What are the main disadvantages of foot care training?

After a thorough foot care training course, you will be able to care for and massage legs and feet. In this way, you ensure well-being and promote health - also by providing advice. In contrast to podiatry, cosmetic foot care is limited to care and decorative measures on healthy feet.

The main disadvantages of foot care training are:

  1. The completion of the foot care training is not federally recognized, it is a certificate or a course confirmation. There is no recognized and regulated training. It is advisable to compare the various courses on offer.
  2. At certificate level, the course content and admission requirements are generally not regulated and can be determined autonomously by the schools. When choosing a course, make sure that it supports your professional goals. Pay attention to the recommendations of professional associations such as the Swiss Chiropody Association SFPV and the Swiss Professional Association of Chiropody BVFS, which provide a certain level of quality assurance.
  3. In addition to hygiene awareness, clean and careful working methods, a job in foot care also requires a sense of beauty, customer and service orientation. Not everyone has all of these skills and not all of them can be acquired through foot care training.
  4. The training costs of CHF 2,500 to CHF 7,000 for the more extensive training courses are not subsidized by the federal government, as no federal examination is taken. The extra-occupational form often leads to a double burden, but hardly any loss of salary. An electric pedicure chair and various utensils are required to practice the profession independently.
  5. The foot care training does not make you a podiatrist and as a cosmetic pedicurist you are only allowed to work on healthy feet. You are not allowed to treat all types of corns, nail fungus or plantar warts. However, ingrown nails may be treated.

 

Cosmetic chiropodists can open their own practice or work in a practice, a beauty salon, independently or as an employee.

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