Open to podiatrists ONLY. This is a practical training course using cadaver foot and ankle.
Whilst the majority of cases of onychocryptosis can be successfully dealt with by either conservative means or phenol ablation and alternative methods of matrical ablation including laser, there remain the recalcitrant cases. Frequently, profound granuloma can become organised leading to repetitive penetration of the nail margin, hence chronic onychocryptosis. Classically, this would be treated in a hospital under a general anaesthetic and required an overnight stay.
Although the Care Quality Commission have approved incisional nail surgery carried out by suitably qualified podiatrists in their own practices, traditionally, the only way to learn the techniques has been for the practitioner to attach themselves to a colleague already utilising the procedures.
Now the Institute of Podiatrists is proud to offer a ‘hands-on’ course using fresh human cadaveric feet.
The course will include lectures, and demonstrations, will deal with consent, pre and post-operative information and will be heavily weighted to practical experience of techniques, incision placement and suturing.
Course Schedule
09.00 Registration and coffee
09.15 Course opening
09.30 Nail Anatomy and Pathology (rapid PowerPoint with particular reference to IGT)
10.00 Revision of LA and Antibiotic Tx
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Suture science including different materials, techniques demonstration via CC TV
11.30 Practical suture practice on gauze / analogues by students , supervised
12.30 Incisional nail surgery techniques, discussion, demonstration by tutor on Cadaver
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Incision and Closure student practice on Cadavers, supervised
16.00 Post operative dressings and care
16.30 Q&A, Certification and optional reflective logbooks
Course tutors
Bill Liggins trained at the Birmingham School of Chiropody and started his career as a private practitioner, additionally carrying out sessions in the Midlands NHS. Now a retired Consultant Podiatric Surgeon, Bill is a qualified teacher and has lectured widely on many subjects including local anaesthesia, nationally and internationally, particularly to Institute members but also to medical organisations.
Martin Harvey is a consultant Podiatrist at two Birmingham Hospitals dealing with both NHS and private patients. He also has a background in specialist NHS high risk podiatry clinics as well as having his own private podiatry practice in the West Midlands. He is a keen educator lecturing and teaching on specialist subjects to Podiatrists in the UK and abroad including having presented in mainland Europe and Canada.
This is an exciting, interactive day that incorporates a number of very practical modalities to enable you to offer your patients the very best possible conservative treatments.
This course aims to create a comprehensive understanding of the application of tapes, paddings, chairside orthotics and therapeutic ultrasound, enabling you to successfully advance your skills and scope of practice. Conditions such as plantar fasciitis, capsulitis, hallux abductovalgus etc will be discussed, and you will be taught how to confidently use the techniques through demonstration and hands on application.
All course attendees will be shown how to correctly and confidently use a therapeutic ultrasound machine to ease patient discomfort for a variety of conditions. The course fee includes a new device (rrp £109) for all attendees, meaning you can begin treatments straight away.
Replaceable padding and chairside orthotics – how to pad shoe inserts instead of foot, how to make replaceable pads for patients. Metatarsal pads for fat pad atrophy
12.15 – Lunch
1pm – Demo therapeutic ultrasound and advice on use
Gaynor Wooldridge, is a consultant podiatrist working within a multidisciplinary clinic in Kent. She has a passion and commitment to the field of foot health, with special interests in research, injection therapies, wound care and diabetes. She is a great believer that continuing professional development is central to the ‘lifelong learning’ approach so vital within healthcare.
Lunch, refreshments and therapeutic ultrasound device included.
Diabetes Professional Care 15-16 October 2024, Olympia London
Bringing together 3,000+ healthcare professionals, Diabetes Professional Care is the UK’s leading event for the entire multi-disciplinary team involved in preventing, treating and managing diabetes and its related conditions.
Explore a holistic approach to optimising the complete patient pathway in diabetes care. Join us on 15-16 October at Olympia London for insightful case studies, key clinical and policy updates, cutting-edge developments in treatments and technologies, and compelling patient stories on their unique journeys.
You’ll discover ways to foster collaboration across the spectrum of care and improve the quality of life and outcomes for people living with diabetes.
Why attend?
Foster collaboration among healthcare professionals and take a comprehensive end-to-end view of the entire patient pathway, developing your knowledge of a holistic approach to treating and managing diabetes.
Join the dedicated Foot and Wound Clinic and gain practical learning that you can apply in your practice immediately, covering the latest techniques, priorities, and technologies aimed at reducing complications and improving outcomes for patients.
Advance your skills in hands-on training in the Foot and Wound Clinic.
Immerse yourself in the comprehensive CPD-certified conference programme, covering critical policy updates, patient management strategies, advanced treatments, cutting-edge technologies, and much more.
Hear new advice and techniques for effectively communicating with patients, building rapport, and empowering them to take control of their diabetes care.
Engage in discussions in outcome-orientated sessions designed to provide tangible takeaways that you can apply in your practice immediately.
Hear insightful case studies involving unique patient challenges and better understand specific requirements of different patients and how they are supported by other functions.
Discover new suppliers showcasing the latest products and services for diabetes care, and find new resources available to patients.
Create new connections and share your experiences with peers across the spectrum of diabetes care.
Diabetes Professional Care is free to attend for registered healthcare professionals, allied health professionals, and Other Relevant Decision Makers (ORDMs) working for the NHS or in a private healthcare setting. Other applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Passes are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so we strongly recommend registering as soon as possible to secure your pass.
This one day introduction to foot reflexology will cover the fascinating roots of reflexology, what it is and how it can benefit your patients. We will discuss how this therapy helps to relax the body, restore balance/ homeostasis and help stimulate the natural healing process.
Most of this day’s course will be spent ‘hands-on’, learning how to confidently complete a reflexology treatment, mastering the techniques and in recognizing how points on the feet correspond to organs within the body. Attendees will be practicing the techniques on one another.
The day will follow the Eunice Ingham method of reflexology.
Prior to the course all students will be given a copy of Reflexology – A concise guide to foot and hand massage by Rosalind Oxenford as part of the pre-course reading.
Course Schedule
9.45am: Welcome and refreshments
10am: Student and tutor introductions
10.30am: Reflexology history, what is it and incorporating it into your practice
11.15: Break
11.30: Observing a reflexology treatment
12.15pm: lunch
1pm: Techniques – thumb walking
1.15pm – 2.30pm: Student practical’s.
2.30pm: Short comfort break
2.45pm: Student practical’s
3.30: Q&A, Certification
4pm: Close
Tutor
Gaynor Wooldridge, is a consultant podiatrist working within a multidisciplinary clinic in Kent. She has a passion and commitment to the field of foot health, with special interests in research, injection therapies, wound care and diabetes. She is a great believer that continuing professional development is central to the ‘lifelong learning’ approach so vital within healthcare.
Gaynor is an experienced reflexologist. 1992-1993: Diploma in Reflexology (Association of Reflexologists). Designed and delivered A and P and Reflexology VTEC and BTEC certificate – 1995: BTEC assessor award 1995-1997: Maidstone and Medway campus.
For all registered HCPC Podiatrists with POM-A. Max. 10 delegates
Steroid injections are designed to give temporary relief to musculoskeletal sprains and strains of the lower limb as well as help to relieve acute episodes of inflammatory pain in joints and the tissue surrounding them in the foot and the lower leg. Steroid injections are also suitable for specific conditions such as Morton’s neuroma, which can be given temporary relief.
Delegates will learn when to, and how to, administer steroid injections for the benefit of their patients. It is essential that as clinical professionals you fully understand the contraindications of such injections and when not to administer.
New, in addition to Steroid Injection training delegates will learn alternatives for those who are unable to receive steroid injections. Such alternatives include Viscosupplements.
Viscosupplementation is a hyaluronic acid, a gel-like fluid, that is injected into a joint to relieve conditions such as osteoarthritis. Hyaluronic acid is a natural substance that lubricates a joint thus reducing friction. Unlike a steroid injection which relieves inflammation of peripheral joints, viscosupplements seek to reestablish the elasticity and viscosity of the joint’s normal synovial fluids. Viscosupplements are fully available to all podiatrists.
The course will focus on the viscosupplemet range Ostenil from TRB Chemedica. TRB Chemedica specialise in biosynthetic Sodium Hyaluronate products: OSTENIL®, OSTENIL® MINI, and OSTENIL® PLUS which are all intra-articular injectable preparations of Sodium Hyaluronate for the treatment of degenerative joint disease. OSTENIL® TENDON, a visco-elastic solution for peritendinous or intrasheath injection, is designed to restore tendon function by reducing pain and enhancing tendon gliding.
Tutor
Martin Harvey, PGCert, BSc, MInstCHP, MCPodS, has been at the forefront of developing and promoting soft tissue injection therapy in UK Podiatry for more than a decade, using prolotherapy, hyaluronic acid dermal fillers and botulinum toxins. As one of the very early supplementary prescribers in UK podiatry, he was closely involved in developing independent prescribing, working with the Department of Health and the National Prescribing Centre on a single national prescribing framework. As a very experienced Independent Prescriber, he shares his detailed pharmacological understanding in a readily comprehensible fashion that helps delegates to gain the effective knowledge they require to be safe and effective users of these potent steroid agents. In addition to his busy hospital consultancies he also currently serves on the Department of Health working party on extending controlled drugs prescribing rights for podiatrist prescribers and NHS education England’s Foot Health Consortium leaders’ group.
POCUS, Point-Of-Care Ultra Sound is becoming ever more popular in Healthcare. In Podiatry its usefulness can in many ways be compared to the Vascular Doppler Ultrasound which nowadays most podiatry clinics regard as an essential tool and which is almost universal. POCUS is a point of care diagnostic tool to assist you in gathering the information that you require at the point of you delivering such care or assist you in deciding upon making an appropriate referral. It can give you information in the same way that a vascular doppler, or a Semmes-Weinstein 10g monofilament or a 128 Hz tuning fork, or a Buergers test can. POCUS aid’s your treatment decisions in cases of suspected neuromas, fractures, tendon, ligament and MSK pathologies, epidermoid cysts, arthropathies and so many other encountered scenarios in your clinics.
Cart-based high power machines are exceptionally useful in specialised clinics, but lack the ready usability of the increasing available number of portable (some pocket-sized) ultrasound probes that utilise either smart phones or tablets as the viewing screen. The probes connect to phone, tablet or iPad by either USB / Lightening connector or Wi-Fi depending on the machines make.,
The virtue of POCUS machines is their relative simplicity of operation compared to that of cart-based wired machines. Many portable POCUS machines have a good selection of pre-configured settings for MSK, vascular, colour, power doppler, guided injections and numerous other day-to-day applications. User- operated settings on such machines, where needed, are virtually all onscreen and easily comprehensible and usable after a surprisingly modest amount of training. Increasingly, the prices of such POCUS devices are now similar to the cost of a quality autoclave, making them a truly viable purchase option in all levels of general practice.
The IoP, utilising the advice of leading POCUS advocates, authors and trainers in general and emergency medicine, has produced a course that combines initial theoretical online e-Learning, an intensive, invaluable ‘hands-on’ practical day under the guidance of expert POCUS tutors, and required completion of a six procedure short post-practical reflective analysis log to rapidly bring delegates to the required standard to commence immediate use of POCUS in their own practices.
This course is designed to give an appropriate understanding of the basic theory and technology applying to Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) devices which tend to be hand portable and either wired or wireless and operating at more limited frequencies than will be utilised in specialised clinics that are necessarily staffed and operated by highly trained Sonographers and Radiologists who undergo many years of training and experience to be able to provide a systematic structured assessment. It is purposely designed to not be brand-specific and whilst mentioning and utilising different makes, it in no way is designed to sell or promote one particular brand/product.
The course utilises as a handbook (provided); ‘Ultrasound For The Generalist’ edited by Dr Sarb Clare MBE and Dr Chris Duncan who describe POCUS as: ‘the use of ultrasound to answer key clinical questions that have been guided by the conventional history ‘ and who go on to state ‘It is an invaluable tool in the arsenal of general clinicians and can avoid unnecessary delay in the confirmation and identification of pathology’
Course delegates will complete a full hands-on practical day, utilising various machines, to practice image recognition, identifying important structures and conditions such as:
Tendons
Ligaments
Nerves
Tissue calcification
Arthropies
Neuromas
Course Tutors
Martin is a Consultant Podiatrist, he has two clinics in Birmingham, one at hospital dealing with NHS secondary care referrals and a private consulting clinic . When extended medicines use became possible in podiatry, he qualified as one of the very early supplementary prescribers and subsequently worked on the Department of Health independent prescribing project a few years later which successfully developed independent prescribing for Podiatrists and Physiotherapists, as well as the NICE single prescribing framework project. He is passionate about maximising medicines access and use in podiatry. A special interest for a number of years has been injection therapies which he firmly maintains are grossly underused in both NHS and independent general practice podiatry. As director of education for the Institute of Podiatrists he uses the opportunity of that platform to share his passions about the foregoing.
Each course delegate will receive a copy of ‘Ultrasound for the generalist, a guide to point of care ultrasound’ Dr Sarb Clare, that will form part of the pre-practical reading.
CPD and accreditation; Delegates will be asked to complete a brief reflective logbook of six POCUS examinations carried out after the course, sending an anonymised copy to the education department for constructive review by a faculty member will generate a ‘part 2’ certificate in addition to the ‘part 1’ which will be issued once the pre-course theory (online) and the practical workshop day have been attended.
This course will be held at the postgraduate education centre, City Hospital, Nottingham. Cadaver foot and ankle models will be used.
Lunch is provided on the practical training day.
CQC registration is NOT required for the use of POCUS. This course is accredited by The Institute of Podiatrists and is covered by the Institutes insurance.
This Podiatric Acupuncture course is open to all HCPC registered podiatrists, chiropodists, physiotherapists, doctors, nurses, chiropractors
Max. 10 delegates
This 1-day highly intensive training course is based on Western principles of acupuncture, often called dry needling. Course delegates will learn when and how to confidently utilise this procedure.
Podiatrists may use acupuncture as a stand-alone treatment or in combination with other modalities, symptoms associated with musculoskeletal disorders, neurological disorders and circulatory disorders can all benefit from acupuncture treatment.
Common conditions that can benefit from podiatric acupuncture treatment include:
plantar fasciitis
Achilles tendon injuries
shin ‘splints’
calf cramping
arthritic joint pain as well as neuropathic pain, neuromas, and ulcers
Course Tutor
Somuz Miah, CFPodM, BSc (PodM), Dip Sp.I, PGC IP, MFPM RCPS (Glasg), is a qualified Sports Practitioner & Podiatrist (Diploma Sports injuries & Electro Therapy). He qualified in medical acupuncture 11 years ago. He has been practising podiatry for over 24 years. Somuz is a Consultant Podiatrist Prescriber & Member of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons Glasgow.
This course is accredited by The Institute of Podiatrists. All course delegates will receive a copy of the book ‘Foundation in Medical Acupuncture: Evidence-Based Manual of Acupuncture Points’ as course pre-reading and will be provided with CPD certification and a box of acupuncture needles on successful completion of the course.
Approved by The Institute of Chiropodists and Podiatrists since 2018
This is a Post Registration ‘M’ Level programme in Diabetology for Podiatrists and Health Care Professionals, organised since September 1996, continually updated to meet the clinical needs of patients and to demonstrate the evolving treatment modalities available.
The course comprises of 26 lecturers. Because of the expanding knowledge base this programme is delivered over 5 days.
The aim of the course is to provide podiatrists and health professionals with the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the underlying causes of diabetes and managing the diabetic patient.
Monday
Dr Matthew Young, Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
AM Introduction and course details, followed by Dr M Young, General Diabetes. In depth, the disease, it’s impact, types, causation, side effects, and treatments
PM The Foot in Diabetes
Tuesday
AM The diabetic foot attack, In patient hospital management of diabetic patients, The neuropathic patient (Neuropathy and its diagnosis and management)
PM Dietary advice for the diabetic patient, Wound infection identification of microbes, Antibiotic anti microbial therapy, Interventional radiology
Wednesday
AM Vascular surgery for the diabetic patient, the Charcot foot, staging diabetic feet management
PM The psychological aspects of diabetes, Podiatric surgery for the diabetic patient, International guidelines, Casting lecture/demonstration
Thursday
AM Orthopaedic management of the diabetic limb, IN patient podiatry clinics, Management off loading strategies, Ward treatments in an acute setting, new treatments, wound management
PM Research developing your skills, Vascular surgery for the diabetic patient, Interactive case studies , Group work, The diabetic foot, harnessing your skills/ applying to your patients
Friday
Viva Voce Examination
Patient interview
Designed for hospital clinical staff.
This 2-day, onsite course at your clinic or Hospital, will provide delegates with a comprehensive understanding of reasons for, and the safe application of, routine footcare within a healthcare setting. The course will focus on a wide variety of patient types including the elderly, vulnerable and health compromised.
Maximum number for training 16.
Course syllabus:
Day 1. Presentations and demonstrations
Introducing the structure and functions of the foot
Common foot problems and routine treatments
Tools of the trade
Special cases -The ageing foot
Special cases – The diabetic foot
Special cases – The oedematous foot
Day 2 Demonstrations and hands-on guided/supervised practical
Assessing and identifying the at-risk foot
Assessing the at-risk foot
Care and management plans
General on-site care
Inclusive of:
24 sets of sterile single-use podiatry instrument sets
Sterile field packs as required, standard preoperative hygiene agents
Assessment tools – per Tutor – as required to include monofilament set, doppler, 128Hz vibration testing tools etc
Tutors
Tutors will be currently registered Podiatrists and QCF trained educators. The course is validated by the Institute of Podiatrists (IoP) a national professional body recognised by the Health and Care Professions Council and NHS Health Education England, established in 1938.
All enquiries toinfo@iop-uk.org or by telephone 01704 546 141
Anyone involved in foot health should be aware of how to accurately assess a diabetic foot and understand the ways in which the foots health can be maintained or improved and also how and when people with identified issues/complications should be directed to specialist services.
This one day course will discuss the specific risks and complications of diabetes related to foot health, such as foot ulcers, neuropathy and amputation. The course will discuss real case scenarios and complications.
Delegates will gain hand-on practice in assessing the diabetic foot and become confident in the use of a variety of tests including; temperature sensation, Dermastat test and medical thermology.
Delegates will gain practical competence and confidence in the correct use of hand-held dopplers, and how to interpret the doppler examination results.
You will be able to put these skills into practice immediately, to the benefit of your own clients as well as substantially increasing the services you can legitimately offer.
Course Schedule
9.30am – Registration and Refreshments
10am – The Diabetic foot
12.30pm – Lunch
1.15pm – Practical assessments and testing
3.30pm – Q&A, feedback, certification
4pm – Close
Course Tutor
Somuz Miah is a Consultant Podiatrist Prescriber with over 24 years’ experience specialising in a variety of treatments for the lower limb. Somuz is a highly established educator within podiatry and foot health holding qualifications in ‘Certificate Teaching Skill Evidence Based Medicine’, and ‘Level 3 Award in Education & Training Certification’ and additional training qualifications in OFQUAL and SQA for safeguarding children and adults, first aid, anaphylaxis and oxygen.
