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Jun. 27th, 2012 04:41 pmIf I were interested in running such a business, I'd go to a large metro area and open a pedicure salon specifically for diabetics, and call it "Too Sweet Fancy Feet".
Okay, maybe not something quite that cutsie, but still... one of the first things a type-2 diabetic is warned against is having a pedicure because of the dangers of infection since we don't heal well below the knee. But a goodly portion of type-2 diabetics have flexibility difficulties and reaching one's feet to do daily, or weekly, maintenance is difficult. (In my case, it's my back replacement pieces that prevent that). If there was a place that was specifically set up for safe pedicure practises, and advertised so, it'd see business out of the roof. Think about the percentage of our population that is diabetic now, and what the predictions are for the next twenty years.
It'd rock if health awareness put such a place out of business within that twenty years, but for now and the [short] future, there'd be a guarenteed market.
Okay, maybe not something quite that cutsie, but still... one of the first things a type-2 diabetic is warned against is having a pedicure because of the dangers of infection since we don't heal well below the knee. But a goodly portion of type-2 diabetics have flexibility difficulties and reaching one's feet to do daily, or weekly, maintenance is difficult. (In my case, it's my back replacement pieces that prevent that). If there was a place that was specifically set up for safe pedicure practises, and advertised so, it'd see business out of the roof. Think about the percentage of our population that is diabetic now, and what the predictions are for the next twenty years.
It'd rock if health awareness put such a place out of business within that twenty years, but for now and the [short] future, there'd be a guarenteed market.
