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Understanding Chiropodists
If a person has a problem with his feet, lower leg or ankle, may it be a general issue or a serious issue; he will have to visit a doctor. A doctor whose specialty is the lower leg is known as a chiropodist. Chiropody is the study of the various possible ways to treat the lower leg in different cases. The Brits coined the term chiropodist. It literally means a person who fixes problems with the legs and the hands. The modern chiropodists deal with the legs only.
They deal with the smallest factor like ingrown nails or normal nails clipping, removing of corns and calluses, helping any wound to heal, removing foreign particles that have got in due to lack of personal hygiene etc. They even deal with more serious cases where a persons foot or some parts of the feet are missing, or even if the bone or the ankle are dislocated or disfigured etc.
