Section 1: Professional acts.

Chiropodists perform the following professional acts, without prior medical prescription and under the conditions laid down in Article L. 4322-1: 1° Diagnosis and treatment of : a) Mechanical or non-mechanical hyperkeratoses, of various aetiologies or locations ; b) Plantar warts ; c) Ingrown toenails, mechanical or non-mechanical onychopathies and other epidermal or nail disorders of the foot, excluding surgical procedures; 2° Exfoliation and abrasion of the integument and phanera by…

Chiropodists are authorised to renew and, where appropriate, adapt medical prescriptions for foot orthoses that are less than three years old, provided that the physician has not excluded the possibility of renewal and adaptation without a new prescription by expressly stating this on the original prescription. Chiropodists will inform the prescribing doctor or, where applicable, another doctor designated by the patient, of the renewal and, where applicable, the adaptation of…