Does it surprise you that a large number of the population will have some kind of trouble with their feet and will require the services of a medical foot care professional?

Did you know

• Each foot contains 26 bones and over 100 ligaments to keep your body stable
• There are more than 7000 nerve endings in you feet
• Each foot has approximately 125,000 sweat glands and can produce up to 250mL of sweat per day
• The average Canadian walks between 4500-5000 steps/day

 

We are thrilled to announce the addition of  foot care services at our Riverside Therapeutics clinic. Medical foot care will be offered by our certified Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses and include the following services:

• Nail care (trimming; care of thickened, brittle, fungal, and ingrown nails)
• Corn treatment
• Callus treatment
• Bunion treatment
• Skin and wound care/ulcers
• Preventative practices and maintenance foot care
• Foot and lower leg assessments
• ABIs
• Diabetic foot care
• Foot health education
• Identification of potential foot health problems and recommendations of appropriate treatment and care

 

Advanced Medical foot care is beneficial to people with the following:

• Diabetics
• Arthritis/Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Peripheral Vascular Disease (decreased or poor circulation)
• Active wounds or a history of wounds
• Neuropathy
• Lymphedema
• Decreased dexterity
• Cancer
• Taking certain high risk medications (blood thinners, steroids)
• People who cannot adequately provide themselves with foot care.

 

Onyfix Nail Corrective System

The principle of the Onyfix nail correction system is to bring involuted or ingrown nails back into a natural shape through normal growth without any tension or pain, following more or less proximal application of the Onyfix correction brace using a hardened composite. Your foot care expert first prepares the nail prior to application. The Onyfix composite is then spread on the nail and shaped correctly. After the composite has hardened, the nail correction system fixes the nail in its natural shape.

The Onyfix nail correction system ensures that this shape is retained as the nail grows naturally. When treatment has been completed successfully, your foot care expert removes the correction system, which is also pain-free.

What can I expect?

• Treatments usually take about 2-4 applications, spaced about 3 months apart.
• The full treatment may take 6-12 months, depending on the severity of the nail, and based on the fact that our toenails only grow about 1mm a month.
• The composite usually last about 3 months, or when it reaches 2/3 the length of the nail.
• Most will stay on, until they fall off on their own. The average stay time is 4 months.
• Falling off at 2/3 the grow of the nail, is normal and expected, and is not a failure of treatment. It simply means that the product was naturally loosened by the growth and increased flexibility of the nail as it grows longer from the nail root or matrix.
• It is expected to be reapplied at this stage.
• Very active clients with heavy, frequent forces applied may see it fall off sooner.
• Also, very thin and brittle nails may see fall-offs sooner than the 3 months, or 2/3 the growth of the nail, simply due to the flexibility of the nail. This is normal and inevitable.
• Treatment will work even with frequent reapplications, as the new strips are applied to the proximal end (up closer to your cuticle) for continued immobilization.
• Fall off typically occurs less than 5% of the time.
• For those with pain, it can provide immediate relief from acute, ingrown nails with a second strip placed closer to the end of your nail (distally), where it is ingrown and pinching.
• The more chronic pincer nails may also benefit from a distally placed strip. The pain relief is more gradual, but typically occurs within the first month.
• The 2-month mark is when clients often start seeing and feeling a difference.
• It may be applied to an infected ingrown toenail, but usually only after a few days of antibiotics and if comfortable for the client. Drainage and body fluids may hinder and disrupt the bond of the compound however, so it tends to be more effective for non-weeping, ingrown toenails.
• Follow-up in 6 weeks is ideal, in order to clean out debris from the nail groove, giving that extra space for the nail to flatten out. Your skin and nails naturally shed, so even this old debris can crowd that tiny space between your skin and edge of your nail, pushing it inwards.
• If a second strip was placed near the end of your nail (distally), it may need to be re-applied at the 6-week mark.
• If the strip needs to be removed before it falls off, the Foot Care Nurse can use a file or nippers to easily and painlessly remove.

How do I care for this once home?

• You should not go swimming or bath/shower for 24 hours.
• You can use regular nail polish, but no gel or shellack.
• There is no special care after the 24 hours.
• If it does fall off or if there are troubles with it, please contact your Foot Care Nurse.

How much will it cost?

Cost will be $100 per treatment/toe, in addition to the regular fee.

Free replacement if strip falls off before 3 months (or 2/3 the growth length).