Dubai Podiatry Centre today announced an initiative to recruit additional experienced Podiatrists to join their team in Dubai. Dubai Podiatry Centre, a renowned foot and ankle clinic in the UAE, has been experiencing continued rapid growth and demand for its services, due to increasing population growth in the UAE, positive economic outlook and greater awareness of foot and ankle health and the role of Podiatrists in treating foot, ankle and leg disorders.
Strong Growth in Demand for Podiatrists in the Middle East
Podiatry is the field of medicine focusing on the care and treatment of the toes, feet, ankles, knees, legs and hips, a field of healthcare which is exhibiting growing demand amongst the population of the UAE and the Middle East generally. Podiatrists are highly specialised allied healthcare professionals, who treat a range of lower limb issues such as ingrowing toenails, verrucas, fungal infections and biomechanical anomalies such as ‘flat feet’ and heel pain.
Podiatrists also assess and care for diabetic feet, from annual routine assessments to ulcer care. Dubai Podiatry Centre is a unique specialist clinic in the region to focus only on the leg, foot and ankle. It is the only provider of corrective bespoke prescription orthotic therapy, addressing biomechanical issues such as over-pronation and collapsed medial long arches of the feet, an issue which appears to be more prevalent in the region.
With a range of other foot health issues such as fungal skin and nail infections, verruca infections, biomechanical anomalies and diabetes foot care/management also common in the region, the need for highly trained, experienced Podiatrists to address these is high.
Dubai Podiatry Centre is the region’s leading specialist foot clinic with a reputation for advanced patient-centred therapy and skilled, caring professionals. As part of the Clinic’s commitment to efficient and timely treatment for its patients the Clinic is seeking Podiatrists to join their team to cope with the growth in demand for qualified, specialist Podiatric care and reduce waiting time for appointments. Previous team members have joined from as far afield as Scotland and Australia, with the Clinic keen to recruit only the finest in the field worldwide. The dynamic, vibrant city life, tax free lifestyle and safe, low-crime and sunny environment also tend to be strong draws for candidates keen to relocate to Dubai.
Podiatrist Requirements
Founder and Chief Podiatrist Michelle Champlin says “We have built an excellent reputation in the region for high quality and advanced therapies for our patients, and we’re excited to invite suitably qualified and skilled Podiatrists to join our team in this thriving city. Not only are we looking for appropriately qualified Podiatrists, they must be genuinely enthusiastic about the field of Podiatry and be keen to continue Dubai Podiatry Centre’s ethos of going the extra mile for patients.” Due to the Clinic’s reputation as an outstanding provider of custom orthotic therapy for both children and adults, it is vital that every member of the Podiatric team has a strong interest and in-depth understanding of biomechanics.
How to Apply
Dubai Podiatry Centre is looking to recruit degree qualified Podiatrists with a minimum of 2 years post graduate experience. Experience in both public and private practice is preferred. Excellent communication skills and a strong understanding of biomechanics and sporting injuries are vital. Successful candidates benefit from a competitive tax free salary, private health insurance and annual return air ticket is offered to successful post holders. Dubai Podiatry Centre will sponsor the candidate’s employment visa and forward candidate for appropriate health licensing in Dubai. Candidates should apply directly in writing with a detailed CV and covering letter via the recruitment contact details on the Dubai Podiatry Centre website.
حملة توظيف لتلبية الطلب المتزايد على الرعاية الصحية للقدمين في المنطقة
أعلن مركز دبي للعناية بالاقدام اليوم عن مبادرة لتوظيف المزيد من أطباء الأقدام ذوي الخبرة للانضمام إلى فريقهم في دبي. يشهد مركز دبي لعلاج الأقدام، وهو عيادة مشهورة للقدم والكاحل في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، نموًا سريعًا مستمرًا وطلبًا على خدماته، وذلك بسبب النمو السكاني المتزايد في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، والتوقعات الاقتصادية الإيجابية وزيادة الوعي بصحة القدم والكاحل ودور أطباء الأقدام في علاج اضطرابات القدم والكاحل والساق.
نمو قوي في الطلب على أطباء الأطفال في الشرق الأوسط
طب الأقدام هو مجال الطب الذي يركز على رعاية وعلاج أصابع القدمين والقدمين والكاحلين والركبتين والساقين والوركين، وهو مجال من مجالات الرعاية الصحية الذي يشهد طلبًا متزايدًا بين سكان دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة والشرق الأوسط بشكل عام. أطباء الأقدام هم متخصصون في الرعاية الصحية المساندة على درجة عالية من التخصص، ويعالجون مجموعة من مشكلات الأطراف السفلية مثل أظافر القدم النامية، والثآليل، والالتهابات الفطرية، والشذوذات الميكانيكية الحيوية مثل “الأقدام المسطحة” وآلام الكعب.
يقوم أطباء الأقدام أيضًا بتقييم ورعاية القدم المصابة بالسكري، بدءًا من التقييمات الروتينية السنوية وحتى رعاية القرحة. مركزمركز دبي للعناية بالاقدام هو عيادة متخصصة فريدة من نوعها في المنطقة تركز فقط على الساق والقدم والكاحل. وهي المزود الوحيد للعلاج التصحيحي لتقويم العظام بوصفة طبية، حيث يعالج المشكلات الميكانيكية الحيوية مثل الكب الزائد وانهيار الأقواس الطويلة المتوسطة للقدم، وهي مشكلة يبدو أنها أكثر انتشارًا في المنطقة.
ومع وجود مجموعة من المشكلات الأخرى المتعلقة بصحة القدم، مثل التهابات الجلد الفطرية والأظافر، والتهابات الثؤلول، والشذوذات الميكانيكية الحيوية، ورعاية/إدارة القدم السكرية الشائعة أيضًا في المنطقة، فإن هناك حاجة كبيرة إلى أطباء أقدام مدربين تدريبًا عاليًا وذوي خبرة لمعالجة هذه المشكلات.
مركز دبي للعناية بالاقدام هو عيادة القدم المتخصصة الرائدة في المنطقة ويتمتع بسمعة طيبة في العلاج المتقدم الذي يركز على المريض والمهنيين المهرة والرعاية. كجزء من التزام العيادة بالعلاج الفعال وفي الوقت المناسب لمرضاها، تسعى العيادة إلى أطباء الأقدام للانضمام إلى فريقهم للتعامل مع النمو في الطلب على رعاية الأرجل المؤهلة والمتخصصة وتقليل وقت الانتظار للمواعيد. انضم أعضاء الفريق السابقون من مناطق بعيدة مثل اسكتلندا وأستراليا، مع حرص العيادة على توظيف الأفضل في هذا المجال في جميع أنحاء العالم. كما أن الحياة الديناميكية والنابضة بالحياة في المدينة وأسلوب الحياة المعفي من الضرائب والبيئة الآمنة ومنخفضة الجريمة والمشمسة تميل أيضًا إلى أن تكون عوامل جذب قوية للمرشحين الحريصين على الانتقال إلى دبي.
متطلبات طبيب الأقدام
تقول المؤسس ورئيسة أطباء الأقدام ميشيل شامبلين: “لقد بنينا سمعة ممتازة في المنطقة من خلال تقديم علاجات عالية الجودة ومتقدمة لمرضانا، ونحن متحمسون لدعوة أطباء الأقدام المؤهلين والمهرة للانضمام إلى فريقنا في هذه المدينة المزدهرة. نحن لا نبحث فقط عن أطباء أقدام مؤهلين بشكل مناسب، بل يجب أن يكونوا متحمسين حقًا لمجال طب الأقدام وأن يكونوا حريصين على مواصلة روح مركز دبي لطب الأقدام المتمثلة في بذل جهود إضافية للمرضى. نظرًا لسمعة العيادة باعتبارها مزودًا متميزًا للعلاج التقويمي المخصص لكل من الأطفال والبالغين، فمن الضروري أن يتمتع كل عضو في فريق طب الأقدام باهتمام قوي وفهم متعمق للميكانيكا الحيوية.
كيفية التقديم
يتطلع مركز دبي للعناية بالاقدام إلى توظيف أطباء أقدام مؤهلين بدرجة علمية مع خبرة لا تقل عن سنتين بعد التخرج. يفضل الخبرة في الممارسة العامة والخاصة. تعد مهارات الاتصال الممتازة والفهم القوي للميكانيكا الحيوية والإصابات الرياضية أمرًا حيويًا. يستفيد المرشحون الناجحون من راتب تنافسي معفى من الضرائب، ويتم تقديم التأمين الصحي الخاص وتذكرة طيران ذهاب وعودة سنوية لحاملي الوظائف الناجحين. سيقوم مركز دبي لعلاج الأقدام برعاية تأشيرة عمل المرشح والمرشح المتقدم للحصول على الترخيص الصحي المناسب في دبي. يجب على المرشحين التقدم مباشرة كتابيًا مع سيرة ذاتية مفصلة وخطاب تقديمي عبر تفاصيل الاتصال الخاصة بالتوظيف على الموقع الإلكتروني لمركز دبي للعناية بالاقدام .
Written by Michelle Champlin BSc Pod., M.Ch.S., S.R., Ch., (UK)
Your feet are designed to do two main jobs – provide stability and mobility. They keep us stable and upright and act also as a lever to help propel us forward. They absorb shock and carry us forward at different paces (or ‘gaits’) from walking to sprinting.
In cycling, your foot (in conjunction with a high quality, rigid, well-fitting shoe) needs to act more as a rigid lever.
Custom orthotics and cycling
Orthotics or insoles for cycling are very different than those for walking, running or other sports. A cycling orthotic will be very rigid, as the aim is to lock the foot into place, with the ankle and knee in straight alignment. When there is too much movement in the foot, the intrinsic muscles of the foot have to ‘waste’ energy working to keep the foot in position. Therefore, when your leg is in the correct alignment, with your foot locked in place, you minimize leakage of energy and power. Thus, your energy is efficiently focused on transferring into power through your pedal.
How Dubai Podiatry Centre works with Cyclists
We not only want to maximize your performance with minimizing wasted movement and ensuring good leg alignment and rigid foot posture, we also want to minimize the risk of injury.
Cycling injuries to the foot that we most commonly see are either ‘hot spot’ injuries such as blisters from ill fitting shoes creating friction or compression type injuries damaging the nerves of the feet, commonly across the widest part of your foot, the forefoot or ‘ball’. This tends to be a combination of factors such as too tight cycling shoes, ill fitting cleats, and pressure from the narrow pedal through a thin sole.
To address and avoid these issues, cyclists will be looking to customize their bike to ensure optimum bike fit for their body, high quality well fitting cycling shoes and perhaps a custom orthotic to replace the existing insole that is provided with the shoe. Here, we’l look at how podiatrists in particular can help with the area of foot/leg alignment improvement and footwear related issues.
When walking, we have three main stages of gait – heel strike, into a mid-foot stance and finally toe-off. When cycling, our foot most closely resembles the ‘mid-foot’ type stance. When mid-foot, this is when the foot is most unstable and ligaments loosest, to help with shock absorption. In cycling, the foot needs only to act as a lever rather than absorb shock. Because your foot and legs aren’t fully weight bearing when cycling either this actually exaggerates the instability of this mid-foot type cycling stance. In cycling, we do not want instability as we’re not having to absorb shock.
This is where your Podiatrist can come into play with improving your lower limb biomechanical alignment for cycling and foot posture. Orthotics from your Podiatrist for cycling will only be designed for cycling and used within your cycling shoes, due to the very unique and specific job they are designed for, as well as being designed for only your foot structure and biomechanical anomaly.
One main issue that we commonly address amongst our cyclist patients is reducing internal tibial rotation. This rotation causes excess load through the knee, rotation of the femur and causes your glutes, hamstrings, hip flexors and quads to work hard against this, again wasting valuable power.
Foot & Shoe Tips for Cyclists
Our tip would be to avoid internet shopping for shoes if possible – nothing beats trying on cycling shoes – fit will vary across brands, so try out as wide a range as possible – shoes will be constructed differently for type of cycling, type of feet and so on and there is no pair of feet on the planet that are absolutely identical.
Your shoes must lock your foot in position and be well fitting without being too tight. Otherwise, this is where we tend to see most of our cycling inefficiency and eventually injury occurring.
Some cycling shoes come with built in forefoot wedges and sometimes even rearfoot posting. Generally, we would advise looking for a ‘neutral’ cycling shoe and if you do need any kind of ‘structural engineering’ your Podiatrist will build this into your prescription custom orthotic. Here at Dubai Podiatry Centre, after a very thorough biomechanical assessment, we will correct your alignment to the precise degree required and also monitor you thereafter.
Contact Us Today
If you’re experiencing any pain or injury, whether sudden or chronic, or even if you’d like a thorough biomechanics assessment to ensure you’re cycling at optimum efficiency, make an appointment with Dubai Podiatry Centre. We’ve been helping the UAE’s cyclists for 15 years and understand the unique stresses and demands of cycling, especially in the heat of the desert! We can be reached on +971 4 3435390.
Written by Michelle Champlin BSc Pod., M.Ch.S., S.R., Ch., (UK)
Valentine’s Day is coming up and given that we are lucky enough to live in the lovely warm climate of Dubai, a romantic barefoot stroll along the beach could well be on the cards.
It’s at times like this that you can become self-conscious of any issues with your feet, whether visible and unsightly – corns, callous, bursas or yellowed toenails; or ailments that nobody else can see but cause you excruciating pain, affecting how you walk – such as heel pain (commonly plantar fasciitis). Don’t let your Valentine’s date be turned off by smelly feet or cracked heels – your Podiatrist has the answer for these turn-offs (and more). Read on for our most common (and easily treated) foot related mood killers.
Are your feet lovely?
Unsightly foot problems that cause you embarrassment, such as discoloured toenails, cracked heels, callous, verrucas or smelly feet aren’t just a cosmetic issue, but may indicate an underlying health issue, cause you pain, or lead to something more problematic in the future. So gentlemen, if your wife thinks you should see a Podiatrist – she’s right (as always). Read on to find out how to get loveable feet.
Toenails
• Yellow Toenails
Toenails may become yellowed with excessive nail polish use, or cracked and flaky with a fungal infection. Toenails yellowed by nail polish use are eventually more likely to become susceptible to fungal infections.
• Ingrown Toenails
Ingrown toenails can be caused by shoes that are too tight in the toe box, or even hosiery pressing into the nail. Some ingrown toenails are just ‘genetic’ – too wide for your toe, or very curved – and your mum or dad may have also experienced problems with painful nails. You will experience pain, redness, inflammation and if left untreated, infection.
Don’t worry – there’s good news!
The good news is that all of these are treatable. There’s no reason to put up with unsightly or painful toenails and at our clinic, we believe in explaining all the options available, the pros and cons, and always aiming for long term, permanent fixes. We do everything we can to treat your toes like we do our own – pain free, gentle and one-off treatments to avoid repeatedly having to see us (much as we hope you enjoy your visit with us, we know you have better things to do with your time than visit the Podiatrist!) Conditions such as yellowed or fungal toenails are a common and easily treated complaint for us to fix, in most cases in just one visit.
Cracked heels, dry skin and secret fungal infections
Sometime the white, dry skin we see on feet is actually a fungal skin infection, unique to the desert climate we live in and harboured in the sand. We see patients who have been moisturizing or buffing their skin and understandably end up frustrated when despite all their best efforts, there is limited improvement. A fungal foot infection can look red and itchy or may also just look like very dry, powdery skin.
I’ve tried over-the-counter lotions, potions and insoles…nothing works
Especially if other treatments have not worked for you, make an appointment with us and we can start the correct treatment straight away to resolve it – we can buff your feet to perfection and also treat the actual underlying fungal infection, as well as advise on the cause and how to prevent it recurring. We see tens of fungal skin infections every single day in the clinic, and after 15 years of podiatry practice in Dubai, we’re experts in the various strains and sometimes deceptive appearances. We love difficult, stubborn or complex cases – it’s what we specialize in at Dubai Podiatry Centre.
Of course, sometimes very dry skin is not due to an underlying fungal infection – as Podiatrists, we’re experts in the whole range of possible causes. We’ll be looking to explore possible undiagnosed thyroid or diabetic conditions, vitamin deficiencies or even a biomechanical anomaly (how you walk and run). Patches of callous or corns tell us a lot about your feet. We work a bit differently at Dubai Podiatry Centre – we forensically analyze every telltale sign on your feet, such as callous, to understand why it is building up, discuss the cause with you and decide an action plan with you.
Foot Pain
You don’t have to put up with foot pain. Your feet are a biomechanical miracle and designed to carry you easily on your recommended 10,000 daily steps. If you suffer frequent or ongoing foot pain, you should get this checked out by a Podiatrist, or your GP may refer you to a Podiatrist. Feet are all we see all day, every day. The most common cause of heel pain we see at our clinic in the UAE is a very painful condition called plantar fasciitis.
The Great News!
There are solutions for foot pain to give you long term, permanent relief. One of the main reasons for plantar fasciitis is when your foot and ankle alignment is ‘out’ – usually your ankle rolling inwards and causing the long arch of your foot to collapse. This also gives the impression of a ‘flat foot’. Not many people have proper ‘flat feet’ but in fact ‘over-pronate’ or roll in too much when they stand or walk. The great news is that this can generally be corrected, mostly with a discrete slim-fit little corrective orthotic (looks like an insole, but is rigid and not available over-the-counter).
What now?
So from flat feet, to heel pain or problematic nails, your first step to healthy feet in Dubai is to give us a call on 04 3435390. Love your feet and they will love you back!