Foot Cares Chiropody and Podiatry

13/06/2025

13/06/2025

I woke up feeling very much like this this morning. In my early days of disability I would have tried to force myself to concentrate, to think, to function. Nowadays, I 've learned to step back, address possible causes, and rest before trying again. And I end up doing the task when I'm ready - for a fraction of the energy and stress compared to if I'd 'pushed through', and to a much better standard.

13/06/2025

It’s the only nail varnish I use in clinic, self or daughter for the past 10 years..

Since having an endocrine cancer, I don’t want anymore harmful chemicals that disrupt my endocrine health

Here’s a new article from their website on why your nails may be yellowing

https://www.remedynails.com/blog-january-25-2021.aspx

13/06/2025

📅 11 June 2025 | 6:30–7:30pm
📢 FREE WEBINAR: Avoidable Harm? The Real Impact of Chronic Oedema
🦵 A Legs Matter educational event, in partnership with Haddenham Healthcare
Join us for this interactive live session exploring the preventable harm caused by chronic oedema and how we can take action with early intervention and the right compression choices.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Why ongoing learning is vital
✔️ How the circulatory and lymphatic systems interact
✔️ The real impact of chronic oedema on wound healing
✔️ Staging oedema + why early intervention works
✔️ Compression options—there’s always a solution
🩺 This is a must-attend session for anyone involved in lower limb care.

👉 Register now: https://legsmatter.org/whats-new/free-webinar-avoidable-harm-the-real-impact-of-chronic-oedema/

28/05/2025

What a great picture- art around Eastbourne !

28/04/2025

Yes. 🌺🌈✨

28/04/2025

Have we got anything like this in the UK
?
Life after life changing diagnosis..

A lot of people do come to terms with their new normal

From being a specialist disability social worker to my own thyroid cancer/Ehlers Danlos diagnosis I can say there’s a ‘before and after ‘

Before this I could do a,band c

Now I can’t

How do you cope with your new normal ?
Talking about it ?
NOT talking about it ? ( some people choose avoidant strategies)
And what changes did you make and adjustments that helped ?

When a serious injury changes everything, clear, practical guidance can make all the difference. AIR's Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC) ensures that cutting-edge research reaches the people who need it most, by transforming complex medical findings into easy-to-use fact sheets, videos, and interactive tools. With over 4.1 million visitors across 240 countries, MSKTC is helping individuals regain independence, families navigate recovery, and health care providers deliver better care. Explore the case study: https://www.air.org/resource/case-study/helping-people-recover-and-rebuild-after-life-altering-injuries

28/04/2025

28/04/2025

Well done Winston’s Wish runners
Our Eastbourne Quaker meeting also has a small collection for you this month which they will be forwarding
Winston's Wish - giving hope to grieving children

28/04/2025

If any of my EDS folks are interested

Heavily subsidised at £2 …

I know it’s not about podiatry but health
Breathing and how we hold tension is very important to our whole body energy and I recommend an awareness about Polyvagal systems in my working practice

Webinar: Voice, Breath and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome 🗣️

Join Vocal Coach Imogen Roux for our upcoming webinar, an hour of gentle voice and breath exercises designed to re-connect you to your nervous system. Participants will come away with practical tools to support you in managing your condition in daily life, improving connection to the voice and breath particularly when flaring and de-mystifying what is happening inside the body.

Imogen will touch on common issues such as dysphagia (issues swallowing), dysphonia (“losing” your voice), anxiety and brain fog.

Issues affecting voice, speech and breath are incredibly common and under-reported for hypermobile people. This session is focused on teaching simple specifics that can help you stay connected to your body while in a flare and improve your sense of body awareness in between flare-ups.

Imogen’s specialist hypermobile voice work combines her lived knowledge with the cutting edge of anatomy and physiology. Drawing from over a decade training in voice, anatomy and somatic reintegration, Imogen's work is sharpened by five years of working with scores of people with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS), particularly hypermobile EDS (hEDS).

This workshop is suitable for all people, all ages, all bodies.

The session plan:

– Gentle warm-up to release tension in the body
– Tapping into the nervous system with simple somatic techniques
– Adjustable breath and voice exercises
– The practical work lasts 1 hour, followed by a 30-minute Q+A.

How do I watch the webinar?

This webinar will be hosted on Zoom Webinar. You will receive an email with the details of the Zoom webinar link and passcode after booking.

The webinar registration fee is £2.00 and you can book here: https://shop.ehlers-danlos.org/product/imogen-roux-vocal-coach-with-eds/

This webinar is being recorded. If you would like to watch but cannot attend live, please register for the webinar and after it has aired live, please email info@ehlers-danlos.org who can email you a link to the webinar recording.

Please note, our website can only accept orders with a UK postcode. If you live outside of the UK and would like to join our webinars, please use the following address when registering for a webinar: International House, 45-55 Commercial Street, London, E1 6BD

28/04/2025

While many of () will know about bones and fractures, this article might be helpful either as a revision or for patients.

Shared with full permission

As with all ConsultingFootPain articles, these are free and support the foot health profession and others with an interest in the foot— davidtollafieldauthor.com



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When my wife broke a bone in her foot back in October 2021, no one was more surprised than me. During my career, I have been interested in two facts we all know breaks as fractures.

12/04/2025

Some good ones out there
Pleasure working with them

🎉 Happy National Doctors’ Day!

Today, we celebrate the compassionate, dedicated, and world-changing doctors who are making a difference in the lives of those living with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD).

We are proud to spotlight two extraordinary leaders in our community:

👩‍⚕️ Dr. Clair Francomano
👨‍⚕️ Dr. Alan Hakim

As leads of the EDS ECHO portfolio of programs, they are helping train and empower healthcare professionals across the globe to better understand, diagnose, and manage EDS and HSD. Thanks to their leadership, the EDS ECHO Clinicians program is expanding internationally and creating real change for patients—right in their own communities.

🩺 EDS ECHO programs are virtual, multidisciplinary education programs for healthcare professionals who care for older adolescents and adults with EDS and HSD. By building knowledge and confidence in diagnosis and management, we’re not only improving care today—we’re preventing complications tomorrow.

🌍 With programs running in four global regions, EDS ECHO is creating a ripple effect in clinical care and support, one doctor at a time.

🙏 To all the doctors making a difference, especially those who believe, who listen, and who lead with empathy—thank you.

https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/echo/