What does pedicure mean?

Pedicure is a Chinese folk art that specializes in repairing and treating foot skin and toenail ailments for people with foot problems.

Forms of pedicure:

1, street roadside art

Often mixed with the jianghu Langzhong, generally take a white cloth shed, the ground on the ground to spread a piece of red cloth, called "leaning against the ground cloth", the top of the repair of down the foot furuncle, foot pads and other flesh, the wall hangs a drawing of a variety of foot disease patterns, white cloth. The white cloth with various pictures of foot diseases is called "point Zhangzi" in the jargon, and it is used to solicit business by pointing and drawing according to the pictures.

Which is often in a stall, the jargon is called "often rely on the ground", have to be able to do "pointed work", that is, good craftsmanship does not cheat people. Those who rush to the market, the jargon called "walking horse cave", it is difficult to avoid doing "fishy work", that is, fooling people to cheat people money.

2, pedicure store

There are formal industry venues and industry norms. The state of the pedicurist to implement industry access, to obtain professional qualification certificate before employment. In addition to pedicure, repair toenails, scraping feet, but also engaged in foot massage, to achieve the role of tendons and blood, relieve fatigue.

The current situation and future development of the pedicure industry:

1, the status quo

After the excavation and finishing, China has a pedicure monographs and pedicure CD-ROM publication, so that the pedicure can be attached importance to the pedicure, pedicure technology has been popularized, and pedicurist's social status can be improved. China's pedicurist has developed from the past street, park pedicure to open store pedicure, there are a number of large-scale chain pedicure store appeared, now there are a number of pedicurist to foreign pedicure.

Pedicure is to be able to deal with a variety of problems on the feet, including repair of toenails, scraping feet, pinching feet, remove dead skin, and so on. Mainly repair foot pads, corns, thick nails, gray nails, ingrown nails, etc., is an important measure to protect human health.

2, the future development

In order to meet consumer demand and international standards, China pedicure should be gradually introduced on the basis of traditional services bunion correction, toe anomalous correction, heel pain, forefoot pain, gait abnormalities, and other common foot disease treatment technology, and ultimately incorporated into the medical industry, the health series by the development of corresponding laws and regulations.

The series of training and education by the medical school, the establishment of an independent podiatry discipline (diagnosis and care), from the foot disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care and popularization of science and education series for foot diseases, to avoid misdiagnosis, omission, indiscriminate treatment and cross-infection and other accidents, so as to appear in podiatry and podiatry clinics, so as to replace the simple repair of the foot pads and toenails of the health care industry.