Othonyxia

It is a spring or support device that helps prevent or put an end to pain induced by periungual folds.

• Orthonixia : the set of techniques whose common goal is to rehabilitate the nail and restore its functions
  • Steel wire and hook technique
  • Titanian wire technique
  • Resin strip technique
• Indications : Treatment of morphological deformaties of the nail responsible for severe pain syndrome
• Ingrown toenails
  • stage 1
• Embeddded toenails
  • Periungual corns
  • Subungual hematoma
  • Onychogryposis resulting from trauma or micro trauma
  • Hypertrophied folds

Important: These techniques require an in-depth knowledge of the ungual structure, of foot-related ungual pedicure skills and of treatment required to correct nail dystrophy.  Long-term effective treatment can only be carried out successfully by a qualified podiatrist – chiropodist with experience of these varied techniques.

Ingrown toenail stage 2

Trauma-induced atrophied nails