About Me
Hello, I’m Joanne, and I work as a receptionist for a podiatry clinic. I’m the person you generally talk to first when you call to make an appointment or come for your first meeting with a podiatrist. In my experience, a lot of people take longer to get up and running with podiatry treatment because they don’t know how to prepare for their first consultation. There are things you can bring with you and things you should be prepared to talk about that can help your podiatrist make a diagnosis more quickly. I started this site to outline some of the dos and don’ts about preparing for your first visit – hope it helps speed up your diagnosis!
2016
5 Tips for Choosing the Right Funeral Director
Funerals are a sensitive business, and it can be difficult to know what to do when it comes to choosing a funeral home. There are a lot of options out there, and this list aims to give you a good place to start. The best funeral directors are easily accessible, organized, and able to comply with all of your requests. A funeral is not something that you should have to compromise on, so choosing the best director for your purposes can help make sure everything runs smoothly.
Dental Implants: The Various Advantages of This Type of Tooth Restoration
Losing a tooth can significantly affect the appearance of your smile. Thus, it is not uncommon to find that some people who have lost their teeth start to become self-conscious about their appearance until they undergo tooth restoration. Although the more common options for tooth restoration include dentures and bridges, these are not the only choices that are available to you. Advancements in technology have provided a more durable alternative in the form of dental implants.
Making This Year the Year That You Finally Quit Smoking
Many people start the new year with the goal of quitting smoking, but often these resolutions fall by the wayside as the year progresses. Getting some extra help from a doctor can be a great way to maximise the chances of this being the year that you do quit smoking for good.
Motivation
Smokers often have higher blood pressure and lower lung capacity than non-smokers. A doctor can give you an honest health assessment and can show you how your health is going compared to other people of the same age and background.
Try These 4 Simple Physio Exercises for Your Frozen Shoulder
Activities such as overhead lifting of weights and freestyle swimming can lead to cases of a frozen shoulder. A frozen shoulder is usually characterised by pain, stiffness, and a limited movement of the shoulder, all of which can be very discomforting. Sometimes a frozen shoulder may heal on its own after some time, especially if it was caused by inflammation following an injury. However, leaving your frozen shoulder unattended may be the birth of other serious problems.
Looking after your sexual health
Having sex can be a fantastic way to have fun and physically illustrate your love for your partner. However, as we're ideally taught early on, sexual intercourse does carry some risks. The rate of sexual transmitted infections, commonly known as STIs, continue to remain high in Australia, with many people being diagnosed with common diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and others, as well as more serious diseases like HIV, every year.
Five Signs You May Need a Hearing Aid
According to the Australian Network on Disability, 1 in 6 Australians are affected by hearing loss. Hearing loss can creep up on people with a decline so gradual its increments are difficult to recognise. Being aware of hearing loss and being fitted with the appropriate hearing aids can drastically improve the quality of life of someone with difficulty hearing. To help you recognise hearing loss, here are five signs that could signal that you may be in need of a hearing aid.
Tips On Bathing and Showering Following Hip Replacement Surgery
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.
What You Need to Do After the First Stage of a Dental Implant
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.
Private home care for amputees
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.
A Spoonful of Compounding Services Helps the Medicine go Down
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.