Foot Wart

Wart Treatment

If you have a wart it is most likely that you will have caught it from a communal floor such as a swimming pool or changing room but it could just as easily have been at home or on holiday.

Methods Used in the Treatment of Warts:

Chemical Treatment

  • Most common treatment method used
  • Salicylic acid is the acid of choice
  • The acid causes peeling of skin
  • The podiatrist will also cut skin with his scalpel
  • This method can become very expensive due to frequent consults

Cold Treatment

  • Liquid Nitrogen is commonly used
  • Multiple applications may be necessary.
  • Follow up weekly for cryotherapy treatments until the wart resolves.
  • Can be painful as it is designed to destroy dermal tissues.
  • Redness and blistering of skin may develop.

Electro-Cautery

  • Remove a wart using electricity
  • Contra-indicated when patient has a pacemaker
  • Leaves a wound that takes 1 - 6 weeks to heal
  • May need to be treated more than once
  • Can be very painful

Other

This is methods like laser and Chemotherapy

Preferred Method in this Practice - Falknor Method/ Dry-needling

Dry-needling Procedure

During the treatment the goal is to cause an immune response

Local anaesthetic is used in this procedure

  • Please do not use any anti-inflammatory medication
  • This is contra indicated in this treatment

The way dry needling works is to push verruca cells from the epidermis through into the dermis and hypodermis or adipose layer thereby inoculating the underlying tissue

This triggers an immune response, the appropriate antibodies are produced

Dry-needling result after one treatment

Dry-needling Result

Over the subsequent weeks the verruca undergoes a natural deterioration before ultimately disappearing.

Foot Heal