Telephone appointment

Been waiting on appointment for podiatrist but seemingly to get telephone appointment on 6th Jan does anyone know how this works please

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I had physio over the phone I got my son to video me trying to walk . I was given exercise and appointments over the phone 4 times in the end I asked to be seen he admitted that he hadn’t realised the extent of my problems until he saw me physically. 4 further physio appointments ( seen physically) I have improved a lot.

I’m not sure how they can help if you need insoles you need to be measured etc. I hand an appointment with the hand clinic over the phone they guessed the size of my wrist splint .. too big still waiting to be seen.

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Thanks J1707 I will just have to wait and see what happens I just thought it strange

[KittyJ]

My first podiatry appointment was an assessment to see if they could help or whether I needed to be seen elsewhere and then I got an appointment for treatment from that. Maybe yours will be the same?

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Thanks kittyj that makes sense I suppose

[Gnarli]

At my phone appointment my lovely podiatrist asked how things were going and if there were any issues. She sent me out a sheet of foot exercises and said if a certain area gave me cause for concern to send a photo and brief description to the department email and she would take it from there.

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Thanks Gnarli maybe same for me

[Gnarli in reply to Hidden]

If it's your first appointment it may well be different but I hope you get someone as kind, friendly and knowledgeable

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Thanks Gnarli

[nomoreheels]

Hiya Coisty. I have regular Podiatry appointments but I would think your tel app't will be to assess your issues & from there they'll determine when you can be seen. It may not be straight away if your Pods have a backlog. During lockdown mine were limiting appointments to open wound clinics only for a while, though I was able to attend a couple of months ago. My feet were soooo glad!I hope you're finding it helpful being here.

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Thanks very much nomoreheels for reply very helpful

[embroy]

Same here, I called them, at the moment they haven't opened the Peditory department at our GP surgery, they say it is because of Covid 19, it will be a while, before everything comes normal.

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👍thanks embroy