Podiatry Appointment Preparation Tips

Your orthopaedic surgeons will give you advice on how to look after your new hip following hip replacement surgery, but you may still be concerned about looking after yourself once you get home from hospital.  For instance, how can you go about taking a bath or shower safely?  Read on for some helpful advice. If you have to use a bath tub for bathing and washing, you will need to have someone to help you. [Read More]

Dental implants are a remarkable way to replace missing teeth, but it's important to remember that the process is not immediate. The actual implant is a small screw, generally made of titanium (due to the material's biocompatible nature). This screw is implanted into your jaw bone, and then a process known as osseointegration takes place. This is when your jaw bone essentially fuses to the titanium screw to secure it into place. [Read More]

For people who have needed to have an amputation, there is often a large period of adjustment in working out how to perform day-to-day tasks again. Younger amputees, such as vehicles accidents, cancer victims or military personnel, often want to live at home rather than moving into a nursing home or assisted living facility.  Here are some ways that private home care can help amputees.  Wound healing Straight after the amputation, there is a period where there is a wound that needs to be regularly redressed and the wound monitored. [Read More]

If you are allergic to particular ingredients within a medicine or struggle to take pills orally, then your doctor may be required to approach your local pharmaceutical company and request the use of their compounding services. This is a service that requires additional training for individual pharmacists but allows them to create tailored medicines for individual patients to increase the effectiveness and digestibility of the medicine. It is one of the oldest aspects of creating medicine stretching back thousands of years and is still an important part of medical development, yet compounding is growing less common because of the additional training required. [Read More]