Our condition of the month for March 2024 is ingrowing toenails! Ingrowing toenails (onychocryptosis or unguis incarnates) is caused by the edge of the nail impinging or piercing the surrounding skin. Research suggests that 80% of ingrowing toenail cases occur on the big toe (6). The pressure on or puncture to the skin can become […]
Author Archive | Nicola Blower
Condition of the month: Verruca
Our condition of the month for February is Verruca! Also known as plantar warts, verruca plantaris or verruca pedis, verrucae are caused by an infection of the top layers of skin by the human papilloma virus (HPV). There are over 100 varieties of HPV, some of which can cause more serious conditions such as cervical […]
Podiatrist Kayleigh Aldred joins Walkrite
Podiatrist Kayleigh Aldred BSc(Hons) has joined our team here at Walkrite. She started in clinic on 2nd January 2024 and has already been a great asset to the team. Kayleigh graduated with a 1st Class Degree in Podiatry from Northampton University in 2023 but, prior to that, spent 13 years in the RAF where she […]
Christmas & New Year Opening Times 2023 – 2024
We’re taking a break! The clinic will be closed for the Christmas break from Saturday 23rd December and will re-open on Tuesday 2nd January 2024. We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of our patients, referrers and friends of Walkrite the best for the Christmas period and for the start of another year. […]
Walkrite patients’ attempted trek to Everest basecamp successful!
Walkrite patients, the Jayaswal family (Vikash and Madhurita and their children Tarranum (14) and Vivaan (10)), undertook a mighty challenge to trek to Everest Basecamp to raise money for the school they have founded in India to educate underprivileged children. They did this in recognition of the importance of education in a child’s life and […]
We’re growing our team!
We’re really excited to announce that we are growing our team! Hopefully we are going to be joined by another Podiatrist in January 2024. For now, we can’t announce all the details, but we are very excited to be welcoming them onboard and know that they are going to be an excellent addition to the […]
Podiatrists in sport – the future is bright!
It was a real pleasure to contribute to this edition of BASEM Today (read full supplement here) which focused on the role of Allied Health Professions (AHP’s) in Sport & Exercise Medicine (SEM). There are 14 AHP’s as recognised by the NHS and Podiatry is one of them. Other examples are Physiotherapy, Dieticians and Osteopaths […]
Lift more, move more, live longer!
We regularly work with patients of all ages using weights to strengthen as part of their rehab. The latest research in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, confirms the positive impact of weight-training on better long-term health. When strength training twice a week was combined with meeting cardio-vascular exercise targets, the risk of premature death […]
Success! We ran the London Marathon in 2022 and raised £3075.40 for Hospice UK!
Why? In 2016, Jean Blower, the mother of Podiatrist and Co-Director, Nicola Blower, passed away as a result of bowel cancer. Nicola’s Mum was looked after brilliantly in her final moments by a Hospice in Lancashire. Hospices provide a very much needed aspect of end of life care when people are too ill to be […]
Face masks no longer required in clinic
Today marked the final day that our patients and staff wore face masks. From tomorrow, 31st May 2022, face masks will no longer be required in clinic. This is a milestone after 2 years of restrictions, but we know not everyone will feel 100% comfortable once face masks are no longer required. For patients who […]