Foot health day: podiatrists are mobilizing

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Foot health day podiatrists are mobilizing

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    Without them, we wouldn’t get very far. Yet we tend to overlook the health of our feet. This is a mistake, because the pathologies that concern them can have repercussions on the whole body. In case of pain, or not, National Foot Health Day is an opportunity to show them to a podiatrist.

    Organized each year, since 2003, by the French Union of Foot Health (UFSP), the National Day of Foot Health offers anyone who wishes to consult podiatrists, professionals who are not consulted enough. Meetings are organized all over the territory, in order to encourage the French to show their feet. This year, the focus is on nail pathologies.

    Free consultations

    On June 16, more than a hundred chiropodists will be there to answer your questions during free consultations organized in public places.

    “These meetings are a moment of exchange and prevention that can benefit everyone.explains Cyril Marchou, podiatrist and administrator of the UFSP. We do not provide care for free, but we can make a diagnosis, answer people’s questions and guide them to make an appointment with a pedicure-podiatrist when necessary.

    Teleconsultations will also be offered, especially for people who cannot travel. “Just make an appointment on the dedicated Maiia platform, it’s free and it lasts longer, there are slots open until June 18“, further specifies the professional.

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    Reinforce prevention with certain audiences

    The Union of podiatrists, a union that represents liberal pedicurists-podiatrists, is a partner of the UFSP for this awareness day. For its president, Jean-Loup Lafeuillade, “the prevention of foot pathologies is a public health issue“.

    And to take the example of children and the elderly. “Correcting their static disorders from an early age will help them avoid problems with osteoarthritis of the knee, hip or back later on. In the same way, in the elderly, the treatment of corns and calluses helps to prevent falls and, therefore, all their consequences.“explains the president of the Union of podiatrists.

    In the same way, athletes, due to their intensive practice, and people with diabetes, due to the possible consequences of their disease on the lower limbs, also require reinforced monitoring of the health of their feet.

    And good news: the foot doesn’t just have its day, it also has its prevention week which will end on June 18. A call of the foot, in a way.



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