the foot or leg is vigorously resisted by podiatrists who are committed to the conservation of limbs at risk because of peripheral vascular disease.
(9) Therefore, the podiatrist should have an adequate knowledge and skill in the knee examination, anatomy, pathology, and biomechanics to properly diagnose and treat disorders of the joint.
(10) The diagnostic dilemma or the difficult management case can be referred for a second opinion or therapeutic assistance to a podiatrist, rheumatologist, or the orthopedist with a special interest in feet.
(11) The podiatrist can make a valuable contribution to the health of children by recognizing early symptoms.
(12) Referral to a podiatrist is recommended for long-term management of the Charcot foot.
(13) Proper attention to each cause may require consultations with vascular or orthopedic surgeons, diabetic education nurses, podiatrists, orthotists, and pedorthists.
(14) The new government needs to act quickly to turn around our struggling NHS and we believe huge potential exists in a wider untapped workforce which includes firemen, hairdressers, podiatrists and pharmacists.” Kate Sanger, spokeswoman, Royal Society for Public Health 2.
(15) As patients with these disorders frequently seek podiatric evaluation early in the course of these disorders, the podiatrist must be an expert in the prompt recognition and proper treatment of these disorders.
(16) She was diagnosed as definite type of rheumatoid arthritis by one podiatrist.
(17) The malignant bone lesions discussed in this paper are those commonly encountered by the podiatrist.
(18) This is helpful to the podiatrist in recognizing those dermatologic disease states in which the various aspects of the individual participate in the disease, signs and symptoms of the disease, and the potential psychological value of the disease for the patient.
(19) Seventy-eight runners competing in three Iowa races were surveyed concerning their most recent running injury for which they sought medical care from a family physician, an orthopedic surgeon, or a podiatrist.
(20) The chiropodist (or podiatrist) is a health professional specializing in the treatment of conditions of the foot.